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?
Besides, you are NOT a turd.
To: nunya bidness
You need to remember
three things about me.
I do not bluff.
I do not ever lie in my posts.
And I never, ever post something
I'm not positive about;
and by that I mean,
I can back it up.
# 315 by Howlin
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Oh, really?
Prove that you never
post anything you can't back up.
If you can't back up your claim,
you've just lied to us.
I'm calling your bluff, Howlin.
How old were you when Reagan was elected?
I could care less what they said.
I don't like the fact that they are run out for their position.
No matter what it is.
Just as much as I wouldn't like it if you were run off for your position.
And I'm not talking about your formatting. I'm talking about your content.
I notice that you no longer care what she said AFTER you saw what she said; before you saw it, you regaled us all with what an honest poster she was.
I don't like the fact that they are run out for their position.No matter what it is.
Then you are addressing the wrong person. You need to take that up with Jim Robinson or one of the moderators.
Now, I know this will be hard for you to do because I know you all LOVE to think it's all a big, bad conspiracy. But -- now brace yourself -- sometimes things are just what they look like -- I know that's a hard concept to grasp -- because sometimes posters just make absolute fools out of themselves, not just once, but repeatedly, and when they continue to act in ways that are detrimental to the forum in somebody's judgement, they get banned.
Unless you are a liberal, it's time for you to face the fact that it's nobody else's fault that Carol is gone EXCEPT for Carol.
Just as much as I wouldn't like it if you were run off for your position.
You'll pardon me, won't you, if I don't take that remark seriously.
To: Texasforever
Back to the topic--
John Ashcroft is following in Reno's footsteps.
Would you like to dispute my statement?
# 308 by exodus
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To: exodus
"Give some examples."
# 311 by Texasforever
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Sure.
Dan Burton's Oversite Committee
was denied access to Justice Department papers
during Clinton's administration.
Freepers freeped and publicly accused Reno
of violating the law by withholding those papers.
(Yes, she held them under orders from Clinton, I know that.)
My question,
Why is it acceptable for Ashcroft,
under orders from Bush,
to deny those very same papers to the Committee,
when he is required by law to provide them?
She earned whatever happened to her, that's for sure! She had no right to use that kind of language.
Agreed, lovely palo.
Citizens of foreign nations
need to avoid aspirin factories
until further notice.
Carol was dumped after an exchange with you and as much as you would like to distance yourself from it the fact remains.
Whether I agree with her or not the truth is that you have become poison.
And I don't have a problem calling you poison.
You can spin this little exchange any way you want but at the end of the day it's a simple matter of petty jealousy. Or whatever you want tcall it.
Carol's gone and you're still here.
Bless your heart.
Otherwise, I may be forced to do something I'd rather not do... Like revoke the turd statement, LOL!
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