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   From: upland@alta.gov   
      
   On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:44:02 -0600, "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   
   >   
   >   
   >   
      
      
   ...and we know Bin Laden was in a plane flying out of Somalia towards   
   Afghanistan and Clinton and Burger failed to act.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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