More "Able Danger" revelations
Captain's Quarters has devastating further observations on the 9/11 Commission's exclusion of the "Able Danger" information. We had forgotten about the Jamie Gorelick connection to the clinton administration and the cheap shots she took at the Bush administration before the 2004 election. Those of you unfamiliar with Gorelick, she was the lawyer (along with Janet Reno) most responsible for building the wall between the intelligence apparatus of the United States and the FBI. She complained the government didn't do enough in the preceding months to thwart 9/11, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS HER HANDIWORK that hamstrung the possibility of an investigation even taking place! Then, by some insane bit of chance (hahahaha), Gorelick ends up as one of the members of the commission investigating HER OWN role in drafting the law. When this conflict of interest was pointed out, she refused to resign and was one of the persons who continued to ignore the "Able Danger" data to cover her (and the Clintons) woeful inaction in the face of rising terrorist action against the US. Only in America.
posted by SCC at 6:30 AM
5 Comments:
To "Left-out:" Post a link, not the entire article. That was too long and cumbersome to wade through and added nothing to the conversation. My Blog, My Rules.
Political pundits agree, a president needs 12-18 months to establish his credentials, implement his policies and get his people approved by congress before he begins to make an impact on the process. Bush had under 8 months from innauguration to 9/11. He was also in the middle of clinton's bursting of the stock market bubble along with undoing all of the onerous "presidential directives" slick willy signed in his last 24 hours of office. The Able-Danger program had spotlighted a couple of serious candidates for investigation, but were forbidden by law (Clinton's law along with Reno and Gorelick) from sharing it with actual investigators of the FBI.
As to the "Mr August Off" comment, maybe you didn't realize, but Ted Kennedy and Harry Reid and everyone else has the same month off.
"some catastrophic and catalysing event - like a new Pearl Harbor"? You must be smoking dope to think they were hoping for the deaths of almost 3,000 citizens.
Point out the hypocrisy instead of making blanket accusations you neither try to nor can back up. It's demeaning to our intelligence
Fair enough- good retort. I'll try to keep it leaner and meaner... so as not to be a demean-er! It's just frustrating- if Reagan was Teflon- then "W" must have some sort or Romulan cloaking device up his derriere what with the way he he dodges scrutiny/culpability in four-freaking dimensions... oyy! Maybe Karl Rove is "Q" from Star Trek / Next Gen or sumthin'?!?
BUT HEY- can us tree-huggers PLEASE get a "token" lefty link (or two) somewhere on the right gutter of the splash page... just to advance the cause of "Fair and Balanced" bloggerism ? ? ;-) Equal Time? Charity for the Intellectually Challenged? ;-)
That's IF you could actually STOMACH the thought of "lefty links" on page one... As another has previously mentioned somewhere on your "Blog"- there are more "libs" running around in blue up north than probably ever before on da' job... just want "my peoples" to feel we can use the same "facilities" here... ...hate to feel like it's a "RIGHTS ONLY" fountain of info... ;-) (we ARE all BLUE after all... right?!)
Sincerely,
- Shady (Left-Out/L.O.F.A.N./homeskool/Ydahs/ etc...)
Not to put to fine a point on it Shady, this is our blog and we happen to be Republican (with a capital "R"). Our tastes run to the Right. We are what we are and we make no claims to being fair and balanced - that's FoxNews. You are welcome to post links to sites that support any arguements you may make.
Timmy's been drinking again.
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