Spin Insanity Courtesy of the Left

5-16-02 | Republican_Strategist

[Republican_Strategist]

Clinton's Bin Laden GATE - Mother of all Scandals

Resource: Clinton's Bin Laden GATE - Mother of all Scandals

[RJayneJ]

Nice job!

[Republican_Strategist]

The Washington Post: "The information lacked specific details about how the terrorist plans would be carried out...the White House said last night that law enforcement agencies were quietly placed on alert as a result of the intelligence." So Bush did what was called for. He didn't panic the people. Senator Bob Graham (D-FL), chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, said that he has been told of a CIA document that reached Bush in August warning him of a more specific al-Qaeda attack involving an airliner. Graham said he had not read the document but that congressional staffers have. He's chairman, but he didn't bother to look at this!

Democrats have had to admit they had the same briefings.

[toupsie]

Good one. The key to the whole debate is that the hijackers didn't even know what they were doing and that the hijackers did not leave a solid paper trail. Its hard to hear a secret if no one communicates it.

Also, for all we know, Al Qeada might have flooded the US with false sleepers to hide the real operation. Making the FBI scramble around chasing after decoys wasting manpower and resources.

This is just another glaring example of the Press and Democrat Party tag teaming President Bush. They don't even hide it anymore since "Bias" has come out.

[honway]

Great work. It is good to put the spin in perspective. Do you have any rational(no-spin) explanation as to why the search warrant requested by the Minneapolis FBI office for Moussoui was denied. Since the law was passed in 1978 authorizing special considerations for search warrants on suspected terrorists, only one other request was denied? Thousands have been approved. French intelligence had connected Moussoui to bin Laden. Any no-spin explanation would be appreciated.

[Republican_Strategist]

Well I’d like to know the origin of your information such as a search warrant being denied.

[honway]

http://www.angelfire.com/oh2/elevatorbrewing/houston37.htm

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Sources familiar with the case tell NEWSWEEK that FBI agents in Minneapolis seized Moussaoui’s computer in mid-August after officials at an Eagan, Minn., flight school tipped them off that the 33-year-old French citizen was acting suspiciously. Moussaoui had sought training only in making turns—not take-offs and landings—and specifically asked about flying over New York air space, officials said.

But, while Moussaoui himself was placed in detention on minor immigration charges on August 17, agents in Minneapolis were never given approval by Justice Department officials in Washington to open up the hard drive on the suspect’s computer. The Minneapolis agents sought approval to do so—and to take other investigative steps aimed at Moussaoui—in early September under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), officials said. This came after a FBI “trace”—a request for information from friendly foreign governments—yielded a report from French intelligence that Moussaoui had been associated with members of an Algerian terrorist group and may have traveled to Afghanistan.

The information in bold type means all requirements of FISA had been met for a warrant

[honway]

Since the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was passed in 1978, only two search warrant requests have been denied, Moussaoui's and one other.

[Republican_Strategist]

"Sources familiar with the case tell NEWSWEEK that FBI agents in Minneapolis seized Moussaoui’s computer in mid-August after officials at an Eagan, Minn., flight school tipped them off that the 33-year-old French citizen was acting suspiciously."

I asked about the search warrant that you said had been denied, but apparently your own source contradicts that statement.

[honway]

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1576/1028069.html

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The special court that reviews FISA requests -- a federal panel that since 1999 has included U.S. District Judge Michael Davis of Minnesota -- has approved more than 12,000 Justice Department applications for covert search warrants and wiretaps and rejected only one since the act was passed in 1978, according to government reports.

[honway]

but apparently your own source contradicts that statement.

Did you read the article?

[Republican_Strategist]

"FBI officials also made fateful decisions. After Moussaoui's arrest, bureau lawyers in Washington repeatedly declined requests from Minneapolis agents to seek a special warrantWell you don’t seem to understand that the FBI doesn’t seize a person’s computer without a warrant. They did eventually crack it. You also failed to read the source of your information, which said s-e-e-k, declined to seek a “special warrant.” under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorizing a search of Moussaoui's laptop computer. That decision is being questioned by some FISA experts, who say it's possible a warrant would have been granted.

The special court that reviews FISA requests -- a federal panel that since 1999 has included U.S. District Judge Michael Davis of Minnesota -- has approved more than 12,000 Justice Department applications for covert search warrants and wiretaps and rejected only one since the act was passed in 1978, according to government reports.

Mary Schiavo, a former Transportation Department inspector general who handled FISA cases as a Justice Department attorney in the 1980s, said FBI officials in Washington may have had a regional bias in the Moussaoui case: "They probably assumed there's nothing going on in Minnesota."

After the Sept. 11 attacks, when authorities did search Moussaoui's computer, they found evidence that would have heightened suspicions that he was a terrorist."

[backhoe]

Mass emailed to circa 25 papers & 25 "opinionators"--

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[nopardons]

Thank you for posting this. FR's contingent of Bush bashers and tinfoil hat " experts ", are all over this , and worse than the media and the Dems. This thread is straight forward and lays out facts; instead of the mindless twaddle and bloviation , on many of the other threads and posts.

[kattracks]

HUGE BTTT!!!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Great work R_S!!

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Excellent compendium of the TRUTH with which American CITIZENS need to respond to the media garbage mouths today!

We need to hit the phones to the talk shows and to blast Demonratic Congress offices with the truth.

We need to send the truth to every person on our email lists.

We need to speak to our neighbors, call our family members, find ways to BLITZ the Demoncreeps.

In North Carolina, I see that John Edwards is jumping on the Demoncreep bandwagon here - all the while he had been briefed as were others in the Demarxocratic party in Congress - of possible terrorist attacks last summer!!!!

THE OUTRAGE IS THAT THAT CLINTON HAD AMPLE OPPORTUNITY TO EFFECTIVELY COUNTER BEN LADEN AND HE DID NOTHING.

Further, there is one person who pardoned known bombing terrorists - and his name was Clinton.

The love affair between the Clintons and terrorists was and is real - and as far as any investigation goes- every single Republican should stand up and say -

YES, LET'S HAVE A FULL INVESTIGATION IN WHICH EVERY BIT OF WHAT CLINTON KNEW ABOUT BEN LADEN - BUT DID NOT ACT UPON IT - COMES OUT BEFORE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!

[The Raven]

An alternate headline could be "Even the Hijackers Didn't Know"

Good job RS!

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

There you are!!!! Bless you!!!! BOOKMARK THIS THREAD, EVERYONE - this is a strategic keeper!

[Republican_Strategist]

That is my goal right now. We need to get this out to as many people as possible.