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   From: realpilot_1@libsHATEusa.com   
      
   Last week, 9-11 commissioner John Lehman revealed that "it was the policy   
   (before 9-11) and I believe remains the policy today to fine airlines if   
   they have more than two young Arab males in secondary questioning because   
   that's discriminatory." Hmmm ... Is 19 more than two? Why, yes, I believe it   
   is. So if two Jordanian cab drivers are searched before boarding a flight   
   out of Newark, Osama bin Laden could then board that plane without being   
   questioned. I'm no security expert, but I'm pretty sure this gives   
   terrorists an opening for an attack.   
      
   In a sane world, Lehman's statement would have made headlines across the   
   country the next day. But not one newspaper, magazine or TV show has   
   mentioned that it is official government policy to prohibit searching more   
   than two Arabs per flight.   
      
   Meanwhile, another 9-11 commissioner, the greasy Richard Ben-Veniste,   
   claimed to be outraged that the CIA did not immediately give intelligence on   
   9-11 hijackers Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar to the FBI. As we now   
   know – or rather, I alone know because I'm the only person in America   
   watching the 9-11 hearings – Ben-Veniste should have asked his fellow   
   commissioner Jamie Gorelick about that.   
      
   In his testimony this week, John Ashcroft explained that the FBI wasn't even   
   told Almihdhar and Alhazmi were in the country until weeks before the 9-11   
   attack – because of Justice Department guidelines put into place in 1995.   
   The FBI wasn't allowed to put al-Qaida specialists on the hunt for Almihdhar   
   and Alhazmi – because of Justice Department guidelines put into place in   
   1995. Indeed, the FBI couldn't get a warrant to search Zacarias Moussaoui's   
   computer – because of Justice Department guidelines put into place in 1995.   
      
   The famed 1995 guidelines were set forth in a classified memorandum written   
   by the then-deputy attorney general titled "Instructions for Separation of   
   Certain Foreign Counterintelligence and Criminal Investigations," which   
   imposed a "draconian" wall between counterintelligence and criminal   
   investigations.   
      
   What Ashcroft said next was breathtaking. Prohibited from mounting a serious   
   search for Almihdhar and Alhazmi, an irritated FBI investigator wrote to FBI   
   headquarters, warning that someone would die because of these policies –   
   "since the biggest threat to us, OBL (Osama bin Laden), is getting the most   
   protection."   
      
   FBI headquarters responded: "We're all frustrated with this issue. These are   
   the rules. NSLU (National Security Law Unit) does not make them up. But   
   somebody did make these rules. Somebody built this wall."   
      
   The person who built that wall described in the infamous 1995 memo, Ashcroft   
   said, "is a member of the commission." If this were an episode of "Matlock,"   
   the camera would slowly pan away from Ashcroft's face at this point and then   
   quickly jump to an extreme close-up of Jamie Gorelick's horrified   
   expression. Armed marshals would then escort the kicking, screaming Gorelick   
   away in leg irons as the closing credits rolled. Gorelick was the deputy   
   attorney general in 1995.   
      
   The 9-11 commission has finally uncovered the proverbial "smoking gun"! But   
   it was fired by one of the 9-11 commissioners. Maybe between happy   
   reminiscences about the good old days of Ruby Ridge, Waco and the Elian   
   Gonzales raid, Ben-Veniste could ask Gorelick about those guidelines.   
   Democrats think it's a conflict of interest for Justice Scalia to have his   
   name in the same phonebook as Dick Cheney. But there is no conflict of   
   interest having Gorelick sit on a commission that should be investigating   
   her.   
      
   Bill O'Reilly's entire summary of Ashcroft's testimony was to accuse   
   Ashcroft of throwing sheets over naked statues rather than fighting   
   terrorism. No mention of the damning Gorelick memo. No one knows about the   
   FAA's No-Searching-Arabs counterterrorism policy. Predictions that   
   conservatives have finally broken through the wall of sound coming from the   
   mainstream media may have been premature.   
      
   When Democrats make an accusation against Republicans, newspaper headlines   
   repeat the accusation as a fact: "U.S. Law Chief 'Failed to Heed Terror   
   Warnings,'" "Bush Was Told of Qaida Steps Pre-9-11; Secret Memo Released,"   
   "Bush White House Said to Have Failed to Make al-Qaida an Early Priority."   
      
   But when Republicans make accusations against Democrats – even accusations   
   backed up by the hard fact of a declassified Jamie Gorelick memo – the   
   headlines note only that Republicans are making accusations: "Ashcroft Lays   
   Blame at Clinton's Feet," "Ashcroft: Blame Bubba for 9-11," "Ashcroft Faults   
   Clinton in 9-11 Failures."   
      
   It's amazing how consistent it is. A classic of the genre was the Chicago   
   Tribune headline, which managed to use both constructs in a single headline:   
   "Ashcroft Ignored Terrorism, Panel Told; Attorney General Denies Charges,   
   Blames Clinton." Why not: "Reno Ignored Terrorism, Panel Told; Former Deputy   
   Attorney General Denies Charges, Blames Bush"?   
      
   Democrats actively created policies that were designed to hamstring   
   terrorism investigations. The only rap against the Bush administration is   
   that it failed to unravel the entire 9-11 terrorism plot based on a memo   
   titled: "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States."   
      
   I have news for liberals: Bin Laden is still determined to attack inside the   
   United States! Could they please tell us when and where the next attack will   
   be? Because unless we know that, it's going to be difficult to stop it if we   
   can't search Arabs.   
      
   The BRILLIANT & BEAUTIFUL Ann Coulter   
      
   (Attention Liberal bigots, racists & hate-mongers... Insert your usual   
   hate-filled personal attacks HERE if unable to refute the article... as   
   usual!)   
      
      
   --   
   Poor Liberals. They HATE America but they just can't seem to find a better   
   country to live in.   
      
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