TXnMA (No Longer!!!)
From the Washington Times:
Lurking in the Jayna Davis files
Frank J. Gaffney Jr.
November 19, 2002On Sunday, the New York Times breathlessly reported on its front page (above the fold, no less) that, "The Bush administration has begun to monitor Iraqis in the United States in an effort to identify potential domestic terrorist threats posed by sympathizers of the Baghdad regime."
According to the Times, "A large number of government agencies are part of the new operation, including the Pentagon, the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency, the immigration service, the State Department and the National Security Agency. "
For those of us who have long been worried about the threat posed in this country by Iraqi intelligence operatives and their allies, it is heartening to hear an unnamed "senior government official" cited as saying: "This is the largest and most aggressive program like this we've ever had. We think we know who most of the bad guys are, but we are going to be very proactive here and not take any chances."
Unfortunately, it appears that at least some of the agencies charged with addressing the threat posed by Saddam's operatives and their sympathizers fail utterly to comprehend the challenge the targeted groups and individuals constitute. For example, the New York Times reports that "according to the CIA," there is no evidence Iraq has engaged in terrorist activity against the United States" since 1993, when Iraqi agents tried to assassinate former President George H.W. Bush in Kuwait.
This statement is deeply disturbing. It not only suggests a lack of appreciation of the present danger. It also evinces an obliviousness to the historical record that raises a question as to whether the existing intelligence and law enforcement agencies are up to the task at hand.
That record includes the impressive investigative research conducted by Jayna Davis, a former reporter with Oklahoma City's KFOR television station. Since the Murrah Building was destroyed in April 1995, Miss Davis has been tirelessly collecting, sifting and analyzing evidence ( including some 80 pages of affidavits from more than 20 eyewitnesses and 2,000 supporting documents) of precisely the sort that the CIA says does not exist. Among Miss. Davis' more telling discoveries are the following:
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