By the Clinton Administration, please note.
I seem to recall he did say when Bush took over that we'd be at war within a year.
It was well known that there was a possibility that American planes could be used as missiles in a terrorist attack long before 9/11. I remember reading information here at FR and/or on the web about Ramzi Yousef and his diabolical plans for the World Trade Center after the attack in 1993.
August 12, 2005
Able Danger, Continued
Michelle Malkin with a blizzard of links.
Jim Geraghty has a really good what we don’t know/what we need to know summary.
And yes, he asks the question that commenters have: Was Sandy Berger reading documents related to Able Danger when he walked out with a passel of them in his panties?
I have to admit I’ve been a little worried that this story would end up cutting conservatives politically. After all, while this discovery was made on Clinton’s watch, and the info wasn’t shared due to Jamie Gorelick’s now-infamous wall of separation, Bush still could have done something.
But the fact that former terrorism-denier and the Democrats’ new favorite ex-CIA agent is trying to throw cold water on the story reassures me.
More On Sandy “Docs In His Socs” Berger: Dr. Sanity notes that this gives Berger motive. Or, as Columbo would say, motive, means, and opportunity.
The biggest defense of Berger has been the claim that there was nothing in those National Archives sufficiently sensitive or embarrassing to justify a deliberate theft of original memos... and their subsequent illegal destruction.
Of course there wasn’t any nefarious intent, Berger’s defenders argued; there just wasn’t anything sufficiently compromising to cause him to act in such a bizarre fashion.
I have always thought if anyone in this country was complacent it was Clinton (not that anyone was). His people were still in many departments. It was the dems who had to gain as they thought this would very possibly bring down Bush. Also, as an ironic interesting side note, it was a Clinton look alike face as a Satan that showed up in the smoke. If so, the far left has been really quot;barking up a way wrong tree".