Another thread here: Mansoor Ijaz rips Richard Clarke a new one on FOXNEWS
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Posted on 03/22/2004 4:28:39 AM PST by ReleaseTheHounds
Mansoor Ijaz just called Richard Clarke essentially a liar. Challenged virtually all of his claims -- and accused Clarke of stonewalling Ijaz's efforts to capture Bin Laden via the Sudanese.
And I do think it likely that Rice would be percieved as more interested in Russo/Sino issues as she was an old Communist fighter to begin with. Whether that was the actual case is hard to imagine, except the Clarke was known as "difficult" even by the Berger cadre that tried to portray him as a great intellectual synergist.
I think the point is what was in Clinton's briefing to Bush. That would be on record. Did Clinton think the Al Queda and bin Laden was low level enough that emminent threat wasn't highlighted as major-league in his brief?
If that was the case then much of what prima-donna asprin factory vetter Clarke maintains goes out the window.
"Liberals simply can't grasp the problem Lexis-Nexis poses to their incessant lying." - Ann Coulter (The Connecticut Peach)
Ijaz is founder and chairman of The Crescent Partnerships, a series of New York-based private equity partnerships focused exclusively on the development of national security technologies. The firm’s partners include retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Abrahamson, former director of President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative and Turkey’s Global Group. Former CIA Director James Woolsey serves as vice chairman of Crescent’s Board of Governors.
As a private American citizen, Ijaz negotiated Sudan’s counterterrorism offer to the Clinton administration in April 1997 and proposed the framework for a cease-fire of hostilities in Kashmir between Indian security forces and Muslim separatists in August 2000.
Ijaz is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has been featured twice in BARRON’s Currency Roundtable discussions. He has contributed to the editorial pages of the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek and International Herald Tribune on matters related to nuclear proliferation, terrorism, politics and the Islamic world.
Ijaz received his Bachelor’s degree magna cum laude in Physics from the University of Virginia and received his Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
I don't know that his info is considered "top-secret." It's always been the media's role to uncover what's going on. If the government were to ask journalists not to reveal what they know, they would howl censorship. There are times, of course, when the press does suppress what it knows at the request of the government, but from what I can tell, it's specific info related to specific operations for a short period of time. I don't think that Ijaz's info necessarily fits those parameters, but I could be wrong.
I've found the name of his company curious as well, but he IS Muslim--he's never denied it. He just wants to see more Muslims speak out against terrorism. You pose an interesting question about the building of mosques. If he were using the funds of his investment company in anti-American ventures, he's be a FOOL to be so public. And he doesn't strike me as a fool. Maybe not always right, but not stupid. I'm just not sure what to make of him, but I always listen to what he has to say. I hope that our government is too.
Born in Florida in 1961 and raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Ijaz lives in New York City today.
Ijaz's father, Dr. Mujaddid Ahmed Ijaz (deceased), a prominent American physicist, was an early pioneer in developing the intellectual infrastructure of Pakistan's nuclear program. Ijaz earned All-American weightlifting status while attending the University of Virginia.
Perhaps because, much to his chagrin, Clarke never HAD a cabinet-level position.
There are cabinet members, and there are not-cabinet-members.
Clarke was not a cabinet member.
Wow, didn't know that, and the Left likes to talk about the Clearchannel conspiracy, that actually looks like one.
Why,, a Junkyard Pit Bull of course! :)
I think Hillary's pained look was more like the pain
Vampires feel in the light of the sun!
Queen-of-Darkness Hillary
was recoiling from President Bushs' Light!
She didn't expect him to shine so brightly,
and perhaps she had even hoped 911 would doom his fate!
Remember...another of the Clinton foes...Author Barbara
Olsen died on 911 in the plane that hit the Pentagon.
And Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton was also on a
plane that same morning (he and Barbara were asked to
be guests that day for Politically Incorrect, and were
flying out to keep this appointment!)
Tom Fitton's plane never took off...due to the World Trade
Center Attacks, the airport stopped all flights.
What would have happened that day...it the planes had hit
the Capital Building, and all of the Clinton's foes had
perished that day?
Was a Political Coupe planned for 9-11?
We certainly see the fever in the Anti-War protests...
And Hillary's pained expression during Bush's
speech on 9-20 may have been disappointment that the
coupe didn't go as planned...
Another thread here: Mansoor Ijaz rips Richard Clarke a new one on FOXNEWS
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Very interesting!
First of all, the tale of him being ignored by Condi was spun in Age of Sacred Terror and didn't get a lot of traction. As she is a black Republican, it is gospel to the left she must be discreditied.
Second, this is part of the ramp-up strategy to use the congressional hearings to "get" Bush just-in-time for the elections that was made clear by the Dims exposed memos in the Intell Commmittee. With his testimony coming up, this drags all sorts of things out for questions that would have seemed like rank and self-serving speculation without his puff piece to base them on.
Third, this guys legacy of service is listed as (1)WTC of 93 being addressed only in the criminal sense, thus bringing them back, (2) Million dollar rocket at a ten dollar tent as a response to embassy bombing, (3) This is the guy that bailed out Billy with the dreaded Asprin Factory that was going to kill us all, and (4) he was a go-to guy of ten years of service and it was capped by the worst attack on our soil in history--he has to want to make it look like he wasn't asleep at the switch.
Lastly, he is being demure about his association with Kerry. The Dims in power with go with his dimwitted ideas the Bush administration brushed aside of electronic war by Islam. His "best friend" is Kerry's guy...and he isn't? This guy is BUYING a job with spun secrets.
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