Posted on 05/19/2002 9:59:40 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
"We need to know what the White House knew, when they knew it, what they did about it, andYeah, Dick. That's a good one. What did you do with the same information, huh??........
why this didn't come to light till now," House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., said Friday.
By all means, if the democrats really want to have hearings, let's have them! I would very much like to know about what Clinton knew and when *he* knew it, about what the FBI knew (and covered up), about how the Pentagon was bugged, our computers were hacked, about how our nuclear labs "lost" nuclear secrets.
The Dems can't have it both ways. When Governor Ridge warns that further attacks are possible, the Dems claim he's alarming the American people unnecessarily. When the government acts cautiously, unwilling to release a warning after a vague hint of threat, the government is called incompetent. No justice there.
Of course, now we know that there were repeated warnings from FBI field agents that were ignored by the leadership. The question is why the warnings were ignored and what the information was.
Now you've gone and done it. Laid it out on the table. I agree with you 100% on wanting answers to all the stated questions.
By shedding the light of day on some of the unanswered questions we just might start seeing who those people are that are less than patriotic, who the enablers, "moles" and "enemy sympathizers".
I don't see this as a glitch in our intelligence services but rather as a deliberate dismantling of their effectiveness.
Anyone who has ever worked near federal LE (I did) knows that the FBI and CIA have never shared anything with one another. They are most happy when the other agency is sitting with egg on their faces. In general, federal agencies do not share information--it's a territorial pi$$ing contest--your tax dollars at work!
This is not just a federal problem--the problem is just as applicable at the state, county and municipal levels.
It would be nice, considering our current crisis, that this mentality would change, but I seriously doubt it.
I hope it does. It needs to happen.
Thanks, you nailed it there!
LOL...with the Vast LeftWing Medyuh Whore'd, the RATS can have it as many ways as the Sheeple will swallow...MUD
In my not particularly humble opinion, the vast majority of the American public are sheeple--waiting for someone to tell them what to think.
That's right; nor, is it a new problem, either.
I recall in military law enforcement there was the reg beat guys, then came MPI & when something was really serious, in came CID.
CID never discussed anything (outside of an interview/interrogation setting) with MPI; nevermind the reg MPs.
The feeling I got from these Special Agents? (~at least from the POV of a Desk Sgt.)
Was that CID was a very closed organization.
The CID guys didn't trust anyone outside of their office with any details concerning any investigation, whatsoever.
Seems insodoing?
CID would put themselves in the best possible position for the control of leaks &/or compromise(s) -- for any reason -- nearly 100% of the time on any given case.
Just might be these various governmental policing agencies have a pecking order, too; and, for damned good reason(s).
Especially in these highly charged & ultra-politicized times?
[read: the NEED to control various *infestations* of Leftist-Socialist Clintonistas, for example?]
Perfect synch would mean there'd have to be an understanding as to what kind of information would justify...even compell a sharing of information; &, most imporatntly, when one of these exchanges would take place.
*Not* an easy thing to do between individuals (as witnessed here amoung we conservatives); nevermind, huge, bloated bureaucracies the size of what we're speaking about, here.
National good or no national good.
"It would be nice, considering our current crisis, that this mentality would change, but I seriously doubt it."
Yea-yea...
Got to wait for the afterlife for that kind of scenario, Angel. ;^)
...I'm afraid a certain level of discoordination's actually built into the *system*, Learned1; on purpose.
This is how deep this crap goes--I knew a lady who worked for Secret Service. Her husband was an FBI agent. She literally sat there all day with little to do because the SS didn't want her to know anything she could take back to her husband.
I could question her integrity for staying in the job--but hey, that's another subject.
...the *perfect* slogan for America's Liberal-Socialist Party; The Democrats.
See?
You've witnessed this, too.
...that's just the way of it, I'm afraid.
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