John
Sarah Palin: Lie, Lie, Lie, Drill Drill Drill!
LongRodSilver
Drill Drill Drill!" <TheMo...@aol.com> wrote:
>McCain scares the fuck outta me - Bush V2.0
and that's good for the security of the country.
Lord Gow333, Jeff Jarrett's number 238823454 fan!
news:af212e1a-b7d1-46d8...@w39g2000prb.googlegroups.com...
> McCain scares the fuck outta me - Bush V2.0
That's okay, Bawack will be awong wif your bwanky and a bedtime story any
minute now...
LG (hopes it's the fairy tale about him being a fiscal Conservative)
--
Today, all you have to do is suggest a date by which U.S. forces in Iraq
should surrender, and you're officially a Democratic candidate for
president. - Ann Coulter
Ouroboros_Rex
ROFLMAO Don't miss the second paragraph below - it's a killer, of over 3000
Americans.
On or about Jan. 20th, 2001, as the Clinton administration transitioned
to the Bush, NSC chief Sandy Berger briefed Condi Rice extensively on the
terrorism threat posed by bin Laden, telling her she would be spending
more time on this threat than she ever imagined. At the Dept. of Defense,
William Cohen was performing the same courtesy for Don Rumsfeld, again
with a sharp reminder of the terrorist threat in the form of a hand-written
letter to Rumsfeld containing the phone numbers of people in the Pentagon
Rumsfeld needed to speak to directly on the subject. On Jan. 26th, the CIA
confirmed to the new Bush administration that bin Laden and Al Qaeda were
responsible for the attack on the U.S.S. Cole which killed 17 American
sailors.
The response of the Bush administration was to cease Predator drone
surveillance flights to track bin Laden, reassign the cruise-missile
equipped submarine stationed in the Indian Ocean with the specific mission
of targeting bin Laden, reassign the AC-130 gunships on scramble alert that
could be on top of bin Laden after a six hour flight, suspend the special
forces operations targeting bin Laden already based in Uzbekistan for the
purpose thanks to a treaty signed by Bill Clinton.
In May, June and July, the sole remaining Clinton appointee, CIA Director
Tenet, was frantic with concern over incoming intelligence indicating a huge
terrorist attack on American soil. Vice-President Dick Cheney was head
of a
new counter-terrorism task force, yet held no meetings. Attorney General
John Ashcroft refused FBI requests for hundreds of new agents to be assigned
to counter-terrorism; his concerns were drugs and pornography, yet in late
July he stopped flying commercial airliners due to a "threat assessment."
The general threat assessment was considered to be the most severe in
decades
according to CIA's Tenet; members of the Senate Intelligence Committee were
briefed on the situation on July 5th.
Also in July, an Arizona FBI agent wrote the 'Phoenix Memo,' expressing
concern about possible Al Qaeda members taking flying lessons in this
country towards the end of terrorist attacks. One of the two FBI officials
to see it before the attacks was New York counter-terrorism chief John
O'Neill; contemporaneous with the timing of this memo was O'Neill's remarks
to the authors of 'Bin Laden: The Hidden Truth,' wherein O'Neill expressed
his outrage with the Bush administration's thwarting of counter-terrorist
efforts in the interests of protecting its Saudi sponsors. John O'Neill
would soon quit the FBI in disgust, only to die at his new job as chief of
security at the WTC.
Also in July, the FAA rescinded the rule allowing airline pilots to be
armed,
a rule that had been in force since 1961.
August found George W. Bush 'vacationing' for the entire month in rural
Texas, while Dick Cheney similarly spent the month in rural Wyoming. On
August 1st actor James Woods as flying from Logan to Los Angeles, sharing
1st class with four Middle Eastern men, who ate nothing, drank nothing,
read nothing, nor slept the entire flight, only making occasional low
comments to one another. Woods remarked to the flight attendant that 'These
guys act like they're going to hijack the plane,' and once the plane landed
he repeated his concerns to the FAA. All four men were hijackers on Sept.
11th. On Aug. 6th, Bush himself was apparently finally briefed about the
specific threat of attacks on American soil. His vacation continued. On Aug.
17th, the Minneapolis FBI office arrested Zacarias Moussaoui, on the basis
of an expired student visa and very curious pilot training requests. FBI
field agents at this office were convinced of Moussaoui's intentions as a
terrorist, and repeatedly tried to obtain a FISA (Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act) warrant to search his computer. In early Sept., French
Intelligence informed both the CIA and the FBI that Moussaoui had Al Qaeda
connections. A FISA warrant remained ungranted against Moussaoui, even
though under Clinton and Janet Reno no FISA request had been refused.
As an interesting aside, before 9/11 Ashcroft was known to put in 3 1/2 day
work weeks at the Dept. of Justice. In the early months of the
administration,
FBI agents flew to Ashcroft's home in rural Missouri to obtain his signature
on a wire-tap for a terrorism investigation. Ashcroft was so displeased to
see the agents, he had them stand out in the cold while he sat in his pickup
to read and sign the documents.
On Sept. 4th, Cheney's counter-terrorism task force met for the first time.
According to the Pentagon's liaison for terrorism, Gen. Kerrik, Clinton's
had met almost weekly, but with Bush he "didn't see that same kind of
focus."
On Sept. 10, Diane Feinstein, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee
briefed on July 5th, asked Dick Cheney's chief of staff Scooter Libby when
the administration would start focusing on these terror threats which had
so pre-occupied CIA's Tenet, the most severe in decades - she was told it
would have to wait another six months.
So, obviously, it's all Clinton's fault.
Pre-9/11 And The Bush Administration. It's All Clinton's Fault, Right?
by Kent Southard
The One, The Only
news:Mq-dnU6yovBBSXHV...@giganews.com:
> ROFLMAO Don't miss the second paragraph below - it's a killer, of
> over 3000 Americans.
Whether your oversight or the author's, having no sources for this story
makes it pretty worthless. I don't even disagree with you; but I want to
see the evidence that backs this stuff up.
--
JH
Remove my PANTS to reply
Ouroboros_Rex
Sounds fair.
A decent writeup excluding military details:
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2006/osama_bin_missing_whos_tried_hardest_to.html
Various articles explaining military details (some of which are still
secret):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A62725-2001Dec18
. The Clinton administration ordered the Navy to maintain two Los
Angeles-class attack submarines on permanent station in the nearest
available waters, enabling the U.S. military to place Tomahawk cruise
missiles on any target in Afghanistan within about six hours of receiving
the order.
. Three times after Aug. 20, 1998, when Clinton ordered the only missile
strike of his presidency against bin Laden's organization, the CIA came
close enough to pinpointing bin Laden that Clinton authorized final
preparations to launch. In each case, doubts about the intelligence aborted
the mission.
. The CIA's directorate of operations recruited, trained, paid or equipped
surrogate forces in Pakistan, Uzbekistan and among tribal militias inside
Afghanistan, with the common purpose of capturing or killing bin Laden. The
Pakistani channel, disclosed previously in The Washington Post, and its
Uzbek counterpart, which has not been reported before, never bore fruit.
Inside Afghanistan, tribal allies twice reported to their CIA handlers that
they fought skirmishes with bin Laden's forces, but they inflicted no
verified damage.
. Operatives of the CIA's Special Activities Division made at least one
clandestine entry into Afghanistan in 1999. They prepared a desert airstrip
to extract bin Laden, if captured, or to evacuate U.S. tribal allies, if
cornered. The Special Collection Service, a joint project of the CIA and the
National Security Agency, also slipped into Afghanistan to place listening
devices within range of al Qaeda's tactical radios.
January 10-25, 2001: Rice Rejects Resuming Use of Surveillance Drone to
Track Bin Laden
The Predator drone. [Source: US military] (click image to enlarge)Even
before President Bush's official inauguration, Clinton holdover
counterterrorism "tsar" Richard Clarke pushes National Security Adviser Rice
and other incoming Bush officials to resume Predator drone flights over
Afghanistan (originally carried out in September and October 2000) in an
attempt to find and assassinate bin Laden. [Washington Post, 1/20/2002; CBS
News, 6/25/2003]
On January 10, Rice is shown a video clip of bin Laden filmed by a Predator
drone the year before. [Washington Post, 1/20/2002] Aware of an Air Force
plan to arm the Predator, when Clarke outlines a series of steps to take
against al-Qaeda on January 25 (see January 25, 2001), one suggestion is to
go forward with new Predator drone reconnaissance missions in the spring and
use an armed version when it is ready. [9/11 Commission, 3/24/2004] The
original Air Force development plan calls for three years of Predator
testing, but Clarke pushes so hard that a Hellfire missile is successfully
test fired from a Predator on February 16, 2001. The armed Predator will be
fully ready by early June 2001 (see Early June-September 10, 2001). [CBS
News, 6/25/2003; New Yorker, 7/28/2003]
However, Rice apparently approves the use of the Predator but only as part
of a broader strategy against al-Qaeda. Since that strategy will still not
be ready before 9/11, the Predator will not be put into use before 9/11.
[Associated Press, 6/22/2003]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A8734-2002Jan19
From a Predator drone flying two miles high and four miles away, Air Force
and Central Intelligence Agency ground controllers loosed a missile. It
carried true with a prototype warhead, one of about 100 made, for killing
men inside buildings. According to people briefed on the experiment, careful
analysis after the missile pierced the villa wall showed blast effects that
would have slain anyone in the target room.
The Bush administration now had in its hands what one participant called
"the holy grail" of a three-year quest by the U.S. government - a tool that
could kill bin Laden within minutes of finding him. The CIA planned and
practiced the operation. But for the next three months, before the
catastrophe of Sept. 11, President Bush and his advisers held back. [...]
The administration did not resume its predecessor's covert deployment of
cruise missile submarines and gunships, on six-hour alert near Afghanistan's
borders. The standby force gave Clinton the option, never used, of an
immediate strike against targets in al Qaeda's top leadership. The Bush
administration put no such capability in place before Sept. 11. [...]
Shelton had no interest in returning Los Angeles-class submarines, which
carry cruise missiles, or AC-130 gunships, which fire computer-directed
cannon, to their previous Afghan stations. The intelligence community had
yet to give him a target for bin Laden that he thought he could strike in
time.