Posted on 09/18/2001 4:50:17 AM PDT by Liz
Liberals....without exception, the source of all our woes.
BUMP
O'Reilly claims he's spoken with former agents, and they said station chiefs stopped asking for permission, because they knew it wouldn't be forthcoming. O'Reilly further claims the CIA's poor performance is as a result of demoralization - because Washington ties their hands. Can't say I disagree with any of that, based on my limited knowledge.
MG: You get into a big tiff with Newt, don't you?
RT: My worst fight with him was about the CIA matter in Guatemala. We'd actually gotten along fairly well until then. But there is no having a relationship with Newt Gingrich. If he sees an opportunity to gain a single step by your destruction, he'll take it.
It was a terrible time because I felt I had done the right thing. I had never before had the experience where I knew I had done the right thing but I was paying a negative price for it. People have said to me, "You must have really agonized over this; you got information that a CIA operative had been involved in murder; the CIA continued to pay the person and hid the crime; you must have agonized about revealing the truth." But the fact is, I didn't think about it for a minute. I got this information that this person had been involved in a murder. The woman gave me this compelling case. She had chained herself to a statue in Guatemala City. She was now on a hunger strike outside the White House. And all she wanted to know is whether her husband was dead. This American citizen, suddenly her husband has disappeared, she can't get any help, there are other suspicious cases. I never hesitated. But I felt abandoned and in real jeopardy. The Clinton Administration offered me almost no protection, although I knew they agreed with what I did.
People were cowered by the intelligence community, which was an America I was unfamiliar with. The intelligence community genuinely has intimidated parts of this government. People would prefer to remain apart from it. And I felt a lot of friends in the Congress abandoned me, too.
Essentially Toricelli was saying that the reputation and good(?) name of the government is more important than the lives of a few thousand Americans. I thought O'Reilly was going to smack him. I wish he had.
I am furious O'Reilly even had the creep on to spout his liberal nonsense.
They are neither. They are in it strictly for themselves. Mostly for babes, money and to feed there massive egos. If the public should benefit from their decisions, it is purely an unintended consequence.
Here's a useful search hint: do your article search on a unique word within the title. For example, searching on "crippled" would have turned up the previously posted article.
Regardless...thanks for dropping it into Breaking News. It's important enough to be there.
They are neither. They are in it strictly for themselves. Mostly for babes, money and to feed
there massive egos. If the public should benefit from their decisions, it is purely an unintended consequence.
Perhaps its time we resurrect the Aliens and Sedition Act.
I DID do that.....used headline's key words.....even searched Tom Clancy.......
Nevertheless, this post was timed well .....a good read with breakfast.
At creating and inspiring the best damn excuses! Excuses are really a form of intelligence, doncha know. Yeah, that's the ticket ... the "product" is EXCUSES!
SECTION I. Be it enacted . . ., That whenever there shall be a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion shall be perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government, and the President of the United States shall make public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being males of the age of fourteen years and upwards, who shall be within the United States, and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed, as alien enemies.
And the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby authorized, in any event, as aforesaid, by his proclamation thereof, or other public act, to direct the conduct to be observed, on the part of the United States, towards the aliens who shall become liable, as aforesaid; the manner and degree of the restraint to which they shall be subject, and in what cases, and upon what security their residence shall be permitted, and to provide for the removal of those, who, not being permitted to reside within the United States, shall refuse or neglect to depart therefrom; and to establish any other regulations which shall be found necessary in the premises and for the public safety:
Provided, that aliens resident within the United States, who shall become liable as enemies, in the manner aforesaid, and who shall not be chargeable with actual hostility, or other crime against the public safety, shall be allowed, for the recovery, disposal, and removal of their goods and effects, and for their departure, the full time which is, or shall be stipulated by any treaty, where any shall have been between the United States, and the hostile nation or government, of which they shall be natives, citizens, denizens or subjects: and when no such treaty shall have existed, the President of the United States may ascertain and declare such reasonable time as may be consistent with the public safety,and according to the dictates of humanity and national hospitality.
This statement gives the terrorists too much credit. It assumes they are NOT a bunch of insane, possessed idiots seeking revenge on someone that has done them no wrong at all. Everytime the media interviews an expert in Islam or an expert in why these people hate us, I am always releived to find that their hate is baseless. They hate us for no good reason at all. It further justifies our retaliation.
Boy is this true and a lot of paranoid freepers need to consider it.
Baseless, silly. dangerously deluded thinking. Their are "political" terrorists who resort to terror as a last resort when none other are available. I'd put the IRA in that group. This one you can stop by providing an honest political and social remedy.
Then there are two other classes, at least, one being the kind we are now up against with its faction among the Arabs -- suicidal zealot -- the culture of the Assassin. The other being the sociopaths like the UNABOMBER.
In those cases, the terrorist is motivated by the love of terror, of death, of infliction of suffering. The terrorist will find a way to make these occur. Perverted necessity is the mother of invention, too.
Those can only be stopped by wiping out the persons and culture that spawns them. Sorry -- that's way it is. Set a lesser target and we'll be suffering terror again and again.
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