Posted on 09/20/2005 6:25:39 PM PDT by 4mor3
I'm not linking china and Al Q...
What I'm saying is....
I think that somewhere in the 2.5 terabytes of purged info....there is something to incriminate someone...something that couldnt come out just before an election cycle....
Something that most probably went unoticed by the reasearchers themselves (seeing as they were concentrating on terror subjects)....
Call it an un-intended consequence of data mining...
What ever it was..it was close enough to home to not only pull the plug...but to purge all the info as well...
Of course he's protecting them. Are you kidding me?
If you look through the "preserving the Clinton Legacy" eyeglasses, even Able Danger can be explained in that it was apparently shut down due to Jamie Gorelick's wall between different intelligence agencies and that wall was established to keep those same agencies from putting 2 and 2 together on Clinton on a multitude of counts.
Okay, color me stupid. Why would W go out of his way to protect Clinton?
Devastating article and picture. With a 14-year-old son, I can directly relate. We must never forget ANY of the victims of terrorism.
"If you look through the "preserving the Clinton Legacy" eyeglasses, even Able Danger can be explained in that it was apparently shut down due to Jamie Gorelick's wall between different intelligence agencies and that wall was established to keep those same agencies from putting 2 and 2 together on Clinton on a multitude of counts"
I agree that it could be explained that way. But the connection between the two seems somewhat convoluted to me. It doesn't seem to me that investigators, finding out about presidential wrongdoing, would drop it due to Gorelick's wall. That wall after all, was directed at ordinary citizens. It seems to me that they would either try to cover it up. Or try to bring it out---depending on political affiliation.
The much more direct effect of Gorelick's wall was to completely inhibit all investigations of terrorism. I believe the impetus for Gorelick's wall came from the worldwide organized hard left (WOHL)---a group, Hillary has been a member of in good standing since back in the days when it was simply World Communism. I believe the purpose was to help terrorists. Of course, I do not believe this will ever be proven.
Filegate and associated blackmail. That's the only excuse I can come up with that explains the last 7-8 years politically speaking.
The initial design (the A-12) actually was designed and paid for by the CIA for reconaissance. However, the subsequent difficulties of the B-58 jet and ASG-18 missile gave Lockheed the idea to adapt the A-12 design for continental defense.
And so, it was adapted into the YF-12 design, and was going to have a number of these (93 actually) interceptors stationed stateside, to guard against Russian high-speed, low-level bombers. Their speed would allow them to get to the point of incursion quickly. It was to be armed with the XAIM-47A. Turns out Robert S#!^head McNamara preferred the F-106, and so that was the end of the YF-12 variant.
So Lockheed came back and proposed it as a stategic reconaissance bomber, designated the RS-12. Once again, McNamara saw as a threat to the ailing B-70 project. He declared there was no need for a Mach 3+ weapons delivery platform, but the RS designation was retained "for political reasons." It was at this point that Johnson flubbed his classified speech and referred to the SR, rather than the RS program. As a result, the designation was hastily and officially changed. And while my reference source ("Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird", by Paul F. Crickmore, 1986, Osprey: London) does not explain how it got from "12" to "71", it might have just been for disinformation reasons.
BTW, you bring to mind another Pentagon scandal: the retirement of the Blackbird.
I can only presume that, despite the hoopla, we have something even better. I recall hearing vague things about something called Aurora in the media around that time. My brother-in-law was a blue-suiter and later a Lockheed rep who spent his career working on the high-end Lockheed products (that is how I got this great reference book autographed by many of the pilots, RSO's, techs and even the Det 4 commander). My brother-in-law can "neither confirm nor deny" the existence of Aurora. I only in recent years found out (upon declassification) that my Dad, while at GE, designed the 1st successful reentry heat shield (after others had failed) for the original US spy satellite (Discoverer). So I can only guess that the US had an continues to have all sorts of reconaissance platforms to choose from.
But I agree, I sure miss the SR-71, which I had several of opportunities to observe up close, on the ground and in flight, over the years. What a feat of engineering it remains to this day.
By the way, I highly recommend the reference book I cited in this post, if you have interest in the Blackbird.
"In short, rules are no better than the SOB who comes up with them. "
Or in this case, the SOBs enforcing them.
Thanks for the very informed reply, X. I'll check out Crickmore. I've seen the 'bird on the Intrepid, but never in flight. IMO, just the flat-out coolest work of engineering that ever made it off the drafting table. Too bad the original plan wasn't pursued--might have shortened the Cold War.
Aurora, huh? Interesting. Sounds like you come from a very distinguished defense family.
Well, that's the usual story, and Lord knows the Clintons had access to the files. Of course that begs the question--what's in 'em?
Read this thread:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1488331/posts
Apparently the pressure had some affect as the DOD said the witnesses can now testify. Will ping you to that thread.
"In short, rules are no better than the SOB who comes up with them. Or in this case, the SOBs enforcing them."
Actually, it was the Gorelick memo which led to this mess, unless there's something I'm missing. A fish stinks from the neck up.
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