The perp...
Posted on 09/09/2006 2:36:09 PM PDT by hipaatwo
Via the ABC News blog “Political Punch” comes this message from Michael Scheuer on The Path to 9/11 controversy.
“This morning we received an email from Michael Scheuer, former chief of the Osama bin Laden Unit at the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center (and the previously “Anonymous” author of “Imperial Hubris”) who is clearly no fan of either the Bush nor the Clinton Administrations — nor the 9/11 Commission. He writes the following:
“This whole business over ABC’s movie is amazing. Now Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and a pack of political whores who pass themselves off as ‘historians’ have come out four-square for pre-publication censorship.
“As I have told you, the core of the movie is irrefutably true: the Clinton administration had 10 chances to capture of kill bin Laden. Had the 9/11 Commission not whitewashed events, personal culpability would have been assigned and we as a nation could have moved on to fight al-Qaeda. The Commission turned out to be hack-dominated, however, and ignored the documents that were presented to them, as well as the testimony it received under oath. Instead of telling the American people that the intelligence regarding bin Laden, al-Qaeda and their intentions was abundant, precise, and not acted on, the Commissioners blamed ‘the structure of the intelligence community’ for the failure and then proceeded to wreck the community with a horrendous reform package.
“The solution is really quite simple, I think. Declassify the documents and testimony of the men and women who risked their lives to collect the intelligence that Clinton and his lieutenants failed to act on. Present this information to the American people — and perhaps put some of those officers on TV to answer questions — and then let the chips fall where they may. If the critics of the ABC movie are so confident they are right, they would surely welcome this process.”
Hurrah! Bring it on Bubba! You’ve got the time? We’ve got the facts. Let’s get it all out!
Michael Scheuer was on EVERY show when he was criticizing Bush....I sure hop he goes on Talk Radio shows Monday:;;PAGING HUGH HEWITTT!!
Sandy Burglar DESTROYED some of thoses classified docs that he stole from the Archives!!
Great points...he is not one of my favorite people..BUT, he DOES speak up about all of the chances that Bubba missed to get OBL...and he seems to be the ONLY person, not in Bush's Administration that seems willing to do that..
Like a posted a second ago...he is also on the AQ hit list with Bush, Blair, Steve Emerson and Robert Spencer.
The very idea that That HIDEOUS Eric Alterman is considered an historian means that Michael Scheuer is dead right!!!
I won't gush over this guy, but if he has some facts that can be confirmed, I'll listen to them and draw conclusions. It's not about culling out what you like. It's finding what's out there and then coming to fact based conclusions. Takes some effort.
I'll look for this movie again tomorrow. I'm real curious to see how it treats certain things...like the Gorelick wall. They do have a character named "Jamie."
The name of the movie is On Native Soil- The documentary of the 9/11 commission. narrated by Kevin Costner and Hilary Swank. Bought it yesterday at Sam's Club.
What is so hard to understand here? THis is what makes me so angry. ABC & Disney had the chance to do this perfectly, without room to argue crap. And yet..Is doing something half-way helping ANYONE, in the end?
Sorry, but that is yet another movie. It is not the movie I'm talking about.
Does anyone know anything about this movie? Jamie Goreleck is a character is this movie.
Credible sources advise that democratic party operatives are renting and buying all available copies of this film. It's my understanding that no rentals have been reported as returned to date. /sarc off
Scheuer on HEARTLAND NOW
I thought I saw him on O'Reilly recently. He has some views which I have trouble with, IIRC (Like on Israel). They have a bunch of questionable experts now.
STOP!!! NEVER POST THAT HIDEOUS GUY AGAIN OR I'LL REPORT YOU!!!!!!!!!! I had to stop watching C-Span YEARS ago because of him!!!
HA! After Kasich's first segment, I sent him a nasty letter...telling he hadn't done his homework, and he needs to have Michael Shcuer on for some factual discussion! LOL (I guess I better send him another email, apologizing for my rant!)
Did you hear what he said.....that OF COURSE Bin Ladin would have been dead...if Clinton had let him be gotten...
I think he said something about "his guts being all over Afghanistan"? LOL
Mona Charen was NO help at all...ugh...and Kasich knew he was having on "Mike"...so why didn't he use HIM for that movie segment also.'
NO...don't apologize...he didn't ask him anything about the movie...and SHOULD have known about this letter from Sheurer.
He's a strange bird. Said there were AL Qaeda - Saddam connections in his book, but later said there weren't. I don't trust him, for several reasons.
lol. Radioactive. MSM will ignore that challenge, and so will the Democrats.
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