Posted on 10/15/2007 9:32:09 AM PDT by Truth29
'WIRE' LAW FAILED LOST GI
10-HOUR DELAY AS FEDS SOUGHT TAP TO TRACK JIMENEZ CAPTORS IN IRAQ
October 15, 2007 -- WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence officials got mired for nearly 10 hours seeking approval to use wiretaps against al Qaeda terrorists suspected of kidnapping Queens soldier Alex Jimenez in Iraq earlier this year, The Post has learned.
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Sometime before dawn, heavily armed al Qaeda gunmen quietly cut through the tangles of concertina wire surrounding the outpost of two Humvees and made a massive and coordinated surprise attack. Four of the soldiers were killed on the spot and three others were taken hostage.
A search to rescue the men was quickly launched. But it soon ground to a halt as lawyers - obeying strict U.S. laws about surveillance - cobbled together the legal grounds for wiretapping the suspected kidnappers. Starting at 10 a.m. on May 15, according to a timeline provided to Congress by the director of national intelligence, lawyers for the National Security Agency met and determined that special approval from the attorney general would be required first. For an excruciating nine hours and 38 minutes, searchers in Iraq waited as U.S. lawyers discussed legal issues and hammered out the "probable cause" necessary for the attorney general to grant such "emergency" permission. Finally, approval was granted and, at 7:38 that night, surveillance began.
"The intelligence community was forced to abandon our soldiers because of the law," a senior congressional staffer with access to the classified case told The Post.
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The body of one was found a few weeks later in the Euphrates River and the terror group Islamic State of Iraq - an al Qaeda offshoot - later claimed in a video that Jimenez and the third soldier had been executed and buried.
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Why haven’t the four lawyers who dithered over this for 4 hours been fired? Where is the call for an investigation? Why aren’t reporters questioning Leaky Leahy about this garbage??????
And they don't even have to work hard to cover up their shameful, bigoted (as in bigoted against US troops) reporting, ------or lack of reporting in this case.
Good question. This should be above the fold on every FLIPPING newspaper in the country, and leading the broadcasts.
Why not?
Blood on their hands is why not.
All of them, every single last outlet of news dissemination and the governmental officials who have done everything in their power to interfere with the ability of our military and intelligence services to prosecute our enemies, every single damned one of them has blood on their hands. And they all know it, so we are not going to hear SQUAT about this.
That is why not.
I can’t even comment. The backspace key is my friend. But, know that without a doubt, I am right there with you in your feelings on this. That’s all I can say.
Something just doesn’t ring true to this story.
Well, I don't know, but I didn't put it in breaking or front page news since it happened in May. However, FISA as currently enacted and planned is getting out troops killed and will put more needlessly at risk. Congress needs to be pounded about this and the dems forced to face the consequences of their actions.
I know what you mean. Perhaps it simply sounds too outlandish. It is the New York Post, and anything that issues forth from the MSM needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
That said, it does sound perfectly plausible in the liberal insanity that passes for governance in many aspects.
Nancy and Harry don’t give a DAMN about our country, our freedoms, or our citizens!!
Whatever they can do to undermine Bush and create headlines with the objective of increasing their power, is ALL that matters to them!
The so-called “patriot” act is an abomination, straight from hell... but here we are talking about someone kidnapped in a COMBAT zone... The same rules do not apply. Nor should they. Nor do U.S. laws or restrictions apply to combat situations. You are deliberately mixing apples and oranges, trying to piddle down our legs and convince us it’s raining. Crawl back under your rock.
Your post was rather garbled and poorly worded; but I'm guessing you don't like it. How come?
Do you know anyone - anyone? - who's "civil rights" have been abused by the Patriot Act?
.....(sound of crickets)
I do not want ANY government to be able to usurp that kind of power. EVER. Can you imagine her Shrilleryness declaring this site and its members terrorists? Can you not imagine the Rats having this sort of power to use against US? NO ONE needs that sort of power, for any reason. And yes, it has been used, not against terror suspects, but against others in this country, including, IIRC, a casino owner in Nevada, with ZERO terrorist ties. Do you REALLY want that? If so, Cuba or China would be heaven to your sort.
Hell NO!
I was thinking if Cindy Sheehan beats Nancy Pelosi in the next election, they could vote Miss Cindy in as Speaker of the House. Hey stranger things have happened.... like Harry Reid as Sen. Majority Leader. He is dumber than the ditch dirt that Cindy camped in, in Crawford Texas.
Specialist Byron Fouty of Wixom, Michigan was the other captured soldier. Senators Karl Lenin and (She’s hardly L’il) Debbie Stabenow of Michigan helped push the restrictive legislation that resulted in Specialist Fouty and the other soldier’s blood on their hands. The “good” terrorist sympathizer senators don’t give a damn either.
BTTT!
Can’t argue with your assesment of the state of current affairs. The story could be true.
>>What idiocy. These restrictions protect the enemy and get our soldiers killed. Those in favor of them are no friends of the USA.<<
I don’t want U.S. citizens wiretapped inside the U.S. without due process.
Has the Bush administration really changed so much that they won’t tap foreign soldiers in a foreign land in a war zone?
If so, that is a serious over reaction to legitimate concerns about at home behavior.
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