[Enchante]

"Yeah, that translates to negligence," charged committee chairman John Conyers, D-Mich.

Conyers, you vicious lying SCUM - you and your fellow Demagogues bear the overwhelming burden of responsibility for setting up the policies and bureaucratic climate in which it was too difficult to "connect the dots" -- and scumbags like Conyers continue to do so to this day, with vicious intemperate attacks on many reasonable govt. efforts to improve the collection, analysis, and dissemination of terrorist-related intel. Let's talk about 8 years of Clintonista incompetence and worse when you start talking about "negligence" Mr. Conyers.

Conyers represents the worst kind of liberal scum in our govt., continually undermining our security yet viciously attacking those who are trying to do the real intel and military work to protect us.

[doug from upland]

Ditto. Conyers is genuine scum.

[roses of sharon]

Speaking of negligence, you should see Conyers district!

This racist anti-American scum lives high on the hog, while his constituents die on the vine, year after year.

[PugetSoundSoldier]

Conyers needs to just listen to President Clinton's own Terror Czar, Richard Clarke:

GORTON: Now, since my yellow light is on, at this point my final question will be this: Assuming that the recommendations that you made on January 25th of 2001, based on Delenda, based on Blue Sky, including aid to the Northern Alliance, which had been an agenda item at this point for two and a half years without any action, assuming that there had been more Predator reconnaissance missions, assuming that that had all been adopted say on January 26th, year 2001, is there the remotest chance that it would have prevented 9/11?

CLARKE: No.

Source

9/11 could have been prevented by the PREVIOUS administration. By that administration's own Terror Czaar's admission, the Bush administration simply couldn't do anything with what was given to them.

9/11 is firmly at the feet of Clinton. Pure and simple.

[Dilbert56]

"Yeah, that translates to negligence," charged committee chairman John Conyers, D-Mich.

What utter nonsense. If I accidentally ran someone over with my car it's not automatically negligence but I certainly could have prevented it. I could have taken a different route, for example. Does Conyers have even one brain cell working (properly)?

I would agree that imposing the Gore-lick wall could be construed as negligence. The results of that action could be anticipated without too much imagination.