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Attorneygate and the World Trade Center Bombing
TheVanguard.org ^ | April 16, 2007 | Richard Poe

Posted on 04/17/2007 1:52:10 PM PDT by Richard Poe

I am referring, of course, to the real Attorneygate scandal -- the one that occurred in 1993 -- and to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

Many readers -- especially younger ones -- may be perplexed. Some may be unaware that the Attorneygate scandal and the World Trade Center bombing even had 1993 predecessors. But they did.

On February 26, 1993, Middle Eastern terrorists attacked the World Trade Center with a truck bomb. One month later, on March 24, 1993, Attorney General Janet Reno demanded the resignations of all 93 sitting U.S. Attorneys.

Could these two facts be related? Let's look at the timeline.


January 21, 1993: Bill Clinton is inaugurated President of the United States.

February 26, 1993: A team of Muslim jihadists detonates a truck bomb in an underground garage beneath the north tower of the World Trade Center. The bomb contains more than half a ton of urea nitrate plus a large quantity of deadly hydrogen cyanide. The terrorists plan to undermine the north tower, causing it to fall against the south tower, killing tens of thousands of people, and flooding the area with poisonous hydrogen cyanide gas. (1) Fortunately the plan goes awry. The bomb fails to knock over the north tower, and the poison gas vaporizes in the blast. All the same, thousands of people are injured and six killed.

February 26, 1993: New York Governor Mario Cuomo tells Larry King Live, "[N]ever in my lifetime . . . has this ever happened in the United States. No foreign people or force has ever done this to us. Until now, we were invulnerable." (2)

February 28, 1993: Incredibly, only two days after the World Trade Center attack, federal agents lay siege to the Mount Carmel Center -- a communal living compound of the Branch Davidian religious sect, located near Waco, Texas. On the pretext that sect leader David Koresh had violated weapons laws, federal agents besiege the compound for 51 days. The stand-off ends in slaughter when agents storm the compound. About 80 men, women and children die in the attack, many of them burned alive by a fire of uncertain origin.

March 1, 1993: As the Waco siege gets underway, President Bill Clinton repeatedly downplays the World Trade Center attack in public statements. He purposefully avoids visiting the bomb site. "I would discourage the American people from overreacting to this [the World Trade Center bombing]," he says on March 1. (3)

March 1, 1993: Three days after the World Trade Center bombing -- and one day after the Waco siege begins -- New York State Governor Mario Cuomo has an apparent change of heart. Where before he seemed emotionally overwhelmed by the attack, he now echoes Bill Clinton in downplaying the importance of the World Trade Center bombing. In a March 1 interview on NBC-TV, Cuomo enunciates what will soon become the official Democratic Party line on terrorism; that the real terror threat comes from violent Americans, not violent foreigners. Cuomo tells NBC that, "Americans killing one another with guns" is our nation's biggest security threat. "We're more threatened by ourselves than we are by foreign terrorists," he says. "... We're still the most violent place in the world, not because they do it to us, but because we do it to ourselves. Terrorism is hardly the problem that the instinct for violence and the refusal to acknowledge it ... is to us internally." (4)

March 13, 1993: Janet Reno is sworn in as Attorney General of the United States. In keeping with the new Clinton policy, Reno downplays the threat of foreign terror and states that her top priority will be the protection of abortion clinics from violence. (5)

March 24, 1993: Janet Reno calls for the immediate resignation of all 93 U.S. Attorneys. (6)

March 31, 1993: Mary Jo White is nominated to replace Otto G. Obermaier as U.S. Attorney for New York's Southern District. Commenting upon her appointment, The New York Times notes, "The office's biggest pending case is the prosecution of the men who have been accused of bombing the World Trade Center last month." (7)


Unfortunately, Mary Jo White ended up shirking her obligation to the American people. Acting in concert with Janet Reno, she played a key role in obstructing the FBI's investigation of the World Trade Center bombing.

So says terror expert Laurie Mylroie, a former advisor to President Clinton. In her book The War Against America, Mylroie notes that New York FBI chief James Fox, who headed the investigation of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, strongly suspected Iraqi involvement in the plot, and said so publicly to reporters. Mylroie writes:

"Fox pointed them [journalists] toward Iraqi involvement in the bombing. But it was not long before he got a call from Mary Jo White, who headed the Office of the U.S. Attorney in New York. White was in charge of the prosecutions in the bombing conspiracies, and she asked Fox to stop speaking with the media. Fox remarked to me, `Boy, does she not want state sponsorship addressed.'" (8)

In the end, U.S. Attorney White convicted a handful of low-level terrorists and declared the case closed. The possibility that Iraq or any other foreign government might have taken part in the attack was never seriously considered or investigated. Nevertheless, to this day, many terror experts -- including former CIA director James Woolsey -- believe that James Fox was on the right track, and that the true puppetmasters behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing got off scot-free. (9)


NOTES
1. William S. Cohen, "Preparing for a Grave New World", Washington Post, 26 July 1999: Laurie Mylroie, The War Against America: Saddam Hussein and the World Trade Center Attacks (New York; ReganBooks/HarperCollins, 2001; first edition, American Enterprise Institute, 2000), 87
2. Lisa Anderson and Janet Cawley, "N.Y. Explosion A Nightmare Throughout, Survivors Did Not Panic", Chicago Tribune, 28 February 1993
3. Susan Page, "Clinton: Don't `Overreact'; Urges Calm After Bombing", Newsday (New York City edition), 2 March 1993, 5; John W. Mashek, "White House Feeling Tremors from Bombing", Boston Globe, 2 March 1993, 17; "Clinton Says He Thinks About Personal Safety", Associated Press, 2 March 1993; "Clinton Appeals to Americans: `Don't Overreact' to Bombing", Associated Press, 1 March 1993
4. Walter R. Mears, "Everyday Violence Greater Threat Than Terrorism", Associated Press, 2 March 1993
5. William E. Gibson, "Reno Priority: Stop Violence Outside Clinics", Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL), 12 March 1993, 1A
6. David Johnston, "Attorney General Seeks Resignations from Prosecutors", The New York Times, 24 March 1993; Richard Poe, Attorneygate: Bill Clinton's 1993 Purge of U.S. Attorneys", TheVanguard.org, 14 April 2007
7. Stephen Labaton, "A Woman and a Black Proposed as U.S. Attorneys in New York", The New York Times, 31 March 1993, A1
8. Laurie Mylroie, The War Against America: Saddam Hussein and the World Trade Center Attacks (New York: ReganBooks/HarperCollins, 2001), 213-14
9. Micah Morrison, "The Iraq Connection: Was Saddam involved in Oklahoma City and the first WTC bombing?", The Wall Street Journal, 5 September 2002


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1 posted on 04/17/2007 1:52:16 PM PDT by Richard Poe
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2 posted on 04/17/2007 1:54:00 PM PDT by Richard Poe
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4 posted on 04/17/2007 1:54:47 PM PDT by Richard Poe
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5 posted on 04/17/2007 1:56:50 PM PDT by Richard Poe
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Richard, thanks for posting this; and you’re right, plenty of people, even on FR, don’t know the REAL facts about what happened back then.

A good Freeper NEVER loses a good bookmark, huh? :-)


6 posted on 04/17/2007 1:57:42 PM PDT by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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7 posted on 04/17/2007 1:58:25 PM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (Your mileage may vary - right now my mileage is pretty much aweful.)
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8 posted on 04/17/2007 1:58:57 PM PDT by AprilfromTexas
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9 posted on 04/17/2007 1:59:38 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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10 posted on 04/17/2007 2:00:20 PM PDT by mnehring (McCain '08 -------------------------------------- just kidding...)
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11 posted on 04/17/2007 2:02:00 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (I have a big carbon footprint and I'm not afraid to use it.)
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Nice fireworks Richard...its amazing the info from the 1993 attack as well as TWA 800 that makes things make so much sense now.

The pattern of attacks by Al Qeada is pretty clear, regardless of country...they attack after any major change in power. Democrat or republican, it does not matter, so in 2008-2009 we should be on alert for anything IMO.


12 posted on 04/17/2007 2:02:46 PM PDT by TheBethsterNH (...in Northern Massachusetts, formerly known as New Hampshire.)
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If you are the same Richard Poe, I loved your book, Hillary’s Secret War.

If fact it was your book that led me to Free Republic after I read the forward by Jim Robinson.

Therefore I owe you for more than just a great book!

13 posted on 04/17/2007 2:03:55 PM PDT by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super Walmart for news .)
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Thank you for the ping(s). I can use all the material I can get to deal with the ignorant masses here in NJ.


14 posted on 04/17/2007 2:05:46 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Be careful what you ask for, and even more careful what you demand. Þ)
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If you are the same Richard Poe, I loved your book, Hillary’s Secret War.

Yes, I did write that book. Thank you for buying it!

15 posted on 04/17/2007 2:09:00 PM PDT by Richard Poe
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WOW...I have bookmarked this.

Great research..and I am not surprised at what you found.

Thank you for all of your hard work.


16 posted on 04/17/2007 2:09:04 PM PDT by Txsleuth (Fred Thompson for President)
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Oops. Sorry. I didn't mean to post that ping gif four times.

WOW, and I thought I was just being popular, lol!

 

 

17 posted on 04/17/2007 2:13:12 PM PDT by potlatch
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You Sir are most welcome!

That wasn’t just a plug for a book because you post here, It was a great read that everyone should buy.

18 posted on 04/17/2007 2:19:01 PM PDT by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super Walmart for news .)
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Thanks for this!


19 posted on 04/17/2007 2:19:54 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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One ping only, please. :-)

20 posted on 04/17/2007 2:23:44 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Parker v. DC: the best court decision of the year.)
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