Posted on 09/12/2001 8:09:25 AM PDT by mgist
The worst, single most tragic day in the history of America has just passed. Tuesday more Americans likely died than all the casualties of the Battle of Antietam on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 1862.
Already the media spin on yesterday's events is relentless. The talking heads are pushing several themes, including:
Now is not the time to point fingers at responsible parties in America, i.e., political figures like Clinton or our own security agencies.
The events of Tuesday are the "worst-case scenario" – the worst is over.
Osama bin Laden is the culprit. On these points of spin, the first one is baloney. Of course we need to find why our security failed. This is basic.
And unless the big media are consulting a psychic better than the one I use, no one knows what the future days, weeks and months may yield.
This is not the worst-case scenario. A worst-case scenario is a 25-megaton nuclear bomb detonated in New York or a full-scale attack against the U.S.! These should not be ruled out.
These dangers can be avoided, we pray, but only if we stop listening to the media idiots that feed us a diet of blow-dried nonsense. Is Katie Couric going to say how bad she feels for the terrorists who were driven to these cowardly acts?
It is the big media and the hack politicians that led us to this nightmarish day.
Smart to Examine Who Failed Us We are Americans, so let's get our feet back on the ground and use common sense.
The media say we shouldn't point fingers. (Funny, isn't it, how the media have spent 30 years pointing fingers at Richard Nixon for his alleged crimes, but when one of their liberal favorites is due for some blame, they feed us the mantras like "Let's move on!" and "No time to point fingers!")
Common sense, in fact, dictates that we need to critically examine the people who are to blame for this incident, both the perpetrators (and if you believe Osama bin Laden was the major mastermind behind this, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I want to sell you) and the people we pay to protect us – that is, our national security agencies.
Without question, these agencies failed miserably in preventing this sophisticated, wide-scale and coordinated attack against America.
Intelligence Agencies Failed Miserably
Tuesday I received an e-mail from a recently retired high-ranking CIA official. I will identify him as "Harry":
Here's what Harry said:
"... Reacting effectively and justly to this [attack] makes us hugely dependent on intell [intelligence] capabilities that failed us miserably. This is an enormous liability, which we shall not be able to fix before we have to react. Payback time for the last eight years!"
He continued: "There were clearly enormous failures here. This operation was ingenious in its simplicity, which would have limited the size (number of people, actions) of the operation and hence detectability. But it could not have been that small for at least a dozen men to hijack four carefully chosen aircraft (routes, fuel load) with carefully coordinated timing. And to get through security with knives big enough to subdue four relatively large crews. If the intell and security systems claim that this challenge is simply too hard for them, they have to be replaced, root and branch. Because this challenge is the challenge. It is now pretty self-evident that claims of reform and adjustment [at the intelligence agencies] to new realities that we've heard over the past eight years or so are hollow."
Of course, it's obvious why the media doesn't want any finger pointing.
Guess who ran the U.S. government and was responsible for our national security for the past eight years?
Yes, you got it, Bill Clinton, Hillary's husband.
Clinton Responsible for Unpreparedness
The Clintons were supported vociferously by the media through the worst imaginable scandals.
During that time I was one of the lead reporters opposing the Clintons. I was mocked and vilified by my colleagues for doing so.
I said throughout that period that Bill Clinton's personal corruption was wholesale and mirrored how he was corrupting America's national security.
I wrote articles and said repeatedly that America, sadly, may end up paying a heavy price for Bill Clinton and the major media's complicity.
I don't believe the worst has passed with the incidents of today.
We remain vulnerable and weak.
Brutally, we witnessed our weakness today.
During eight years, Clinton decimated America's military. Our forces were cut almost in half under his stewardship.
Research and development on all new weapons systems were brought almost to a halt as other nations continued to build. Clinton destroyed nearly our entire arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons. Monsters like Saddam flourished as Clinton bombed aspirin factories, tent cities in Afghanistan and worthless radar stations in the Iraqi desert.
These are open facts, easily verifiable. Clinton, the Ever-Clever Bastard
But Clinton, the ever-clever bastard, was more insidious. Little, systematic changes were undertaken to destroy America's intelligence agencies.
Let me explain. A regular NewsMax reader, "Roger," was a CIA spy in the Mideast.
I met him almost two years ago. Roger wanted to tell me why a gung-ho American quit the CIA in disgust.
Roger said the CIA was not interested in recruiting spies.
Clinton and company knew they could not just tell the CIA to stop recruiting spies. That would look stupid and embarrassing.
So they just changed the rules of how spies are recruited, raising the bar on requirements to such a high degree that the most valuable spies could never meet CIA standards and couldn't work for us.
Previously, I wrote how Clinton effectively stopped the recruitment of Chinese nationals by demanding that only high-ranking embassy officials could be recruited – knowing this is almost impossible. Roger told me that. Roger reminded me again of this today.
He noted that Clinton policies reached their zenith under CIA Director John Deutch and his top assistant, Nora Slatkin. The pair ran Clinton's CIA in the mid-1990s and implemented a "human rights scrub" policy.
Here's how Roger described it in an e-mail Tuesday evening: "Deutch and Nora, Clinton's anti-intelligence plants, implemented a universal 'human rights scrub' of all assets, virtually shutting down operations for 6 months to a year. This was after something happened in Central America (there was an American woman involved who was the common law wife of a commie who went missing there) that got a lot of bad press for the agency.
"After that, each asset had to be certified as being 'clean for human rights violations.'
"What this did was to put off limits, in effect, terrorists, criminals, and anyone else who would have info on these kinds of people."
Roger says the CIA, even under new leadership, has never recovered from the "Human Rights Scrub" policy.
Perhaps that was the intention.
But we, the American people, Congress, and honest media need to examine all of these issues, now and quickly. If we don't, we risk even more grave dangers than those that we just lived through.
No, worst case scenario would be biological agents of a highly contagious nature released into a couple of major cities. A nuke in NY, while devestating is contollable, this would not be.
I agree with all this, but I would say Clinton is the worst. Johnson never helped world communism, like Clinton did.
(As I write this, the former first b**ch is on the Clinton News Network screaming her feigned outrage at the events of yesterday -- caused largely by the OTHER criminal in the family. I think I shall vomit...)
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!!!!!!!!!!
You missed out the most treacherous of them all; the most treasonous -- and worst mass-murderer: Franky-baby Rooseveldt!
But it is for sure that, for decades to come, it will be Our Fraternal Republic's lot to harvest the hurricane-force crop of the Rotten-KKKli'toons' obscenely, treasonously and criminally-sewed wind!
Congratulations.
You got that statement dead to Rights.
Not bad going for a HUHA libbberull on his first time out without his mummy.
[And, yes, the Evil, predatory, treasonous, psychopathological, RICO-mobster, lying, thieving, mass-murdering, serial-rapist gangster bastard son of a Hot-Springs Arkansas whorehouse john -- and/or Tom and/or Dick and/or Harry -- is responsible for yesterday's assault upon Our Nation!]
My brother-in-law called last night and that was the first thing he said. He remembers the Church Committee, and the squeamishness of Americans toward any 'black operations' or 'human intelligence'. He said we ought to dig up Frank Church (we think he's dead) and hang him for allowing America to get into such a vulnerable position. And we also ought to go back and look up who in the Congress voted to allow it to happen!
Interesting, the thoughts again about Clinton and treason. I was down in MS last week and my brother who works for NASA in DC was there also (he's ok, but said that DC was gridlock early yesterday). He said Clinton should have been impeached for TREASON, not for Monica. He was livid over our losses of secure info to the Chinese mainly through Loral.
I am also getting angry at those who are criticizing Bush for not flying directly back to Washington yesterday after the Pentagon attack. HELLO!!! No one knew, with several hundred planes still flying over the country at that time, if there were any more 'suicide bombers' on the way. It is being speculated that the flight that crashed near Pittsburgh had headed west, then turned back East and may have been headed for the White House. I also learned that Bush WAS on the way to Washington after the Trade Center attacks, but was diverted when the plane hit the Pentagon. It is our President's duty to STAY ALIVE to run the country, NOT to be on the TV virtually holding our hands all day. He was busy with much more important things. I was personaly NOT offended when Karen Hughes came out to give the statement (unlike Brian Williams who I thought was going to have a conniption fit!) Bush, Cheney and Condi Rice were exactly where they needed to be, running the Situation Room and dealing with the NSA. I'm glad the Secret Service took Bush in hand and got him to a secure location. No one knew what might be coming next, and they wanted to be ready for any eventuality!
I'm praying for all who died because of this tragedy, and for their families, but also for President Bush who has enormous decisions to make in the weeks and months ahead.
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