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Republicrats are taking care of each other in Able Danger
Town Hall ^ | 9/25/2005 | Mark Tapscott

Posted on 09/24/2005 10:29:28 PM PDT by vadkins

That’s why troubling questions keep coming to mind: How stupid do they think we are? Don’t they realize they are creating more suspicion, not less? Why do Bush people keep protecting Clinton people from public scrutiny?

For a life-long conservative Republican and Bush voter in 2000 and 2004 like yours truly, that last question is especially galling. It was bad enough early in Bush’s first term when he signed an executive order keeping the truth about Bill Clinton’s midnight pardon spree behind closed doors. I swallowed hard and accepted the White House’s executive privilege claim on that one.

But the Able Danger hearing capped a long series of troubling decisions that tortured credulity such as Bush increasing federal spending twice as fast as Clinton, expanding entitlements at a pace only Lyndon Johnson could match, signing a campaign finance law that limits political speech and refusing to veto even the most outrageous examples of congressional pork barreling.

The last straw came the day before William Dugan, an assistant to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said to the Senate panel “I don’t know” when asked if Able Danger had identified Atta. That’s when the Pentagon barred testimony by the five officials who have said they worked on the program and recall seeing the terrorist’s name on a chart during the Clinton administration.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 109th; abledanger; atta; clinton; curtweldon; dod; jaynadavis; mohammadatta; okcbombing; pentagon; rumsfeld; specter; waronterror; weldon
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To: Andy from Beaverton
A picture is worth a thousand words. lol
61 posted on 09/25/2005 7:01:27 AM PDT by verity (Don't let your children grow up to be mainstream media maggots.)
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To: mo

Boeing (helicopters) is big in his district. Could it be that the V22 is in danger?


62 posted on 09/25/2005 7:05:22 AM PDT by GregoryFul
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To: vadkins
Then change starts by getting rid of one of the co-conspirators, if you are so inclined to believe.

The obvious clear and present danger is The Democratic Crime Syndicate.

63 posted on 09/25/2005 7:08:53 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: infidel29

Bingo ! (see my about page)


64 posted on 09/25/2005 7:21:46 AM PDT by investigateworld ( Abortion stops a beating heart.)
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To: YaYa123
... so our enemies wouldn't figure out the depth of our ineptitude.

I believe they've already got that figured out. The obfuscation is to fool the American people - so they don't get out of hand, and do bad things, like look to another political party or something, and throw the bums out.

65 posted on 09/25/2005 7:23:04 AM PDT by GregoryFul
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To: vadkins

66 posted on 09/25/2005 7:25:30 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (There are people in power who are truly evil.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
"This is one thing our government doesn't want us to know about. Question is, do we really want to know?" "

I do. And I want others to know.

67 posted on 09/25/2005 7:27:50 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: Bogolyubski
You've drank too much MSM kool aide. Katrina's follies are bourne by Nagin, Blanco and Landrieau. By their names! Nagin: the nagging do-nothing. Blanco: the blank-brained empty-suit, And Landrieau: a name that combines english land and french water all in a swirl about her ego "I".

Brown at FEMA did a passable job in this storm -- a low B or high C grade. Bush, being fond of the Rumsfeldian A-grade quality executive found that unacceptable. Where Brown was A-grade on being a brown-noser, perhaps. Still -- he did an OKAY job. That is -- better than most would have.

Chertoff? His agency is all over the place by it's construction, and wild by that design which he had nothing to do with. Homeland Secuity is an agency that no organization chart can well describe -- it's off the charts. He runs it well, we see by small things here and there, moving it as well as any one could.

And Bush? Dubya? He continues to do a GREAT job. He ran in and saved lives where Nagin, Blanco and the rest of Louisiana officialdom were absent from and incomptent on all real responsibility, and while Landrieau and the MSM screeched like a flock of pestering jaybirds hectoring a great eagle.

68 posted on 09/25/2005 7:27:57 AM PDT by bvw
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To: bvw
By their names! Nagin: the nagging do-nothing. Blanco: the blank-brained empty-suit, And Landrieau: a name that combines english land and french water all in a swirl about her ego "I".

Almost Biblical, eh?

69 posted on 09/25/2005 7:37:39 AM PDT by GregoryFul
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To: GregoryFul

Real life can be veiwed as a find-a-word puzzle.


70 posted on 09/25/2005 8:05:26 AM PDT by bvw
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To: mylife
How about the Highway Bill?

I am 100% behind the War on Terror and Iraq..

However, even if you exclude the war its still higher than any other President even Clinton (Yikes!)

The Hurricane..hmmm??? Why should America have to pony up to pay for Something Louisiana politicians have known for years, but never did anything about it. Yeah I know Los Angels and San Francisco sit on the San Andres Fault... However, when California had Earthquakes the Feds did not have to fork up the entire cost. The State and insurance companies paid the the bulk of the clean up.

Louisiana is full of corrupt politicians, and I just think the billions we will send them may not end up where they are suppose to go.. Just my two cents..
71 posted on 09/25/2005 8:26:57 AM PDT by Sprite518
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To: EQAndyBuzz

"We complain how the government wants to keep tabs on us. Democrat or Republican, it doesn't matter. When ID cards were mentioned, we went ballistic. When anything that could truly hurt us comes before us, we rise up and say NO."




You have a point. In fact, FEMA is another good example of this, as well. It was only 5-6 years ago (before Y2K) that many people (including some here) thought FEMA had way too much power. If you do a Google of FEMA and "secret government" you'll see post after post of people who were scared to death of what Clinton had in store for this country and FEMA had we had any serious Y2K problems.

Since the hurricanes, it's kind of scary listening to some of these same people demanding we give FEMA even greater authority. If one wants to engage in conspiracy, one could say that the Louisiana Democrats lack of response to Katrina was a deliberate attempt to further expand the power of the federal government.

Besides the irony, it is rather suspicious that a governor who sought to defend her states sovereignty by refusing federal assistance (and fear of Martial Law) would suddenly now claim (along with many others) that Feds need to be even more responsible for the states. This whole thing stinks.


72 posted on 09/25/2005 8:27:02 AM PDT by cwb (Liberalism is the opiate of the *asses)
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To: bvw

Has anyone run these names through the Bible code yet?


73 posted on 09/25/2005 8:57:18 AM PDT by GregoryFul
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To: Reactionary

Yeah. I want to know why 3,000 Americans were murdered by terrorists the government knew were operating on American soil.

And I don't care which party is destroyed because of it.




Careful, some of the "party over principle" folks will jump all over you talking that way.


74 posted on 09/25/2005 9:07:19 AM PDT by trubluolyguy (I am conservative. That is NOT the same thing as Republican. Don't place party over principle.)
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To: vadkins

For months thereafter, Oklahoma City investigative reporter Jayna Davis followed lead after lead and found a mountain of concrete evidence and witnesses who put an Iraqi – Hussain Al-Hussaini - at the bombing scene seconds before and after the explosion.

"They also saw the Iraqi with McVeigh numerous times in the days leading up to the tragedy...[and]... at an Oklahoma City nightclub months before the bombing... But the FBI refused to pursue the evidence...

Guess where Al-Hussaini ended up after Oklahoma City? Living in Boston near Logan Airport with two other Iraqis who provided food catering services to airlines there. Experts have said the 9/11 hijackers probably used weapons previously smuggled aboard by … food services employees."

This is SOP for Clinton. For Bush, it is unacceptable. Hopefully, the coverup is over. We will find out in 10/5, but I think we need to keep calling Senators and Congressmen between now and then. The Pentagon still may not have decided what their 10/5 strategy will be.


75 posted on 09/25/2005 9:09:23 AM PDT by strategofr (What did happen to those 293 boxes of secret FBI files (esp on Senators) Hillary stole?)
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To: mylife

"Ummm ...while some spending ie "no child left behind" was political in aim most of the spending im seeing in this admin is coincedence."

Not true of the transportation bill boondoggle and much other pork. Every Conservative commentator I read agrees on this.


76 posted on 09/25/2005 9:12:32 AM PDT by strategofr (What did happen to those 293 boxes of secret FBI files (esp on Senators) Hillary stole?)
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To: mo

""I'm not sure where Weldon... thinks he's going with this". IMHO Weldon is looking for cash for some constituent project in his district....when he gets it he'll shut up."

You're a fool.


77 posted on 09/25/2005 9:13:33 AM PDT by strategofr (What did happen to those 293 boxes of secret FBI files (esp on Senators) Hillary stole?)
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To: BluH2o

"Just back after being absent from FR for over a week ... so I'm not completely up to date ... however, there's another thread (started two days ago) that states the DoD (Pentagon) has reversed their decision and will allow the witnesses to testify."

Yes, you've got the key bit of information.


78 posted on 09/25/2005 9:15:02 AM PDT by strategofr (What did happen to those 293 boxes of secret FBI files (esp on Senators) Hillary stole?)
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To: vadkins

This thread is depressing. It's sort of like being on a Democratic blog.


79 posted on 09/25/2005 9:18:38 AM PDT by strategofr (What did happen to those 293 boxes of secret FBI files (esp on Senators) Hillary stole?)
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To: vadkins

The bureaucracy has taken the concept of inertia to a whole new level. And to think we laughed at the character of 'Cancer Man.'


80 posted on 09/25/2005 11:35:20 AM PDT by sono
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