Preparing for The Next Pearl Harbor Attack (JUNE 2001, Bush team addressing terrorism threat)

Insight Magazine ^ | June 18, 2001 | J. Michael Waller

[JusPasenThru]

It was said that you could fool all of the people some of the time, but that was before the Internet and Free Republic. Good work!

[ThePythonicCow]

calling everyone else liars. Unbelievable!

Actually, quite believable. The number one instinct of leftists under stress (as most 'Rats are today <grin>) is to accuse others of what they fear being exposed for.

The old joke How do you know when a reprobate is lying shouldn't be:

- when he moves his lips

but instead it should be:

when he accuses you of lying.

[chance33_98]

And then there's the "electronic Pearl Harbor," a phrase coined by Richard Clarke,

Funny how those du types keep using this line (or a modification of it) to state that Bush and pnac planned 9/11 - they think that because some mentioned Pearl harbour, and then something bad happened, that both were related.

The illogic of the left escapes me. But then, so do women most the time too...

[ThePythonicCow]

Curse you, Hog Pilot. You just cost me another half hour of sleep <grin>. That you posted to J. Michael Waller's articles in Insight Magazine is a good one. Lots of good reading.

[OpusatFR]

May I suggest that everyone take the points from this article and mail the editors of their papers? PDQ!

[lysie]

Excellent.

[radu]

Awesome find, cyncooper!! Gonna have to pull up my media e-mail list and send this out, whether they like it or not! :-)

Tonk, blackie, looky here!!!!!!!

[Imal]

Great find. Nicely done.

[captbarney]

Agree. Great find. All FR's should send to as many news sites possible

[Peach]

You nailed it with regarding to Clarke's strange wording on this matter.

[Liberty Valance]

Trying to coordinate Federal agencies before 9/11 must have been like herding cats. Richard Clark seems to be suffering from selective memory with his new book offering.

[marway]

Excellent find... I couldn't believe what I was reading (well.. yes I could) ... my heart just kept beating faster and faster! Will pass along to all I know. Exciting stuff!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks, XHogPilot, cyncooper.
Our press continues to undermine our national security by printing readily verifiable lies - opinions - without investigating, and without providing readily verifiable facts.
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President George W. Bush underscored his concern in a May 8 statement: "The threat of chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons being used against the United States - while not immediate - is very real."

With Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld ripping apart obsolete defense doctrines to keep the United States on the cutting edge of world leadership, others, with a much lower profile, are working on a more fundamental issue: homeland security.

After years of dithering under Clinton, say defense specialists, the Bush White House is taking the matter seriously. "Virtually every vital service: water supplies, transportation, energy, banking and finance, telecommunications, public health - all of these rely on computer and fiber-optic lines, the switches and routers that come from them," notes National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice. These are vulnerable. In the short time since his inauguration in January, Bush has instructed government offices to coordinate for homeland security and defense, and assigned Vice President Richard Cheney to head a group to draft a national terrorism-response plan by October 1.

~ June 18, 2001 ~

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Dec. 18, 2000: the Electoral College officially elected George W. Bush - America's 43rd President.

Dec. 19, 2000: Clinton went to Kofi Annan and asked that the UN place tougher sanctions on Afghanistan if the Taliban didn't hand over Bin Laden in 30 days. Clinton and Annan both knew how the Taliban and Bin Laden would react to this - Kofi, who didn't delay for 6 months, allowed the vote immediately, pulled the UN workers out of Afghanistan as he announced the new threat to the Taliban:

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"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.

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Dec. 20,  2000: UN announced tougher sanctions on the Taliban - to go into effect in 30 days - just in time for

January 20,  2001: President-elect GW Bush's Inaugeration Day.

Clinton appeased the terrorists up to the day he knew Al Gore had no chance of winning election 2000, then, as he was escaping out the "back door" of the White House, he provoked Bin Laden (one of many messes left for our new President) intending to do him harm, and willfully endangering our nation for vanity's sake, imho.

 

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"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 (in areas like environmental protection) 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." Link.

"We laid a few traps," chirps a happy Clinton aide.....

[MEG33]

FYI

[snooker]

Excellent find ... thanks

[RobFromGa]

bttt for a great find...

[madison10]

"We laid a few traps," chirps a happy Clinton aide.....

Creeps.

From the June 18th article it seems as if Clarke was heading in the wrong direction. (of course hind-sight is 20/20) Whereas the President & Mr. Rumsfeld were looking for major attacks via weapons of all sorts, Clarke was concentrating on the "electronic Pearl Harbor" and said, "for the first time in our history, the armed forces cannot defend us from the foreign threat. They cannot surround the power grid..." He was correct in light of the 2003 Blackout, but NOT in light of Sept. 11, 2001. The terrorists hit the infrastructure temporarily by knocking down the towers. Clarke ignored the obvious.

BTW, how could Clarke forget he said this stuff about security, the whole article seems to be about him. :O

[syriacus]

This is great!!! What a find!!! Thanks for providing such a clear rebuttal to Clarke.

When we deal with simple minded folks, we need to have clear, simple rebuttals. Perhaps this is available in Braille.... to pass out to all the blind media folks. :-)

[syriacus]

Clark answered "No assessment has been done, and there is no need for an assessment. I know the threat."

What an egomaniac!!

[Ima Lurker]

Fantastic find....you deserve a medal. I sent this to our local talk radio station.