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I'm more convinced than ever that Clinton and bin Laden, or whoever is really controlling bin Laden, made some kind of a deal. A thread posted by robnoel, that recounts Freeh's 1999 testimony to Congress just convinces me of it more. Freeh told Congress that the terrorist cells were not a threat. The "Islamic" (in quotes because they booze it up and buy lap dances, hardly the hobbies of "devout Muslims") terrorists were only "fundraising and intelligence gathering," as Freeh described their activities INSIDE THE US, during the long lull that followed the Murrah bombing in OKC in 1995. Freeh instead lectured the politicians about how the "militias" and anti-abortion people were the real domestic terrorism threats. Freeh got a huge counterintelligence budget increase and nearly doubled manpower dedicated to counterintellligence, and spent it all on watching and setting up "militia" guys and watching anti-abortion people. That Freeh testimony alone, in 1999, convinces me that something had to have happened to get the terrorists to stop attacking inside the US from 1995 to 2001, only to pull off the biggest hit ever, only a few months after we were finally rid of Bubba. Clinton leaving is about all that changed, other than his success at alienating the FBI from most of its base of support, undermining the military's readiness to fight, and stripping our air defenses.