Posted on 10/03/2001 1:49:22 AM PDT by CommiesOut
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:21 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
All the quotes in my posts are from the article and related links.
"Clinton administration officials recalled that the Saudis feared a backlash from the fundamentalist opponents of the regime" is self-explanatory.
That was in 1996. Obviously Osama has gained much support in the Arab World since then. Virtually every thread that deals with it comes to this conclusion.
I posted this because I fear the Saudis are not as reliable allies as we usually think. I'm not sure of this. I was hoping for additional opinions and evidence.
It's also interesting that your name fits in beautifully with the fact that the Reagan administration in its fight with communism trained and financed Bin Laden and helped place him where he is today.
Let us all please remember that before he became a distinguished member of Clinton's cabinet, that he was a lobbyist for RED China.
Regards,
Islam in Saudi Arabia: Double-edged sword
I'm searching for more.
I thought Berger was a bumbling idiot then (which is why he was bubba's choice) and my opinion has not changed. The same with Bill Richardson. Now they are presented as "experts" by the media.
As for Richardson, how hard was his job? Even then it was half-assed. Anyone knows if you are going to beg with a tin cup, you should put on a pair of sunglasses.
MORE EVIDENCE OF CLINTON'S FAILURE: Fascinating report in the left-wing British paper, the Observer, about the extent of the Clinton administration's responsibility for hobbling our intelligence operations in the last ten years. Vast files of intelligence from Sudan, specifically about Osama bin Laden, were simply ignored or spurned by Clinton officials. According to the Observer, "One senior CIA source admitted last night: 'This represents the worst single intelligence failure in this whole terrible business. It is the key to the whole thing right now. It is reasonable to say that had we had this data we may have had a better chance of preventing the attacks.' He said the blame for the failure lay in the 'irrational hatred' the Clinton administration felt for the source of the proffered intelligence - Sudan, where bin Laden and his leading followers were based from 1992-96. He added that after a slow thaw in relations which began last year, it was only now that the Sudanese information was being properly examined for the first time." Quick, Sandy. Better leak something to the New York Times to spin this one away.
Unable to persuade the Saudis to accept Mr. bin Laden and lacking a case to indict him in U.S. courts at the time, the Clinton administration finally gave up on the capture.
Balk
That's all I can easily find but you get the idea.
The last one is a honey.
I disagree. The lie was the press release last week when Clinton contended he tried everything to get Bin Laden and once missed getting him by and hour or so. I wondered what the complete motivation for planting that story was. We now know. Clinton knew this was coming out so his ever adoring media held this story until the rebuttal was already in print.
Hanssen may have exposed U.S. moles earlier than thought
10/03/2001
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON – Confessed FBI spy Robert Hanssen, revealing new secrets about the damage he did to U.S. national security, has told government debriefers that he gave the Russians the identity of one of Washington's most valuable double agents more than two decades ago, sources said.
Mr. Hanssen's disclosure suggests that he began exposing American-backed agents at least five years earlier than U.S. intelligence officials had feared, and it could rewrite a notorious chapter in Cold War espionage.
Mr. Hanssen says that he exposed the identity of a legendary Soviet spy known by the code name "Top Hat" in about 1980, eight years before the Soviets executed the double agent for espionage, intelligence sources say. The revelation could throw into question the reliability of military secrets that the United States culled from Russia during that time.
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