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

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

[madison10]

Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security J. Michael Waller's testimony before the Subcommitee on Terrorism, Technology & Homeland Security

J. Michael Waller already testified, can he testify again? This is the same bunch that Clarke testified before, correct?

This following is also interesting, especially since they cleared a Muslim chaplain who was/is at Gitmo. May be different chaplains. The quote is from Dr. Waller's testimony.

The nation now finds itself with suspicions about the integrity of certain Muslim chaplains and how one or more may have been able to penetrate one of the nation’s most secure terrorist detention facilities at Guantanamo, Cuba, breaking through the heavy compartmentation that was designed in part to keep the detainees from communicating with one another and with the outside. That particular case is pending in the legal system, but its gravity is magnified by an important fact: the group that vetted the suspect chaplain was founded by a Wahhabi-backed member of the Muslim Brotherhood with a long track record of supporting terrorist leaders from the Egyptian Islamic Jihad to Hezbollah. It shares an office with him and, reportedly, even the same tax identification number.

[visitor]

I like the pics on your homepage and this article confirms your message :^)...rto

btw, I began lurking FR in '97 and registered in '98 and attended "march for justice." this thread is an excellent example of Jim Robinson's goals for FR and as you suggest I will "link away" this thread to my[e-mail]blog

[syriacus]

I'm sending this to the leftist writers I most often complain to about their columns.

I will make a note of whether they continue to lie in defense of Clarke, after they read this...

Thanks again...for providing such a ray of sunshine in a media world of Democrat doom and gloom.

[blackie]

Waller makes it pretty clear ~ good stuff ~ Bump!

We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!

~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~

[AFPhys]

Peach ... I'm going to repost some things you had on:

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1106171/posts

To: Ranger

1. Rep. Christopher Shays, chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, said that in June 2000 Clark told the subcommittee there was "no need for an assessment" of the terrorist threat.

Three national commissions concluded the US needed a comprehensive threat assessment and a national strategy. Shays held 20 hearings pre 9/11 and on June 28, 2000 he asked Mr. Clarke, then serving as Clinton's Special Assistant and National Coordinator, Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counterterrorism, when an all source threat assessment and strategy would be completed.

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

2. In 2000, the Department of Defense Worldwide Conference on Terrorism asked Mr. Clarke's assistant when a national strategy on terrorism would be completed. The assistant responded that a strategy was being developed (in 2000 - the last year of the Clinton presidency). However, no national strategy to combat terrorism was every produced during the Clinton administration.

3. 911 Commissioner Lehman noted to Clarke on Tuesday that his 15 hours of private testimony differed substantially from his public testimony. So substantially that Lehman told Clarke he couldn't believe it. As a result of that, the White House is seeking to declassify whether Clarke lied under oath.

4. On page 127 of Clarke's new book "Against All Enemies", Clarke notes that it's possible that al Qaida operatives in the Phillipes "taught Terry Nichols how to blow up the Oklahoma Federal Building." Intelligence places Nichols there on the same days as Ramzi Yousef, and "we do know that Nichols's bombs did not work before his Philippines stay and were deadly when he returned."

And yet, the Clinton administration focused exclusively on homegrown terrorists, and never talked publicly about this matter. Laurie Mylroie, formerly of the Clinton administration, and others, have since talked about the Iraqi connection to the OKC bombing frequently. Yet your news organization has been largely if not completely silent.

5. Despite Clarke's assertion that he is non-partisan, a few moments research into public records indicates that Clarke has only donated to Democrat's campaigns, never to Republicans.
2 posted on 03/27/2004 9:10:23 AM EST by Peach

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With thanks to you... (I hope you had not already placed this on the present thread...)

[shezza]

Amazing find...you're a research genius! I'm emailing this little gold nugget to everyone I can. Thanks for taking the time and effort to find this. Another nail in the coffin of Dick Clarke's credibility.

[Admin Moderator]

Thank you. Very good find. I bumped it to front page. It needs more exposure.

[blackie]

Clinton will go down in history as our worst president!

We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!

~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~

[shezza]

Ping-a-ling-a-ling!

[demlosers]

I don't know what to say ... Clarke lies with impunity and he gets rewarded.

[Ditto]

Bookmark bump.

[Clovis_Skeptic]

thanx for the ping sis....this is great info...I would imagine Katy Couric will be reading this Monday a.m...lol

[Gothmog]

Great find, thanks

[cookcounty]

I remember very very cleary a story in the Chicago Tribune in June of 2001 in which Rice and others were issuing a warning that Al-Qaeda was likely involved in planning "a large attack" or words to that effect, that it could be domestic.

When, post 9/11, people expressed shock and said "how unexpected" it made me mad. Anyone who was paying attention knew a large attack was very possible.

The problem is, people get their "news" from JenningsBrokawRather and they don't call them the Three Stooges for nothing. They were busy cashing in on viewership with the "amazing shark beaches" stories.

[TopQuark]

the date of June 18, 2001 is listed.

This is true: if you follow the link you provided to the original article and click "Print" at the bottom, the printer-friendly version is displayed in a separate window with the date in it.

[TopQuark]

Oh, and thanks much for the post! Great job!

[cyncooper]

And I live 10 miles from Sen. Frist's office here in Nashville. May have to hand deliver a copy of this to the office Monday.

Could you do that? After all, Frist did raise a concern about Clarke's credibility yesterday...

[Mo1]

McCain could jump ship...

Could .. but I doubt it.

McCain can be a thorn and a pain .. but he is not stupid and if he jumped parties, he'd be ending his political career because the Dems don't give a flying hoot about McCain ... they only care about sticking it to Republicans

[cyncooper]

The question is ........ Why hasn't Mr. J. Michael Waller stepped forward to tell this truth? Why has he remaied silent? Or who is keepig him silent?

He may well be speaking but not getting heard.

My goodness, there has been other documentation from well before 9/11 that verifies the Bush team's account of what they were doing and the nature of Clarke's attitude, interaction, concerns and so forth, but it is almost ALL getting ignored in the mainstreams.

I think the Goss, Frist and Hastert statements, plus commission members' concerns about Clarke's credibility have raised the issue higher and the media has had to report it, and as they dig they will find that indeed, Clarke was singing a different tune than he is now, and that the Bush administration was NOT ignoring the threat of terrorism as has been charged.

And let's not forget Dr. Rice's 60 Minutes appearance tomorrow night. I definitely plan to watch just her segment (not the whole program---ACK!)