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Clinton's parting gift to Bush? Poking the Taliban hornet's nest...and running:

"Today, the United Nations removed all its remaining relief workers from the country, fearing a backlash from the Taliban, who will be almost completely isolated diplomatically when the resolution takes effect in 30 days, a grace period during which the Taliban could avoid sanctions by meeting the Council's demands." - Tough Sanctions Imposed on Taliban Government Split UN, by Barbara Crossette, New York Times, Dec. 20, 2000.

Why did Clinton wait until Dec. 19th, 2000 to push the UN for tougher sanctions against the Taliban?

Clinton's 1999 State Dept. Report on Terrorism shows that his administration knew a great deal about the international terrorist threat...their weapons, locations, history. The UN understood the danger...they pulled their own people out the same day they issued the new threat.

Dec. 18, 2000, the Electoral College elected George W. Bush President of the United States - officially ending the lengthy 2000 election.

Dec. 19, 2000: President Clinton went to the UN to push for tougher sanctions on the Taliban if they didn't hand over Osama Bin Laden.

Dec. 20, 2000: the UN reluctantly issued the threat with the 30 day grace period....to go into effect in time for President Bush's Inaugeration Day on Jan. 20, 2001.

And more:
Last minute regs. putting ANWR and more than 5.6 million acres of federal land and our resources essentially off limits, signing the "Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000" (the "Act") on December 21, 2000..."record funding" - 5 years worth, killed the program created by Congress in 1999 to allow imports of low-cost prescription drugs, repealed the "tough new ethics rules" regarding lobbying he imposed on senior White House staff and other high-level administration appointees when he came into office, chose the UN over US sovereignty by signing us onto the ICC, changed arsenic level regs. for drinking water (and destroyed the "scientific evidence")...among the added 30,000 pages of new federal regulations, awarded $1 billion in grants for inner city housing, relaxed export controls on military grade computers, vandalized government property, appointed 21 of his own Dems. to protect our nation from cybersecurity threats- including Gore advisor Jack Quinn and Wellington Webb.

One morning at the nub end of Bill Clinton's presidency, Clinton chief of staff John Podesta walked into a senior staff meeting in the Roosevelt Room waving a copy of USA Today. Holding the paper aloft, Podesta read the headline out loud, "Clinton actions annoy Bush." The article detailed the new rules and Executive Orders the outgoing President was issuing in his final days, actions aimed in equal measure at locking in Clinton's legacy... and bedeviling his successor. "What's Bush so annoyed about?" Podesta asked with a devilish smile. "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done."
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"We laid a few traps," chirps a happy Clinton aide.....
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Why would Bill Clinton leave so many landmines for the new President, knowing that our national security was at stake?

I think the Founders had Clinton in mind here:

Conducting Foreign Relations Without Authority: The Logan Act

Abstract: The Logan Act was intended to prohibit United States citizens without authority from interfering in relations between the United States and foreign governments. There appear to have been no prosecutions under the Act in its almost 200 year history. However, there have been a number of judicial references to the Act, and it is not uncommon for it to be used as a political weapon. Although attempts have been made to repeal the Act, it remains law and at least a potential sanction to be used against anyone who without authority interferes in the foreign relations of the United States.

I knew what der Schlickmeister was all about waaaaay back during his first campaign....when his campaign had a guy in a chicken suit follow THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES around the country.

One woulda thought that would give American voters a clue as to what they were electing.

And it only got worse from there.

Why did Clinton wait until Dec. 19th, 2000 to push the UN for tougher sanctions against the Taliban?

For the same reason he depleted the military and didn't replenish it — to keep a Republican Administration preoccupied with foreign affairs and rebulding the military — and not pay attention to domestic affairs and undong the damage caused by the Left.

Excellent research!

I was just getting ready to hit the sack, but that is incredible. I am bookmarking it to read it closer in the morning. Good research!!