READER COMMENTS ON
"Nafeez Ahmed: Whitewashing the Protection of Terrorists on US Soil"
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Rob
said on 8/18/2005 @ 1:51 pm PT...
Maybe we should email the article to Bill Clinton and Al Gore since, one year before 9/11/01, they were in power.
Rob
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Kira
said on 8/18/2005 @ 5:12 pm PT...
Um, hellooo Rob ... who exactly had the power the year before '01? Not Clinton.
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Winter Patriot
said on 8/18/2005 @ 5:42 pm PT...
Or ... we could pay attention to some of what fellow guest-blogger Joesph Cannon has been finding:
According to Philadelphia newsman Gil Spencer, the original reports were inaccurate. Previously, we were told that the Able Danger team learned of Atta's whereabouts in September of 2000. Now, the date has been pushed back to 1999. Pushing the date back, of course, helps give the propagandists better excuse for heaping blame on Clinton. FIddle with the chronology as they may, nothing can change the fact that the FBI remained ill-informed on the identification during the first eight months of Bush's presidency.
And there's more from Cannonfire here, for anyone who is interested in learning. But those who are primarily --- or even solely --- interested in blaming the 9/11 attacks on Clinton are not going to find solace there.
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Kira
said on 8/18/2005 @ 6:06 pm PT...
And this .....
The President Who Took Bin Laden Seriously
[snip] While the nonpartisan members of the 9/11 commission have sounded excruciatingly even-handed as they issued their final report, the Republican congressional leadership - which has always tried to thwart the 9/11 investigation - blatantly insists on blaming Clinton or the intelligence failures that resulted in the fateful attacks.
Two days before the report appeared, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and his leadership team exploited a briefing on the report to mount a partisan assault.
Their script, repeated by Hastert and his whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo., suggested that "eight months of the Bush administration" couldn't make up for the policies established during "eight years of the Clinton administration."
Readers of the report will also note its sharp criticism of the inadequacy and inattention to the real "gathering threat" during the '90s in Congress, where the "overall attention ... to the terrorist threat was low ... [and] not impressive." Of course, the Republican caucus has exercised iron control over the nation's legislative agenda since 1995.
... Again and again, the report takes careful note of Clinton's active, personal participation in the effort against al-Qaida during the Millennium alert, exploding myths about his supposed distraction by domestic scandals. Clarke spoke directly with the president on several occasions that month. "In mid-December," the report reveals, "President Clinton signed a Memorandum of Notification (MON) giving the CIA broader authority to use foreign proxies to detain Bin Ladin lieutenants, without having to transfer them to U.S. custody. The authority was to capture, not kill, although lethal force might be used if necessary."
The commission confirms Clinton's widely reported "obsession" with al-Qaida, describing in detail his efforts to raise international awareness, increase spending on counterterrorism and homeland security long before that phrase became fashionable, and to demand action by the nation's covert forces. Indeed, their report credits Clinton with ignoring a serious threat to his own safety to seek foreign assistance in the struggle against bin Laden. ~~~~~~~~MORE~~~~~~~~
How about this loooong list ---
Clinton vs Terror // Republicans vs Clinton
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molly
said on 8/18/2005 @ 6:32 pm PT...
It's beginning to look more and more like the administration is working harder to bring this country down than alguada excuse spelling. There seem to be more and more republicans complicit.
Great articles in this month's Vanity Fair, All Roads Lead To Rove and a great story on Sibel Edmonds. It's expensive, I think, but worth the money. Whistleblowers being canned ...fbi and cia that stop the information flow revealing terroists, getting promotions. Lots of treason going on and a media black out.
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dz
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efz
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egerg
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rfrf
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zrer
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rfer
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rfer
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freer
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ouf
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