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

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

[Ethyl]

Why didn't Insight Magazine or J. Michael Waller bring this up again, like FOX News did in their 2002 article?? Where are they now?

[Ethyl]

anybody send to Drudge?

[CedarDave]

I was thinking of the same question. Maybe it was being held back for some reason or another so as have a greater impact at a later date or in some other forum -- Maybe in the next issue of Insight. Who knows? But it is out there now and I hope it can assist in discrediting the megalomaniacal sack of scum.

[CedarDave]

Not me; but maybe one of you two can do so.
(It's Friday night; I'm having too much fun enjoying the food-fight on the hon/mojo/dung beetle thread!)

[cyncooper]

Me too...on the other thread.

LOL

[Steven W.]

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

Also note the funny wording he used before the 9/11 commission when trying to proclaim he was a Republican - he said that the last time he requested a ballot he picked a Republican; that would imply that he is referring to THE 2000 PRIMARY - not the general election. Obviously there is no way to confirm whether he voted for Bush or Gore in the 2000 election but it's also quite likely that he voted for McCain in the 2000 primary, as the only time he'd "request" a ballot (general elections do not take place on separate party ballots).

[Ethyl]

"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."

Ahem, was little dicky clark the reason that we had such a cyber scare around y2k??? Doesn't it all seem to familiar with his thinking (now that we know some of it) that maybe he was behind the push for the Y2k scare?? If you remember the Fed went nuts as well as the public as we were told that we might loose our bank accounts, credit card accounts, we should all be prepared with extra gas and cash etc......... let's look into this. Was he influencing the klintoon admin into this? Another falacy of little dicky clark's imagination? Come on Freepers, who influenced the klintoon admin into this hipocracy? Let's find it.

[cyncooper]

I found an article by Sidney Blumenthal on Salon yesterday (I did link it on another thread). In it he argues that Clarke has "unimpeachable credibility" and says a person can't call Clarke a partisan because he voted for John McCain in the 2000 primary.

So we know he voted McCain. I'll guess in that effort the dems made to vote McCain and oust Bush as the nominee.

Anyway, that is the sum total of proof Clarke and his supporters (when Blumenthal's involved you KNOW we're in the stinky stuff) offer to show he is not a partisan. In other words, their own "proof" makes the opposite case.

[Richard Kimball]

Thanks for finding this article. I just sent it to a rabidly Democrat friend of mine, with the following note:

I found this article from Insight Magazine, dated June 18, 2001, three months before the attacks on the World Trade Center. I'm sending this to you because I know that you are a Democrat, but I also know that you are fair minded, and will at least consider the context of the article, particularly with consideration of the fact that it was written well before we were aware of what was coming.

I would also mention that during my time with the Austin Fire Department, we were briefed about the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. The intent in that attack was to take down both towers. The bomb was supposed to take out a corner support of one building, which would drop one tower into the other, and then both towers would collapse taking out numerous other buildings and several city blocks. The death toll, because the collapses would occur immediately when the towers were fully occupied would have been well over 50,000, as opposed to the 3,000 that were killed. A fact not known by the general public is that the only reason the initial plot did not succeed was because the men delivering the bomb parked the van in the wrong place. According to our briefing, the bomb would have worked as planned had the van been parked at the designated spot.

Additionally, as I have long suspected, Richard Clarke claims in his new book that there was possibly an Al Qaida connection to Oklahoma City, as Terry Nichols was in the Philippines when Ramzi Yousef was, and that he came back from there with the knowledge of how to build the bomb that destroyed the Murrah building. This is not theoretical to me, as Timothy McVeigh's trial revealed that the backup target was the Pickle Federal Building on East 8th Street in Austin. This building was approximately five blocks from my fire station, and in my first in response territory.

I believe that President Bush is taking the most prudent approach to Homeland Security, and that the current panel on government response to terrorism is little but election year grandstanding.

I know that we disagree on politics quite a bit, but I respect your opinion, and would like to get your reaction to this article.

Again, thanks for this great find.

[FairOpinion]

Excellent find.

The link to the article gives the date, confirming it:

http://www.insightmag.com/news/2001/06/18/SpecialReport/Preparing.For.The.Next.Pearl.Harbor.Attack-161098.shtml

[StriperSniper]

Amazing post.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Excellent Richard Clarke refutation ~PING!~

[onyx]

Thank you for the ping.
I need to do a lot of reading
before I post a comment.

[rewrite]

You've got a steak dinner at the Longhorn comin' to Ya' the next time you're in Nashville TN for finding this little jewel...good huntin'!

[BigSkyFreeper]

Thank you for the ping.

You're welcome. :)

[onyx]

I know you're a fabulous researcher,
but you hit the Mother Lode on this one.

[cyncooper]

Thanks, onyx.

:)

[onyx]

This is huge cyn.
I was trying to explain it to husband,
and have now decided to print it for him!

[cyncooper]

I hope your friend reads the article. I like the points you make in your note.

[rewrite]

You have e-mail Rush and Sean with this, haven't you?