9/11 PLOT BEGAN IN '98: INTELLIGENCE BOSSES

New York Post ^ | 6/19/02 | BRIAN BLOMQUIST and VINCENT MORRIS

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June 19, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - Top U.S. intelligence officials gave detailed, closed-door testimony yesterday about the Sept. 11 plot, and a senior lawmaker who attended said it was probably hatched after the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.

[backhoe]

Cross-link:

Bush and Clinton and 911- some facts...

[goldstategop]

I'm with the Rats on folding the domestic intelligence and counterterrorism functions now performed by the FBI and CIA into the homeland security department. It makes no sense to place all the other security functions performed by the federal government under one roof and leave the most critical responsibilities involved still outside the department. After we've seen how the FBI and CIA didn't see 911 coming, centralized direction and investigation of threats against the homeland is more critical than ever. Al Qaeda is far from finished and we may well face threats we can't even visualize yet in the future whose horrors may dwarf the 911 atrocities in size and scale. Its time to finish getting the department set up so this country can better protect its citizens and its borders from terrorism and other dangers.

[backhoe]

It makes no sense to place all the other security functions performed by the federal government under one roof and leave the most critical responsibilities involved still outside the department.

I agree. Just hope abuse doesn't develop, but consolidation seems sensible.

[Sub-Driver]

what did Clinton know, and when did he know it.......

[DooDahhhh]

Not a whole lot.........and Clinton give a flip..wanted cigar time with intern

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[Right_in_Virginia]

"Just hope abuse doesn't develop..."

Folding the CIA and FBI into the Department of Homeland Security makes it a little too easy to cover up abuses, IMHO.

Now that both agencies will have proactive investigatory powers within our borders, I think it's wise to keep these two powerful bodies clearly in our sights.