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   From: janeanddano@yahoo.com   
      
   Ouroboros Rex wrote:   
   > Dano wrote:   
   >> "Ubiquitous"  wrote in message   
   >> news:ivudnaR-zNQQHLzWnZ2dnUVZ_tNi4p2d@giganews.com...   
   >>> janeanddano@yahoo.com wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Most Americans are terrified by the notion that people in our own   
   >>>> government could possibly be that evil.  They really couldn't   
   >>>> handle such a "truth".   
   >>>> So it's easier to label those that question as loons and dingbats.   
   >>>   
   >>> No, most Americans have better things to do than waste their time on   
   >>> spculative fiction with no basis in fact.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> That's all the 9/11 Commision was.  But whatever.  God forbid there   
   >> be a proper investigation of the most horrific crime ever committed   
   >> in the Un ited States.  What are you fools afraid of?   
   >   
   >  This.  The real 9/11 conspiracy - of dunces.   
   >   
   >  Don't miss the second paragraph.   
   >   
   > "...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   
      
   Again.  I don't consider myself to be a "truther".  I'm not saying I have   
   (or that anyone else DOES have) the answers.  I would just like to see the   
   questions addressed openly and seriously.  A true investigation is   
      
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