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In February, the CIA concluded in an analysis that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is highly likely to use a "third party" terrorist group to conduct a proxy attack on the United States, U.S. officials said.

So it can accurately be said that those American politicians who have failed to close our leaky southern border and continue to resist efforts to do so are actively aiding and abetting Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda terrorists?

That's what I figured they've been doing all along.

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O'REILLY: The Bush administration has probably spent more money advertising that triangle than they have eradicating anything. This is why I'm stunned. And I can't get a straight answer out of Walters, the drug czar, anybody else, all right, to tell me why.

But I think I know, and that's because they don't want these warlords in Afghanistan who control the narcotics trade to turn on the Karzai government. So they're saying -- they're saying you do what you want, you sell all of the dope you want, leave Karzai alone, and we'll let you do it.

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O'REILLY: OK. Now let's go to Mexico. Tons and tons of narcotics coming across from Mexico every single day. The Bush administration won't put the troops on the border even though they now have a reason: national security after 9/11.

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HOUSMAN: Well, I think there's a natural hesitancy to deploy the U.S. military at home, but I also think that we're seeing a shift.

I mean, our borders right now are our front lines in the war against terrorism, in the fight against drugs, and these are interrelated problems, and we need to look at more National Guard support for deploying those units in intelligence.

O'REILLY: But we're not.

HOUSMAN: Bill, I agree with you.

O'REILLY: What is it going to take?

HOUSMAN: We ought to be looking at that. Well, I -- sadly, I think one of the things it may take is another disaster, and I hope it doesn't...

O'REILLY: Yes.

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In February, the CIA concluded in an analysis that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is highly likely to use a "third party" terrorist group to conduct a proxy attack on the United States, U.S. officials said.

That's what I figured they've been doing all along.

This was "concluded" before congress in Jan. 2000! Excerpt from complete hearing led by Lamar Smith, mainly about Canadian border.

Document

SECOND SESSION
JANUARY 26, 2000

TERRORIST THREATS TO THE UNITED STATES HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND CLAIMS

Today the United States and Canada serve as the home for a wide spectrum of international terrorist groups as well as indigenous ''home-grown'' groups. Certainly, today's hearing focuses our attention on the threat of international terrorism on American soil and the porous nature of US borders. While virtually all foreign terrorist organizations from throughout the world, including Latin America and Asia, have set up infrastructures in the United States, the primary threat of international terrorism on American soil stems from Middle Eastern terrorist organizations, a fact that FBI and CIA officials have repeatedly testified to.

These organizations have set up fundraising operations, political headquarters, military recruitment and sometimes even command and control centers. The entire spectrum of Middle Eastern and Islamic terrorist groups now operates on American soil, ncluding Hamas, Hezbollah, the Algerian Armed Islamic Group, the Egyptian Al Gamat Al Islamiya, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Islamic Liberation Party, the PKK and Al-Qaeda, the organization of Osama bin Laden.
(Again, this information has to be from 1999 and earlier, if hearing was heald Jan. 2000!!!)

There are various reasons for the emergence of these groups in the United States, which include:

Ability to operate under our political radar screen
Ability to hide under mainstream religious identification
Loopholes in immigration procedures
Ease of penetration of borders
Limitations on FBI and other agencies performing law enforcement functions, including INS and Customs
More sophisticated compartmentalization of terrorist cells around loosely structured terrorist movements
Exploitation of freedoms of religion and speech
Absence of a vigilant media
Exploitation of non-profit fundraising prerogatives and lack of government scrutiny
Increasing cross fertilization and mutual support provided by members of different Islamic terrorist groups
Ease of availability of student visas from countries harboring or supporting terrorism
Failures by universities to keep track of foreign students and their spouses
Protection afforded by specially-created educational programs
Ease of visa fraud and the invention of false credentials, from passports, drivers licenses, credit cards and social security numbers
Blowback from the anti-Soviet mujihadeen that the US supported in Afghanistan.