Posted on 01/04/2002 8:52:30 AM PST by editor-surveyor
There is something very wrong inside the Justice Department of the United States and there has been for some time.
Various newspapers are now reporting that under President Clinton, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was ordered to stand down on various terrorist investigations.
One of the most egregious examples is the failure of the bureau to investigate fundraising organizations like "The Holy Land Fund," based in Arizona, which allegedly funneled millions of dollars in donations to Middle Eastern terrorists.
Although the Bush administration has now frozen the assets of the fund, it was apparently allowed to operate for 8 years despite the FBI intelligence that was presented to Mr. Clinton and then-Attorney General Janet Reno. One bureau source told the press that Ms. Reno felt any investigation of "The Holy Land Fund" would lead to anti-Arab sentiment and therefore was opposed to such an investigation.
As always, Ms. Reno will not comment on any aspect of her tenure as attorney general that is at all controversial.
There is no question now that under Ms. Reno and then-FBI Director Louis Freeh, Americans were put at great risk. The Wen Ho Lee-Chinese espionage case still has not been explained, and the fact that the 19 Sept. 11 terrorists weren't even on the FBI's radar screen is about as frightening as Janet Reno's passion for political correctness.
The current attorney general, John Ashcroft, has made no attempt to examine Ms. Reno's bizarre behavior or update the public about the Marc Rich investigation or anything else. Mr. Ashcroft specializes in looking dour and stonewalling. While Congress is attempting to get documents about President Clinton's dubious foreign fundraising and FBI abuses in Boston, Ashcroft is refusing to cooperate at all.
And this isn't a political issue. Conservative Congressman Dan Burton and liberal Congressman Barney Frank have actually joined forces to try and pry this information from Ashcroft's hands. If that's not amazing, then nothing is.
The truth is that for nearly 8 years, the Justice Department has been corrupt and inefficient. Janet Reno botched nearly every important decision she had to make including Waco and Elian Gonzalez. Time after time, Ms. Reno refused to approve investigative initiatives sought by the FBI. And time after time, Mr. Freeh sat in his plush government office refusing to let the American people know what was happening.
Now Mr. Ashcroft is doing the same thing. There is no reason on this earth why the public should not know the status of the Rich pardon probe. Or the anthrax investigation. And what about Enron, Mr. Attorney General – are you going to look into that? Millions of Americans were hosed while some Enron executives made millions.
How about a comment on that, Mr. Ashcroft?
Only three?
You don't want Bush to run again?
I remember when Dan Burton
was the enemy of President Clinton.
Freepers stood ready to help,
freeping everything in sight
in a loosing battle to force Clinton
to cooperate with the
Congressional Oversite Committee.
Now Freepers consider Dan Burton
to be an enemy of President Bush,
because he is stupidly insisting
on those same Clinton papers.
You're all kennel-blind.
"...my experience of George's administration
has been dismal and alienating
if he had taken the clinton corruption to Law
I would have backed him 100% and given my all
I respect his free will to do as he chooses
Love, Palo
# 220 by palo verde
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I accept that he has free will,
but Bush doesn't have my respect.
If he would explain his actions,
maybe I would change my mind.
Meet Carol's New Friends, including Ramsey Clark, Phillip Agree, and MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
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Are they trying to say that Osama was better than the US and there is nothing we can do, or what?
Yes, you were idealistic
for believing in George Bush, lovely palo.
But then, you're idealistic in all things.
You were great on the radio last week.
I haven't forgotten the farmers Bush abandoned.
Why don't you guys get a room?
See what I mean about sappy, saccharine spit-swappin'?
Yuk.
",,,Are they trying to say that Osama was better
than the US and there is nothing we can do..."
# 227 by CommiesOut
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Yes, they are.
Ben Laden is a super-villain.
It's going to take the entire strength of the United States,
IF we can get the help of the rest of the world.
We don't have a chance on our own.
I pray you're right, lovely palo.
I would really like to be proven wrong about Bush.
Seems like you're the one who disappointed yourself.
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