Wrong Then, Wrong Now; The Obama administration is repeating Clinton’s national-security errors.

National Review Online ^ | May 29, 2009 | Andrew C. McCarthy

[Sergeant Tim]

On Thursday, Josh Meyer of the Los Angeles Times broke the story that the FBI is edging the CIA out of the business of fighting international terrorism. Under the bureau’s “global justice” initiative, Meyer reported that “FBI agents will have a central role in overseas counter-terrorism cases. They will expand their questioning of suspects and evidence-gathering to try to ensure that criminal prosecutions are an option.” Who needs a War on Terror, or even an “overseas contingency operation,” when all the world’s a crime scene?

If you’re thinking, “Hey, we’ve seen this movie before,” you’re right. Slowly but surely, it’s September 10 again, a retreat into Clinton-era counterterrorism, when radical Islam prosecuted a war while we tried to prosecute radical Islam in court, playing cops-and-robbers while jihadists played for keeps.

In 1993, one jihadist cell bombed the World Trade Center. The FBI had been positioned to prevent the attack: They’d had an informant infiltrate the cell in late 1991. He gathered intelligence about an ongoing bombing plot for months, but in midstream, the bureau ham-handedly switched gears from intelligence-collection to law-enforcement protocols. The informant, spooked at the prospect of becoming a publicly identified witness rather than a never-disclosed secret source, objected. To show him who was boss, the FBI showed him the door. But in booting him, they lost their only window on the cell — which bombed the Twin Towers seven months later.

[Dahoser]

If you’re thinking, “Hey, we’ve seen this movie before,” you’re right. Slowly but surely, it’s September 10 again, a retreat into Clinton-era counterterrorism, when radical Islam prosecuted a war while we tried to prosecute radical Islam in court, playing cops-and-robbers while jihadists played for keeps.

And supported by all the drones who wrongly blame Bush for 9/11.

[Names Ash Housewares]

[353FMG]

How do we know that Clinton and Obama even care for America’s security?

[La Lydia]

So in 1995, the Justice Department raised a regulatory “wall.” The effect was to bar intelligence agents and criminal investigators from “connecting the dots.” More significant, the wall fostered an ethos of risk-aversion. The message to career-minded agents was: “Take heed: The mere hypothetical (and highly unlikely) possibility of civil-liberties violations is of greater concern to us than the potential of jihadist mass-murder attacks.”

That would be the Jamie Gorelick Memorial Wall, and we all know how well that worked out for everyone except her, who went on to be a vice president of Fannie Mae and collect some big bucks, while Fannie circled the drain; and the 9/11 Commission, where she was tasked with reviewing her own role in building the wall that stopped the sharing of information about terrorist activities. Surprise, she made no wrong decisions. Nice work if you can get it. By their works shall thee know them.

[Spok]

“How do we know that Clinton and Obama even care for America’s security?”

Liberals all share the same delusions; America will always be prosperous and safe no matter how they screw things up. They refuse to acknowledge the reality that requires hard work, diligence and courage.

[I got the rope]

Good post. BTTT

[pray4liberty]

Well now, here’s the solution for our nation’s money problems....make it easy for our enemies to blow everybody up!

[BILL_C]

AND IF YOU THINK then you’ll understand but Americans have been trained to accept what they are told by the media, the government spoon feeds the media any lie they want the public to buy.

Welcome to 1984 and you don’t even suspect it.