TERROR TAPE WARN OF BUSH, CHENEY CONSEQUENCE; ABC WITHHELD PORTIONS FROM CIA

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[handy]

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TERROR TAPE WARN OF BUSH, CHENEY CONSEQUENCE; ABC WITHHELD PORTIONS FROM CIA

**Exclusive**

ABCNEWS withheld portions of an alarming new al Qaeda videotape which warns the next terror attack will dwarf 9/11 from the CIA when they submitted the video for analysis, a top federal source tells the DRUDGE REPORT.

The CIA and FBI late Wednesday authenticated the tape, federal sources tell DRUDGE. ABCNEWS has been informed of the government's standing.

"What took place on September 11 was but the opening salvo of the global war on America and that our Lord willing, the magnitude and ferocity of what is coming your way will make you forget all about September 11," the man, whose face is covered by a headdress, warns in the video. "After decades of American tyranny, now it's your turn to die."

ABCNEWS submitted portions of the video threat to the FBI and CIA on Monday for analysis, top government sources tell DRUDGE, after obtaining the tape from a source in Pakistan.

A top goverment source said from Washington that ABC withheld the final 15 minutes of the tape from the CIA -- the portion of the tape where the man warns of retribution for Americans electing Bush and Cheney.

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"You are guilty, guilty, guilty.  You're as guilty as Bush and Cheney.  You're as guilty as Rumsfeld and Ashcroft and Powell...," the man states.

He goes on to warn of an upcoming horror: "The streets will run with blood," and "America will mourn in silence" because they will be unable to count the number of the dead.

"People of America, that was the verdict now for the sentencing: as participants and partners in the crimes of the regime, you too shall pay the price for the blood that has been spilled."

One ABC source, who demanded anonymity, said Thursday morning, the network was struggling to find a correct journalistic "balance" before airing any story on the video.

"This is not something you just throw out there while people are voting," the ABC source explained.

[Peach]

Haven't heard it mentioned on FNC yet.

[BurbankKarl]

where is the part about Same Sex Marriages in Mass.? I read before that was another reason to attack to US.


I am sure that will be edited out.

[GoLightly]

If we get hit, ABC has taken on a huge legal liability.

[cake_crumb]

"The MSM did the same thing by withholding the true horror of 9/11. They treat the public as children who can't be told the whole complete morons who can be easily manipulated by being spoonfed their twisted version of the truth. What insufferable arrogance."

There, fixed it for you. We peopns are dumber than trained chimps to them, no matter how much education, experience and other credentials we have proving the contrary.

Lately, the arrogance of the media is likely to be terminal. To us.

[CAluvdubya]

Military jets and helis?

Sometimes I just scare myself

[CAluvdubya]

Military jets and helis?

Sometimes I just scare myself

[handy]

Do we really want any news source in the U.S. to give air time to world terrorists to blast their threats about an election?

What about next time? Five terrorists make ads threatening whatever on an election result?

We should not provide air time that allows terrorists to become a part of our elections. In fact, it should be a law because there will always be the odd station wanting an exclusive no matter what it does to our American freedoms.

I'm not sure I fault ABC for not airing the video. That's a different discussion.

But do fault them for not giving the whole tape to the CIA. If this is story is true, which is still hard for me to believe.

[Conservative Texan Mom]

I can't remember what country this was in, but a couple of years ago an incubent was re-elected after a failed assasination attempt. Apparently the attempt gave him a boost. Not long after, the opposition began claiming that he set it up as a ploy to help himself out. Don't know what ever came of it?

I can hear Terry McAuliffe now, "Karl Rove did it!"
MORON
ABC should be diced up, marinated in their own bile and crap, and sizzled to ash with a blow torch!

[Donna Lee Nardo]

I think the feds should announce the indictment of sandy burgler on election eve, don't you? Let's tear a page right out of the evil demdimwit playbook. ;)

[Chad Fairbanks]

Oh man. ABC is in deep kimchi... No two ways about it. So is Kerry if this gets any play...

[the invisib1e hand]

idunnomaybeitsmebut...isn't the government big enough to get the tape in its entirety from ABC?

[rang1995]

How dare they! The religion of crap and ABC!!!

[SeaBiscuit]

I don't know about all this, something has got to be phony. If this tape were ligit, then the cia, fbi, ss, homeland sec. would be on abc in a second to hand over the entire tape. something smells here. I have suspicions this tape is not genuine, not directly from whomever is running al qaida. Maybe this nutjob from cal is behind it in an attempt to scare voters away from GWB, and the fbi have had their eyes on him, but I don't think he is the real article. there is definitly something more going on here than we are aware. no doubt politically motivated but not what it appears to be.

[PhiKapMom]

The Government has informed ABC News that they know the tape is missing the 15 minutes -- bet that the word is in legal terms the way that reads.

[SueAngel]

There will be NO mention of this on tonight's network news. Instead they will lead with the following: "In a startling development which could turn Tuesday's Presidential election on its ear, ABCCBSNBCCNN News learned today that the FBI has opened a criminal investigation into the issue of whether the Bush Administration has illegally awarded billions of dollars in Iraqi reconstruction contracts to Halliburton..."

You are SO RIGHT!!!

[Muzzle_em]

I agree with everyone here who thinks this doesn't pass the "smell test."
I think this is nothing but a media ploy.
It is amazing how they are now willing to trade their credibility and go down in flames with NYT and CBS just because they hate GW so much.

ON the other hand, I really don't know if this would cause Bush to win or lose. The sheeple in this country are SO unpredictable.

[Grampa Dave]

The Maggots in charge of ABC's NOTNEWS are so arrogant. They live in the 9/10 world with Kerry where Islamoterrorism is a nuisance.

[California74]

"Which ABC just violated."


ALLEGEDLY violated. I am not convinced they violated any national security laws. They gave it to the CIA first, didn't they? What motive would they have to edit the tape from the CIA? Too much to lose. Makes no sense.

[gulf1609]

Even more on Morton Halperin, Mark Halperin's father. Seems like Mark is just helping dad out! This is just an excerpt, link at the end.

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The Southampton Meeting

To the extent that the Shadow Party can be said to have an official launch date, July 17, 2003 probably fits the bill.[10] On that day, a team of political strategists, wealthy donors, leftwing labor leaders and other Democrat activists gathered at Soros’ Southampton beach house on Long Island. Aside from Soros, the most noteworthy attendee was Morton H. Halperin. Soros had hired Halperin in February 2002, to head the Washington office of his tax-exempt Open Society Institute – part of Soros’ global network of Open Society institutes and foundations located in more than 50 countries around the world. Given Halperin’s history, the appointment revealed much about Soros’ political goals.

Halperin has a long and controversial track record in the world of Washington intrigue, dating back to the Johnson Administration. Journalists sympathetic to Halperin’s leftwing sentiments give him high marks for blowing the whistle on the Vietnam War, but his activism helped undermine America’s war effort and contributed to the Communist victory.

The Johnson Defense Department placed Halperin in charge of compiling a secret history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, based on classified documents. This secret history later emerged into public view as the so-called “Pentagon Papers.” Halperin and his deputy Leslie Gelb assigned much of the writing to leftwing opponents of the war, such as Daniel Ellsberg who, despite his background as a former Marine and a military analyst for the Rand Corporation, was already evolving into a New Left radical. In his memoir, Secrets, Ellsberg admits to concluding, as early as 1967, that, “we were not fighting on the wrong side; we were the wrong side” in the Vietnam War. [11] Evidently Ellsberg had come to view Ho Chi Minh’s Communist regime as the wave of the future.

With Halperin’s tacit encouragement – and perhaps active collusion – Ellsberg stole the secret history and released it to The New York Times, which published the documents as “The Pentagon Papers” in June 1971.[12] This was a violation of the Espionage Act, which forbids the removal of classified documents from government buildings. Not surprisingly, “The Pentagon Papers” echoed Halperin’s long-standing position that the Vietnam War was unwinnable, and ridiculed Presidents Kennedy and Johnson for stubbornly refusing to heed those of their advisors who shared this opinion. It marked a turning point in America’s failed effort to keep Indo-China from falling to the Communists. The government dropped its case against Ellsberg as Nixon’s power collapsed during the Watergate intrigues.

Halperin went on to become the director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1984 to 1992 and head of its "National Security Archives." From this position, he waged open war against U.S. intelligence services, through the courts and the press, seeking to strip the government of virtually any power to investigate, monitor or obstruct subversive elements and their activities.[13] It did not take long for Halperin to go the next logical step and argue for abolishing America’s intelligence services altogether. “Using secret intelligence agencies to defend a constitutional republic is akin to the ancient medical practice of employing leeches to take blood from feverish patients. The intent is therapeutic, but in the long run the cure is more deadly than the disease,” Halperin wrote in his 1976 book, The Lawless State: The Crimes of the U.S. Intelligence Agencies.[14]

In a March 21, 1987 article in The Nation, Halperin expanded on this theme and, like Ellsberg, took the position that America was the real villain in the Cold War. He wrote, “Secrecy does not serve national security. Covert operations are incompatible with constitutional government and should be abolished.”[15] This was a call for unilateral disarming of our intelligence services to match the universal disarmament of our military which has long been a staple of the radical agenda.

Evidently, Soros wishes Halperin to continue his war on America’s intelligence services. According to an Open Society Institute press release, one of Halperin’s principal assignments on the Soros team is to battle “post-September 11 policies that threaten the civil liberties of Americans.” [16]

The Plan

No one has published a full list of the attendees at Soros’ July 17 meeting in Southampton, at which Soros laid out his plan to defeat President Bush.[17] However, a partial list is available in accounts that appeared in the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. These include an impressive array of former Clinton administration officials, among them Halperin. Prior to working for Soros, Halperin had served eight years under Clinton, first as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and finally as Director of Policy Planning for the Clinton State Department.

The guests at Soros’ beach house also included Clinton’s former chief of staff John Podesta; Jeremy Rosner, former special advisor to Clinton’s Secretary of State Madeline Albright; Robert Boorstin, a former advisor to Clinton’s Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin; and Steven Rosenthal, a leftwing union leader who served the Clinton White House as an advisor on union affairs to Labor Secretary Robert Reich. Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club, and Ellen Malcolm, founder and president of the pro-abortion lobby Emily’s List, also attended the meeting, as did such prominent Democrat donors as auto insurance mogul Peter B. Lewis; founder and CEO of RealNetworks Rob Glaser; Taco Bell heir Rob McKay; and Benson & Hedges tobacco heirs Lewis and Dorothy Cullman.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15392

[MonaMars]

"If the tape really says "If you vote for Bush, we will attack", Bush would crush Kerry in the election..."

The cynic in me says not necessarily. The courageous want to live free. The craven just want to live. And we seem to have equal numbers of each these days.