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Your accusation would work except the that the information coming out points to Bush, Ashcroft and Mueller, not Clinton, Reno and Freeh (though he is equally guilty). It was the FBI under Mueller and Ashcroft that denied the FISA on Moussaoui. It was Ashcroft that decided that anti-terrorism didn't make the FBI priority list, and denied requests to shift agents and funding to that effort.

It was the Bush administration that completely disregarded the Hart-Rudman report (commissioned under Clinton) that identified the the current problems with our anti-terrorist efforts. It was the Bush Administration that ignored the Gore Commission Report that discussed aviation safety and security. And it was the Bush administration that pulled surveillance off of the bin Laden family.

If maybe the FBI hadn't been so concerned with investigating Clinton's sexual escapades, and if the Bush administration had not come in with the ABC (Anything But Clinton) position, they would have recognized the threats earlier and been able to prevent it. In the military, the commanding officer is responsible for his men, and when something happens, that officer accepts responsibility and steps aside. It's time for Ashcroft to accept responsibility and step aside.

"This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country." [Teddy Roosevelt]

You're going to get absolutely ripped to shreads for that post......but thanks for saying what you did.

It's always easier here to just blame Clinton....forever.

It was the Bush Administration that ignored the Gore Commission Report that discussed aviation safety and security

You mean this report?

Washington Times. EDITORIAL. May 18, 2002 "Nearly a decade ago, in 1995, an al Qaeda plot to use commercial airliners to blow up the CIA headquarters at Langley, among other targets, was uncovered in the Philippines. It was named "Operation Bojinka," or "the big bang." As a consequence, Vice President Al Gore was appointed to head an airport-security task force. Those recommendations were eventually rejected by the White House as "racial profiling." When the investigations begin, no question should go unasked and unanswered. The Democrats might wish they had never got what they asked for."

And it was Mrs. Daschle lobbying Congress for the airline industry to keep airport security lax.

You probably need to save this thread to HD since you're replying with a very good logical recap of facts. It'll likely get purged sometime soon.

You said it Teddy!

It was the FBI under Mueller and Ashcroft that denied the FISA on Moussaoui.

You have a very selective memory. Mueller became FBI director on Sept. 10, 2001. Freeh's people were all still in place. Freeh's procedures were in place. Freeh's restrictions (held over from the Clinton administration) were in place.

It was the Bush administration that completely disregarded the Hart-Rudman report (commissioned under Clinton) that identified the the current problems with our anti-terrorist efforts. It was the Bush Administration that ignored the Gore Commission Report that discussed aviation safety and security. And it was the Bush administration that pulled surveillance off of the bin Laden family.

All bullshit.

The Hart-Rudman report was presented in the Clinton adminstration, as was the Gore Commission Report (ignored by Gore and Clinton when the Airlines paid considerable coin into his election coffers).

What evidence was there that the binLaden family in the United States were terrorists, were cooperating with their brother (whom they had renounced years before) or that they had ever had anything to do with terrorism? Is there evidence now, other than the rumblings of conspiracy pinheads?

It's time for Ashcroft to accept responsibility and step aside.

This is ludicrous on its face. As is most of your hyperventilating post.

That's pretty stupid. When was the Rudman report issued, 1999? and when was the Gore recommendations made? Gore's recommendations were shot down by Clinton. You expect Bush, only 8 months in office, with all kinds of current problems at hand to go back and read up on reports that were discarded during Clinton's time? Get serious.

What we need to do is trace these field memos and find out just where they stopped in the FBI. THAT person needs to be terminated.