ABC's "The Path to 9/11," the USS Cole and John O'Neill

The Weekly Standard ^ | September 08, 2006 | Daniel McKivergan

[WmShirerAdmirer]

Article "9/11 Miniseries Is Bunk" quoted from the LA Times at

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-bodine8sep08,1,3740515.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

[KosKiller]

Plain and simple - the new meme about the Treason-Crats reaction to P-9/11 is that "they are trying to suppress the truth" and showing that they are Stalinist censors who will stop at nothing. In other words, the Clintonistas reaction simply proves true everything we have been saying about them all along. Republicans withstand daily assaults of lies, hatred and spin from the media and Hollywood. The truth will always win out which is why Republicans can withstand the constant assault and lies from the Left.

[G Larry]

There are enough of the originals out there to ensure public availability soon.

Even if you have to video the video, due to copy protection, it will be good enough to sell.

[Grampa Dave]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1177555/posts

Berger rejected four plans to kill or capture bin Laden
THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | July 24, 2004 | James G. Lakely


Posted on 07/23/2004 11:12:30 PM PDT by neverdem


President Clinton's national security adviser, Samuel R. Berger, rejected four plans to kill or capture Osama bin Laden, worrying once that if the plans failed and al Qaeda launched a counterattack, "we're blamed."

According to the September 11 commission's 567-page report, released Thursday, Mr. Berger was told in June 1999 that U.S. intelligence agents were confident about bin Laden's presence in a terrorist training camp called Tarnak Farms in Afghanistan.


Mr. Berger's "hand-written notes on the meeting paper," the report says, showed that Mr. Berger was worried about injuring or killing civilians located near the camp.

Additionally, "If [bin Laden] responds" to the attack, "we're blamed," Mr. Berger wrote.

The report also says that Richard Clarke, Mr. Berger's expert on counterterrorism, presented that plan to get bin Laden because he was worried about the al Qaeda leader's "ambitions to acquire weapons of mass destruction."

These revelations come as Mr. Berger is under investigation by the Justice Department for smuggling several copies of classified documents that dealt with the Clinton administration's anti-terror policies out of the National Archives.

Commission Co-chairman Lee Hamilton said Thursday, however, that the missing documents Mr. Berger has acknowledged taking doesn't affect "the integrity" of the final report.

According to the report, the first plan of action against bin Laden presented to Mr. Berger was a briefing by CIA Director George J. Tenet on May 1, 1998. Mr. Berger took no action, the report says, because he was "focused most" on legal questions.

[frogjerk]

As ambassador, I had four missions: recover the Cole and her crew; provide security for the burgeoning U.S. presence in Aden; establish a joint Yemeni-American criminal investigation, as agreed between the president of Yemen and FBI Director Louis Freeh; and maintain the Yemeni-American relationship.

A major part of the problem...is treating acts of terror like a "crime" and not an act of war. Even John "How's my tan?" Kerry stated that BJ was wrong to treat terror like "crime".

Barbara Bodine, the time for war was here in the 90's but the Slickster was too "busy".

[nuconvert]

John O'Neill

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1335810/posts

[Doogle]

...????...anyone remember who the lady ambassador was that went against the policy of the United States a few years ago?


Doogle

[CaptRon]

The Cole was also a crime scene, and crew members were witnesses.

This attitude is the crux of the problem. Even years after the fact they have not come to terms that this is a war.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Silly man.

The ABC show is based on the Dems' 9/11 Commission Report. It's not based in reality.

[WmShirerAdmirer]

Do you think these are the notes that Berger pilfered in his pants at the National Archives?

[Doogle]

oh yeah....here it is:

In October of 2000, after entering the Port of Aden off the coast of Yemen, the USS Cole was hit by suicide bomber. The blast killed 17 and injured 35 Americans. O'Neill was sent over to investigate, as head of the FBI team. Accompanying O'Neill to Yemen were over 100 FBI agents, laboratory experts and forensics specialists, as well as FBI Director Louis J. Freeh. From the earliest moments of the investigation, O'Neill was sure Bin Laden was responsible. However, from the start, his efforts to work the case were sabotaged by US ambassador to Yemen, Barbara Bodine. Bodine refused to cooperate in the investigation or to encourage Yemenis to cooperate. Despite repeated death threats against agents, she refused to allow them to carry the type of weapons O'Neill considered adequate. O'Neill reportedly called Louis Freeh in the middle of the night once expressing anxiety about the safety of his men. The clash between O'Neill and Bodine went steadily from bad to worse, peaking when Bodine publicly called O'Neill a liar. Incredibly, Bodine claimed that through her actions, she was merely trying to keep things running smoothly.


Doogle

[Grampa Dave]

I wish that I knew and would go to jail if I knew and said so.

[brwnsuga]

I read an account by a local sailor that said at one time he and some local sailors were coerced by the CO and XO of their ship to take a local sightseeing tour for "good will" while in port in Yemen (this was before the USS Cole incident). Their bus basically sped through the town because it was dangerous, they were instructed that they had to wear civilian clothing and most did not want to go anyway. What do you think of that?

[gaspar]

Barbara Bodine is a serial liar. To verify that statement all a journalist has to do is find the name of the Yemen embassy administrative officer (who handled the FBI team and was astounded by Bodine's actions) and interview him. There were also other embassy officials disgusted by her activities, but the admin officer was closest to the matter. From beginning to end Ambassador Bodine was an obstructionist, and that's the truth.

[Real Cynic No More]

The Cole was also a crime scene

So, acts of war have now been denigrated to be crimes?

[CaptRon]

I read an account by a local sailor that said at one time he and some local sailors were coerced by the CO and XO of their ship to take a local sightseeing tour for "good will" while in port in Yemen (this was before the USS Cole incident). Their bus basically sped through the town because it was dangerous, they were instructed that they had to wear civilian clothing and most did not want to go anyway. What do you think of that?

I think it's a misguided attempt at diplomacy that would not have had the desired effect on the locals.

Had anything happened to these men it probably be more in line with a 'crime scene' than a premeditated attack on a US Naval vessel, which historically would be considered and act of war.

[Verginius Rufus]

The only problem I have with the Weekly Standard piece is that it quotes Richard Clarke as if he were a reliable source.

Barbara Bodine is a UCSB alumna and was born in 1948. Joseph Wilson IV is a UCSB alumnus and was born in 1949. I wonder if they are old friends.

[Gritty]

The Cole was also a crime scene, and crew members were witnesses.

This was as far as I needed to read to see where the real problem was.

The Stalin Clinton Administration treated and still does treat everything in this war as a "crime", including this mini-series!

"Denial" is not a river in Yemen...

[Bokababe]

Here's where to send a message to the ABC Network to tell them you want "The Path to 9/11" to air intact and not edited for political correctness: http://abc.go.com/site/contactus.html

[BIGLOOK]

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2005 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2008 TDD (202) 514-1888 FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR SAMUEL BERGER PLEADS GUILTY TO KNOWINGLY REMOVING CLASSIFIED INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Assistant Attorney General Christopher A. Wray of the Criminal Division announced today that former National Security Advisor Samuel R. Berger has pleaded guilty to a charge of knowingly removing classified documents from the National Archives and Records Administration.

Berger entered a guilty plea this morning at federal court in Washington, D.C. to one count of violating 18 U.S.C. § 1924, a misdemeanor. As part of his plea agreement, Berger has agreed to cooperate with the government concerning his activities at the National Archives.

According to the facts admitted during his guilty plea, Berger was reviewing classified documents at the National Archives in July, September and October of 2003 in connection with requests for documents made by the National Commission Investigating Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9-11 Commission). On September 2, 2003, and again on October 2nd, Berger concealed and removed a total of five copies of classified documents from the Archives. The documents were different versions of a single document. Berger, who possessed a United States government security clearance and was aware of the laws and rules regarding classified documents, knew he was not authorized to remove the classified documents from the Archives.

Berger took the documents to his office in the District of Columbia, where he destroyed three of the copies. Soon after the October visit, the Archives discovered that documents were missing and, two days later, contacted Berger. Initially, Berger did not tell the Archives staff that he had taken the documents but later that night told Archives staff that he had “accidentally misfiled” two of them. The next day, he returned to Archives staff the two remaining copies of the five documents he had taken during the September and October visits. Each of the five copies of the document was produced to the 9-11 Commission in due course.

In his plea, Berger also admitted that he concealed and removed his handwritten notes from the Archives prior to a classification review, in violation of Archives rules and procedures. Those notes have been returned to the government.

Berger faces a maximum sentence of up to one year in jail, a $100,000 fine and a year of supervised release. According to the plea agreement, Berger has agreed to cooperate with the government and to surrender his security clearance.

The case was investigated by Special Agents of the Washington Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Inspector General of the National Archives and Records Administration, and was prosecuted by Criminal Division Trial Attorneys Thomas Reilly of the Counterespionage Section, which is headed by Section Chief John Dion, and Howard Sklamberg of the Public Integrity Section, which is headed by Section Chief Noel Hillman.

April fools!