Howdy!
Posted on 05/29/2002 11:29:43 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
Five days before Sept. 11, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice was warned that a terrorist attack inside the United States was imminent, a former U.S. Senator who headed up a blue ribbon commission on terrorism revealed late Tuesday.
"I've known the national security advisor, Professor Rice, for about 20 some years," former Colorado Sen. Gary Hart told WABC Radio's John Batchelor and Paul Alexander. "She was a supporter of mine in my first presidential campaign as a graduate student in Denver."
After giving a speech on the terrorist threat in Montreal on Sept. 5, Hart said he requested an urgent meeting with Dr. Rice in Washington.
"I said to her, 'You must move more quickly on homeland security. An attack is going to happen.'
"That was Sept. 6, 2001," Hart told WABC, without characterizing Dr. Rice's reaction.
The night before, Hart said, he issued the same warning to an air transportation group in Canada.
Three years ago Hart and former New Hampshire Sen. Warren Rudman co-chaired the U.S. Commission on National Security for the 21st Century, which warned specifically of a domestic terrorist attack.
In a Sept. 15, 1999 report the Hart-Rudman Commission concluded, "America will be attacked by terrorists using weapons of mass destruction and Americans will lose their lives on American soil, possibly in large numbers."
I remember this too. Was there any investigation into how Brown got the warning and why the people on the 4 planes didn't?
Pitiful!
The other option is that it is the high rise office towers that are weapons of mass destruction!
Personally this all sounds like Monkey Business to me.
Oh are you now trying to start to bash Condi?
Howdy!
Rice herself voted for a Democrat in the first presidential election in which she was eligible, casting her ballot for Jimmy Carter in 1976. She voted for Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980, largely out of distress with what she considered naive statements by Carter about the Soviet Union. In 1984 Hart's farsighted military reform agenda attracted her, although by then, [fellow foreign policy scholar at Stanford University, Coit] Blacker says, it was clear to him, from joint appearances on arms control panels, that she was "more comfortable" in the Republican Party.
It was also clear to another Stanford colleague, Russia expert Michael McFaul, who remembers Rice telling him she opposed gun control and even gun registration because Bull Connor could have used it to disarm her father and others who patrolled Titusville in 1963. "For me as a liberal, pro-gun control person, it really hit me over the head," McFaul says. "I remember thinking, 'Who are we as white liberals to respond?' "
Rice says it was the issue of race that repelled her from the Democratic Party for good – for reasons that echo the lessons she draws from her family narrative. She remembers watching the 1984 Democratic National Convention that nominated Walter Mondale for president, and recoiling at what seemed to her an endless refrain of appeals to "women, minorities and the poor, which basically means helpless people and the poor."
"If I heard it one more time!" she says, still fuming. "I decided I'd rather be ignored than patronized."
In 1988, Rice received a call from Madeleine Albright, her mentor's daughter, suggesting they work together on Democrat Michael Dukakis's presidential campaign. The two women had never met, but Albright says she knew of Rice's bond with Albright's refugee father, who was an impassioned believer in government's responsibility to right society's wrongs, and assumed from that – and Rice's roots in segregated Birmingham – that she was a Democrat.
Albright remembers the uncomfortable silence. "Madeleine, I don't know how to tell you this," Rice finally answered. "I'm a Republican."
Now, some of you reading this may have noticed that the URL above is from the Council on Foreign Relations. Interestly enough, the commission that issued the report was first suggested by Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich, both CFR members, and implemented by Bill Cohen, also a CFR member. The two chairs, Rudman and Hart, are (yes, you guessed it) CFR members. As if that is not enough, there were ten commissioners and, here it comes, each and everyone is a CFR member. So, what you have is a situation where are new National Security policy (including the Patriot Act) is basically a product of the Council on Foreign Relations. You may be saying at this point, "So what? That is tinfoil hat stuff." Maybe, maybe not. Might be worth checking out, though, given their influence.
One more thing: Rice, Powell and Cheney are also CFR members. In fact, every Secretary of State since WWII has been a member of CFR.
He shoots and SCORES!
What a pitiful headline grab attempt!
Gary Hart tells Condoleza Rice to speed up efforts on "Homeland security"???? on Sept. 6????
What did he tell Bill Clinton from 1999 on???? Why didn't Bill Clinton respond? (we know why, of course - because Clinton is himself a terrorist of the first order and was too busy terrorizing his domestic "enemies".....)
But this point seems to be omitted by the monkey business maker Hart.
And, I was thinking about subscribing to some of the Newsmax offerings - because I like Gary Aldrich and admire his courage. After this - and after a LOT of things like this, guess not. Sheesh. GET REAL, NEWSMAX!!!! We are in a war for crying out loud - and YOU are siding with those who want us dead! by printing these incindiary headlines!!!
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