Posted on 05/30/2002 10:23:36 PM PDT by kattracks
He's a politician, not a leader. I'll be happy to dance at his going away party.
Yeah, the FBI's incredible string of screw-ups wouldn't have anything to do with it.
Scarborough, Rowan. "Intercepts Foretold of 'Big Attack.'" Washington Times, 22 Sep. 2001.
According to a senior administration official, "[t]he day before terrorists struck the United States, its intelligence agencies detected discussions between Osama bin Laden's lieutenants of an impending 'big attack,' ... The official said ... that the detection was not discovered until days after the Sept. 11 assault on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The time lapse is typical of intelligence analyses, in which computers sift through loads of that day's collection to find valuable material."
Seems like there was little human involvement. The computers seem to be doing all of the work. Keywords and such perhaps? But wait, they lack computers...
Warrick, Joby, Joe Stephens, Mary Pat Flaherty, and James V. Grimaldi. "FBI Agents Ill-Equipped to Predict Terror Acts." Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2001, A1.
"The attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center found the nation's chief domestic law enforcement agency ill-equipped and unprepared. An agency that must track terrorists who rely heavily on technology lacks computers that can quickly access the Internet. Boxes of evidence have piled up in previous terrorist plots, but the FBI has not had translators to decipher them. It lacks Arab agents who can penetrate terrorist cells and has too few veterans who see connections among foreign suspects and far-flung sites."
Oh...I see.
Oh, we dare not say he lied, we'll just say he made "misstatements".
I stand by all the misstatements. Dan Quayle
I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue. Richard Nixon
I wonder how many more "misstatements" will come back to haunt us them.
Does that tie in here?
Recently, he served as the Acting Deputy Attorney General for the Department of Justice from January through May 2001. On October 7, 1999, Robert Mueller was confirmed by the Senate as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California in San Francisco. Prior to joining the Northern District of California in 1998, Mr. Mueller was Chief of the Homicide Section of the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Colombia where he had served since 1995 as Senior Litigation Counsel in the Homicide Section until assuming the position as Chief in 1997.
In 1990, Mr. Mueller was named Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice by former President Bush and was responsible for developing and supervising the enforcement of federal criminal law. He supervised the Noriega and Gotti prosecutions, the Pan Am 103 investigation and helped develop the Justice Department's policies on corporate sentencing guidelines, computer crime investigations, and health care and money laundering prosecutions.
Prior to assuming the position of Assistant Attorney General, Mr. Mueller was an assistant to Attorney General Richard Thornburgh in the Department of Justice, and from 1986 to 1987 he served as United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
Mr. Mueller has held various positions as a prosecutor and supervisor and has also had experience in the private practice of law.
I think there are a few more things not mentioned too.
MUELLER NOMINATION/FBI Director
Robert S. Mueller, III was born August 7, 1944 in New York City, New York. He received a B.A. from Princeton University in 1966, an M.A. from New York University in 1972, and a J.D. from University of Virginia Law School in 1973. His employment history includes the following: 1967-1970, Lieutenant, United States Marine Corps; 1975-1980, Captain, United States Marine Corps Reserves; 1973-1976, Litigation Associate, Pillsbury, Madison, & Sutro; 1976-1982, Assistant United States Attorney, Civil Division, then Assistant United States Attorney, Criminal Division, then Chief, Special Prosecutions Unit, then Interim Chief, Criminal Division, Northern District of California United States Attorney's Office; 1982-1988, Chief, Criminal Division, then First Assistant United States Attorney, then United States Attorney, then Deputy United States Attorney, Massachusetts District United States Attorney's Office; 1988-1989, Litigation Partner, Hill & Barlow; 1989 to 1993, Assistant to the Attorney General for Criminal Matters, then Assistant to the Attorney General for the Criminal Division, Justice Department; 1993-1995, Senior Partner, Hale and Dorr; 1995-1998, Special Litigation Counsel, Homicide Section, then Chief, Homicide Section, District of Columbia United States Attorney's Office; 1998-present, United States Attorney, Northern District of California; and January, 2001-present; on detail as Acting Deputy Attorney General, Justice Department.
Probably some more out there as to specific cases. I'll look into it some if you would like.
It should be noted, for the record, that Mueller was quite vocal in criticizing members of Congress who had dared to raise questions about the propriety of actions by the FBI and federal marshals in the siege at Ruby Ridge where the wife, son and family dog of Randy Weaver were ruthlessly gunned down.
The record also shows that Mueller has a certain disregard for the constitutional rights of persons accused of crimes. As U.S. attorney in San Francisco, Mueller actively urged prosecutors to push defendants who pleaded guilty in plea bargains to waive their so-called "Brady Rights" which require government lawyers to divulge any evidence that could indicate a defendant's innocence. In short, Mueller is very much one inclined toward the "police-state" frame of mind.
That Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) joined in the chorus of cheerleaders hailing Mueller's selection, is no surprise. Hatch-who never met a federal law enforcement official he didn't absolutely love-has been a tried-and-true friend of every federal law enforcement appointee, including Janet Reno, ever since he was implicated in the BCCI scandal-ostensibly "investigated" by Mueller himself-but escaped indictment.
And we're to believe that all of these "analysts" can't coordinate the information coming in to D.C.
I'm still not buying it.
Also present around the clock: a representative of the National Security Agency's Cryptologic Security Group to provide information from the government's worldwide electronic eavesdropping.
Isn't that special Mr. and Mrs. America. 24/7 coverage!
Each work station can receive data from three sets of phone and computer links, with the information divided into three categories: unclassified, secret and top-secret.
WOW!
A-E-I-O-U...A-E-I-O-U
And the sheep went Baaaa and the cows went Moooo...
I'm done!
What's the use? Blatantly false statements abound and they will be believed because nobody knows and they don't want to know. Look up the Presidential Directives (PPD/PRD) and find out what is really going on.
I get frustrated and depressed blowing these things apart.
Agent: FBI Could Have Prevented 9-11
Wright listed several major failures of the FBI. They included lack of high-quality managers and modern computer technology, failure to modernize investigative objectives to deal with the new terrorist threat, too many investigative violations, incompetent managers not held accountable for their mistakes, an internal affairs unit that was "bias[ed] and unfair to whistle-blowers and others, criminal conflicts that have "contributed to the preventable deaths of American citizens," and FBI duplication of the investigative jurisdictions of other federal law enforcement agencies such as the DEA and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
Cry real big crocodile tears for us...
It's all about what is lacking, never what is in abundance! Millions and billions of dollars in gadgetry and there just isn't enough. Evidence from just one article has already been shown what is available, and that in high-tech abundance.
I feel I know what is lacking and it isn't what is quoted above.
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