[mware]

Remember when our special ops had Bin Laden in their sites, and were ordered to stand down by Berger.

Watch, Hunting for Bin Laden, someday.

[swarthyguy]

Yes, I have read Robin Moore’s book, among others.

I didn’t realize Sandy Berger was playing such a pivotal role in Dubya’s administration.

[cake_crumb]

Look, the Democrats are using a communications act signed in 1927 as their basis. OK? During WWII, thank God, our Navy developed an intelligence unit which immediately recognized the problem with not intercepting wireless communications from enemy agents to their home countries. Admittedly, and despite the Warren Commission hype, that Naval Intelligence unit did not exist until it was invented several days following Pearl Harbor. It was developed in response to Pearl Harbor, in defiance of the law.

The thing is that congress was eventually bullied by the ruling powers to overrule the State Department, the source of that 1927 communications privacy act, on several occasions. If not for that, our hands would have been tied and we'd have been unable to win.

President Bush actually has precedent for the expansion of the original Naval Intelligence policies that - in defiance of the law, allowed us to win WWII, within a labyrinth of laws which were eventually enacted to protect Naval Intelligence....all of which happened a couple of years after Navy adopted it's cryptology policy. Little history lesson for you, oversimplified, from an historian who supports a president who also happens to be an historian.

It's not like the media is going to tell you this stuff these days.