[tellw]

Spy satellites haven't been able to find Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden either.

[Gridley_here]

We can thank that wonderful President Jimmy Carter for a lot of this. He was the one who published the names of any foreign nationals overseas who were working with the CIA. No doubt numbers of them were killed because of his revelations.

Of course, Slick Willie didn't do anything to try to re-establish covert observation in other countries. We need to get our spy network set up again.

[KO5A]

This article is further proof that Islama bin Laden has done the US federal government the biggest favor anybody ever did anybody.

Entire new police-state bodies will be created, every appendage of the military-industrial-congressional complex will get huge increases in budget and power, huge tax increases will be welcomed by a brainwashed, supplicant populace crying for - I don't know what exactly- More Arab immigrants?

Liberty is History.

The "war on Terrorism" is made to order for tyranny: a perpetual war (for perpetual profits) that can by definition never be won, and never be lost, but can now- ever be used to justify the increase in government and the decrease of Liberty

[norton]

The US Government literally tries to kill off HUMINT every few years - probably out of distrust for those who might take part in it.
We seem to believe that (a) technology can cure all that needs to be cured, and (b) you only need to 'read other gentlemen's mail' when the fight is going full force.
Remember, we could break Axis codes before WW2 but HUMINT was limited to getting the opinion of an appointed ambassador whenever a question came up.

[Plummz]

It seems to me that two key elements of a good HUMINT operative are loyalty (i.ei, patriotism) and intelligence. It grows more evident everyday to more people, to more intelligent patriotic Americans, the degree to which our intelligence and law enforcement agencies are corrupted -- by drug sales, black ops on citizens, blackmail, arms sales, greed, etc. This country simply will not see a siginificant increase in HUMINT capability until (assuming there is a future point) this deplorable situation is resolved and houses are cleaned.

(Random folks flagged.)

[Dick Bachert]

It BLOWS ME AWAY that former first b**ch, Hitlery, has the balls (which I suspect she DOES!) to say ANYTHING during this time inasmuch it was her fellow criminal, Bill, who laid the groundwork for this outrage.

Did you happen to catch CNN’s Judy Woodruff interview withTom Clancy on the evening of 9/11?

Tom brought up the subject of the CLINTON decimation of US HUMAN INTELLIGENCE capabilities – that going all the way back to Sun Tsu, SPIES are a necessary part of the information gathering process. He mentioned that if we’d had a few spies and spooks out there in this increasingly dangerous world, we MIGHT have gotten one of them close to the perpetrator and been able to interdict the MURDER of perhaps 15,000 Americans in the incredible tragedy we witnessed this morning.

I think it’s safe to say that Clancy knows a bit about the subjects on which he writes.

Tom then tagged CNN by name as one of the news agencies that greeted Clinton’s decimation of the intelligence community with approval, continuing to say that they COULD have spoken out TO OPPOSE HIM but failed to do so. Tom’s rather clear implication was that CNN played a role in today’s catastrophe.

Judy VISIBLY RECOILED – and quickly concluded the interview. Her expression made it clear that she was NOT happy with Tom.

Clancy was RIGHT ON THE MARK and until we DO beef up those assets, it’s gonna happen again – and probably sooner than later.

And do you suppose there is some sinister significance to the fact that this happened on 9-11 (911!)? Are these people THAT sick? Don’t bother responding as that was a rhetorical question.

Let’s all pray – and shed a tear or two -- for the lost firefighters, police officers, innocent citizens and their families. Until this is behind us, we must put aside as many of our partisan differences as our principles will allow.

And we must also pray that our precious Constitution does not become one of the first victims of this SICKENING and senseless act.

THE HORROR! THE H O R R O R!!!!!!!!!!