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From the looks of it, "Pathway" didn't do Clinton any favors, and thanks to all their demands that it be edited, or "Clintonized", as I prefer to call it, MILLIONS more people had to have watched it then would have otherwise. and I can't imagine that it's harder on Bush then on Clinton. I mean, how can any reasonable assessment blame them equally when Clinton was in office EIGHT YEARS before 9-11, avoiding the issue, and setting up rules and barracades in the entrenched government and gutted intelligence infrastructure that the Bush administration would have to fight against for the short seven months they were there before 9-11. Most striking I think is the fact that by the time Bush took office, the CIA, NSA, FBI and other intelligence entities had almost ZERO human intelligence sources because Clinton cut the intelligence budgets by over 65% during the 90s. Bush HAD NO intelligence infrasturcture to work with by the time he took office. The CIA, NSA, and other intelligence services were gutted for nearly a decade. That can never be overstates in my opinion. It takes years to rebuild that, especially the human intelligence, which takes trust to become fruitful. No BODY can undo eight years of apathy and neglect in seven months. NO BODY!


297 posted on 09/10/2006 8:45:59 PM PDT by TexasPatriot8 (Irrational is the person who is offended by the mention of a God that he doesn't believe exists.)
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Having read "See No Evil" by Robert Baer, I know of what you speak. Mr. Baer is, I think, a contributor on MSNBC now. He was a CIA agent for years, gifted, Arabic speaker, very valuable asset all over the Middle East, even the Beka Valley, a tough spot for Western agents. He was called back to Washington and accused of attempted murder because he was helping Jalal Talabani with a plan to assinate Saddam in 1995. It took 4 years for him to be cleared. He quit the CIA. It had become a "political support group" rather than an "intelligence gathering organization". We lost an important source of "human intelligence" because Clinton cut the budget of the CIA 65% and turned agents into his political flunkies.
562 posted on 09/11/2006 12:41:32 AM PDT by singfreedom ("Victory at all costs,.......for without victory there is no survival."--Churchill--that's "Winston")
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