Steve, I’ve got to ask, are you all secretly members of the Unification Church?.. I mean you have to get this stuff from the Washington Times of the Limbaugh letter which is it?
NEWSFLASH: INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES NEEDS TO KEEP SECRETS.
9-11 was one of the most devastating intelligence faliurs yet. For some reason (ie. cutbacks during Clinton) the armed forces and the intelligence agencies failed to prevent a horrible attack on US soil. There are many reasons for this. Some that can be made public and some that cannot be made public. An example of a source that cannot be made public would be
"Why did our phone tap on OBL fail to pick up this key conversation on 5-14 2001?" or
"Why did our human intel in Pakistan fail to report this meeting between Atta and OBL on 11-11 2000?"
You guys always try to blur blur everything what’s your agenda?.. Please lets have a little context here. Shortly after Gulf war1 it was the defense department that requested a scaling back of the military. They were looking for a leaner meaner fighting machine. Gone are the super expensive heavy tanks and mobile artillery. In are Blackhawk and apache helicopters and highly trained Rangers that can rope in and win any battle within 15 minutes. Also a new emphasis on air power and cruise missiles. This policy was carried over to the new Clinton administration with the new Defense secretary William Cohen agreeing with this policy and with new base closings.
It should be noted that during our engagement with F.R.Y.,
NOT ONE not one American life was lost.......
With your comment (and other criticisms I’ve heard regarding Clinton dismissing intelligence assets) I should point out a conspiracy, not a theory, an actual conspiracy, that happened back in the ‘80s. Seems these less than squared away individuals “contracted” with the CIA to fly arm shipments down to Reagan’s contra war in central America. They had only one cravat, they didn’t want to deadhead back.. In 1987 the price of cocaine went from $100 a gram to $35 overnight. The DEA and CIA looked the other way when these planes flew back in filled to the rafters with friggin’ coke!.
What did this cost the American tax payer? Tens of billions for drug treatment and incarceration, thousands of lives lost during the cocaine wars of the late ‘80s and early 90s. Why is this not a theory? Because the CIA has quietly admitted to it.
You might recognize the names of some other less than squared away folk.. Manual Norigia for one.. He was president of Panama for Christ sake, did contract work for the CIA. Another charming fellow goes by the name of Saddam Hussane.. Oh yeah.. I almost forgot, that tall raghead that lives in a cave ol’ what’s his name.
Naw, Clinton was right to get rid of these types, bad karma. You can get the same intelligence using agencies from other countries.
You need to upgrade your knowledge on how intelligence and counterintelligence agencies work. You also need to upgrade your knowledge on why these agencies need to keep secrets from everybody. I know this can be hard and frustrating, and I know you want to know everything. But the problem is that if we force the intelligence agencies to tell us everything they know about everything, then the bad guys will know it too.
Curiously, this is the same argument used in the run-up to war with Iraq when we were trying to find out what solid evidence they had that Saddam possessed WMD.
If you want to see pictures of the hijackers, they were made public around 9/14-01 or something like that. At least they were in Sweden. We had huge newspaper articles with mugshots of all the 19 hijackers.
Kudos for them tracking down the terrorists so fast. You have any speculation as to why the FBI. stood down the investigation of Mohammad Atta and his crew?
