BOB KLAHN -> JOHN HULL wrote:

 BK>  ...

 BA>>> had more important things to do, apparently.  This not to say that
 BA>>> 9/11 would
 BA>>> not have happened anyway (the domestic investigatory errors that have
 BA>>> come to light
 BA>>> were bureaucratic problems that weren't - and aren't - the
 BA>>> administration's fault), but
 BA>>> it is to say that the Bush administration can be blamed for being
 BA>>> blindsided; they were
 BA>>> blindsided because they weren't looking - and should have been.

 JH>> Horseshit, Bob!  There were no CREDIBLE warnings given.

 BK>  Just Clinton's then Bush's counterinsurgency director. Just
 BK>  reports straight to the president.

 JH>> Gorelick's wall between agencies was still in place during

 BK>  Gorelick did not create any wall between agencies. Gorelick did
 BK>  not have the authority to create any such wall. The so called
 BK>  wall was created under Reagan, who signed the order. Gorelick
 BK>  just wrote a clarification of the rules that *DID* allow sharing
 BK>  information.

Another opinion:

9/11 HIJACKERS KNOWN IN ADVANCE

Republican Congressman Curt Weldon from Pennsylvania has made the explosive
allegation that more than a year before the attacks on 9/11, Clinton
administration intelligence officials knew who four of the hijackers were,
including ringleader Mohammed Atta. So why wasn't anything done?

Because information wasn't allowed to be shared between federal agencies,
thanks to 9/11 commissioner and former Deputy Attorney General Jamie
Gorelick (not pronounced the way it's spelled.) She instituted rules that
forbade sharing of intelligence between, for instance, the CIA and the FBI.
She was reportedly hired at the insistence of The Hildabeast. Thank you
Hillary Clinton.

Here's what Weldon told the New York Times. He says a military group,
called 'Able Danger' had identified the four terrorists, knew they were
trouble and said the FBI should know about it. They were rejected, because
of Gorelick's rules. Since the Islamic hijackers had legitimate visas, Able
Danger's recommendation was turned down. A quote from Weldon: "In
fact, I'll tell you how stupid it was, they put stickies on the faces of
Mohammed Atta on the chart that the military intelligence unit had
completed and they said you can't talk to Atta because he's here."
Curt Weldon say he got the info from some of the agents in the Able Danger
unit.

If true, and there's no reason to believe it isn't, this is yet another
example of how the debacle of 9/11 should be laid at the feet of the
Clinton administration. No president did more to ignore the mounting threat
of Islamic terrorism than did Bill Clinton, and 3,000 people paid for his
policies with their lives.

The 9/11 Commission is coming back to investigate this one. We'll be watching.

And



It was during the Clinton Administration that we experienced attack and
after attack by Islamic terrorists...and nothing was done about it.  The
first World Trade Center bombing?  Nothing.  The debacle in Somalia?  No
response.  The bombing of our African embassies?  Zero action.  Khobar
Towers in Saudi Arabia?  The Democrats did nothing.  All the while, Osama
Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda were emboldened....propped up by our appeasement
strategy.  During the 8 years of the Clinton Administration, Islamic
terrorists plotted and planned their greatest attack:  September 11th.  And
so they pulled it off.

And it was the policies and procedures of the Clinton Administration that
benefited the 9/11 hijackers, right up until the end.  They could have been
caught, but "the wall" put into place during Jamie Gorelick's
tenure at the Department of Justice prevented the sharing of intelligence
across agencies.  And yet she was put on the 9/11 Commission.

That's what the media should be asking the Democrats about when they want
to say they're better on national security.  But it'll never happen.

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