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A member of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee warned that bio-weapons are being made that use a target's DNA to only kill that person. Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum on Friday, US Rep Jason Crow of Colorado warned Americans to not be so cavalier about sharing their DNA with private companies due to the coming of the new type of weapon Earlier this week the Washington Examiner reported on just how easy it could be for privately-owned databases to be used to develop bioweapons such as the ones touted by Crow. The publication explained how DNA belonging to a...

When Daniel Ellsberg, the defense analyst, leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press in 1971, it created one of the most significant newspaper stories -- and battles -- of the century. One thing it did not do was prevent the Vietnam War, although it may have shortened it. Now he is calling on officials within the government to leak "the Pentagon Paper of the Middle East" to modern reporters, to short-circuit another possible war. Ellsberg's challenge is found in the October issue of Harper's magazine, to appear next week. E&P has obtained an advance copy. The article is titled, "The...

U.S. military and intelligence officials tell ABC News that they have caught shipments of deadly new bombs at the Iran-Iraq border. They are a very nasty piece of business, capable of penetrating U.S. troops' strongest armor. What the United States says links them to Iran are tell-tale manufacturing signatures — certain types of machine-shop welds and material indicating they are built by the same bomb factory. "The signature is the same because they are exactly the same in production," says explosives expert Kevin Barry. "So it's the same make and model." U.S. officials say roadside bomb attacks against American forces...

The CIA's controversial program of having terrorist suspects captured and questioned on foreign soil began under President Bill Clinton, a former US agent says. Michael Scheuer, a 22-year veteran of the CIA who resigned last year, told yesterday's issue of the German newspaper Die Zeit that the US administration had been looking in the mid-1990s for a way to combat the terrorist threat and circumvent the cumbersome US legal system. "President Clinton, his national security adviser Sandy Berger and his terrorism adviser Richard Clark ordered the CIA in the autumn of 1995 to destroy al-Qaeda," the newspaper quoted Mr Scheuer...

On April 16, 2004, a Washington Times’ editorial questioned the presence of Jamie Gorelick on the Sept. 11 Commission investigating the worst terrorist attack against the United States in history.  It was Gorelick who was “personally responsible for instituting a key obstacle [the so-called “wall of separation memo”] to cooperation between law enforcement and intelligence operations before the terrorist attacks” and the Times editorial held that her presence on the Commission “raises disturbing questions about the integrity of the commission itself. Ms. Gorelick should not be cross-examining witnesses; instead, she should be required to testify about her own behavior under...

Source: 911 Report Location: Paragraph #603 (on page 125)Frustrated by the Taliban’s resistance, two senior State Department officials suggested asking the Saudis to offer the Taliban $250 million for Bin Ladin. Clarke opposed having the United States facilitate a “huge grant to a regime as heinous as the Taliban” and suggested that the idea might not seem attractive to either Secretary Albright or First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton—both critics of the Taliban’s record on women’s rights.86 The proposal seems to have quietly died. [ show in clusters ]

Democrats, it would seem, have developed a sudden new sense of protectiveness for those who tell tales out of school. Anyone who remembers the name Linda Tripp cannot help but be amused at the Democrats rushing forward to decry the “trashing” of Richard Clarke. Where were these same Democrats when Linda Tripp was vilified on a daily basis? It is worth taking a few moments to consider the two cases in a comparative light. Alleged Offense Clarke broke with over two hundred years of tradition, and revealed the national security deliberations of professional non-political career civil service advisers to the...

The partisan, liberal media has been claiming that Richard Clark is a Republican just because he stated that he voted for a Republican in a primary. Though Clark never claimed he was a Republican, in their zeal to make him credible, they have been claiming he is a Republican. The fact is, Clark voted for John McCain like many Democrats (some Democrats even want to put McCain on Kerry's ticket. And the New York Times, house organ of the DNC, endorsed McCain in the primaries). Sunday, Clark admitted to Russet that he voted for Gore. Also, he has only given...

NEW YORK (AFP) - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry challenged President George W. Bush) to prosecute former national security aide Richard Clarke if they can show that he lied about terrorism policy. "My challenge to the Bush administration would be, if (Clarke) is not believable and they have reason to show it, then prosecute him for perjury because he is under oath, Kerry told CBS's MarketWatch. "They have a perfect right to do that," said Kerry. Republicans in Congress want to declassify testimony Clarke gave before Congress in 2002 that they claim is at odds with accounts critical of the...

http://www.garyrog.50megs.com/midi1.html MIDI - DON'T LET THE SUN CATCH YOU CRYING Don't let Bill Frist catch you lying He'll nail you for perjury-e-e-e-e Because you're a real Dick Clarke Your past words will not stay in the dar-ar-ark Don't let Bill Frist catch you lying For your RAT buddies, you are shilling A big book deal made you will-ill-ill-illing Because you're a real Dick Clarke Words won't stay in the dark And so...don't let Bill Frist catch you lying Attacking Condi sounded hi-is-sy She'll rip your throat out, Mr. Sissy You have been outed and you know it We see your...

How come that Richard Clark can and does remember every detail of his 30 years career in the government but conveniently forgets everything about the Saudi's plane leaving US soon after 09/11/2001. Wow, and there are still people in US who promotes his book and theories. Talking about who is part of the problem and who is part of the solution. I wonder how far has the oily buck penetrated US society. You, I am sorry to say, are far deeper into this mess that you will ever realize. Your priorities are a bowl of minestrone. Islam is succeeding in...

Everyone expected this presidential campaign to be an acrimonious one, but few thought it would sink to the level of blaming the President for the September 11 attack on America. It seems apparent now that the Democrats believe they can only win in November if they characterize Bush's leadership before and after 9/11 as feckless. In addition, they must make it appear that Bush secretly wanted to go to war with Iraq, resulting in less attention to Osama and al-Qaeda, which, according to their rhetoric, made our country less safe.   Of course, the fact that we haven't had another...

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle accused the Bush administration Thursday of making former terrorism aide Richard Clark the latest target in a campaign of "character assassination" against those who stand in President Bush's way. "They've known for months what Mr. Clarke was going to say," Daschle said in a Senate speech one day after the former White House aide sharply criticized the president's stewardship of the war on terror. "Instead of dealing with it factually, they've launched a shrill attack to destroy Mr. Clarke's credibility," Daschle said. The senator said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., former Sen. Max Cleland,...

All, I am discussing on another bulletin board the Clarke book and 9/11. Someone posted the following but I don't have time to hunt up all the links to refute the points against Bush from Clarkes book. Here is what he wrote: In particular, it seems that the Bush administration had a major foreign policy change planned as of Sept 6th, 2001. Does anyone know anything about this. Second, did the Bush administration have in place any specific response to the bombing of the USS Cole? Third, both the Clinton and Bush administration say it was impossible to have undercover...

How did you first meet John O'Neill? What were the circumstances? I didn't know John at the point where I first called him. He had been the number two FBI agent in Chicago. He was reassigned to headquarters in Washington to work on terrorism. He had driven all night, instead of flying -- driven all night to Washington. Instead of going to his apartment, the first thing he did, in the typical John O'Neill way, was to go to the office, go to headquarters. It was a Sunday morning; obviously no one was there. But I was in my office....