I know that Kerry left the Intel Committee in mid-2001. Any idea if Levin was also on that committee?
I hate to be a conspiracy theorist, but one has to wonder if they had a plan to discredit the Bush Administration. The Intelligence Committee was closed down by Pat Roberts because of Dem Strategies to use their Intel Knowledge AGAINST the President.
Would they hate America so much that they'd PLAN or ALLOW Al Qaeda to get through the breeches that they already knew existed? Would they keep new people out of their positions so things couldn't get fixed?
It explains Kerry ignoring SPECIFIC LETTERS written to him about Boston Logan Airport being the site where the hijackings would occur....Click here for Kerry Culpability for Logan Airpost, Boston
The memo suggested that Democrats "pull the majority along as far as we can," then "take full advantage" of the panel rules to "among other things, castigate the majority for seeking to limit the scope of the inquiry." It said the best time to "pull the trigger on an independent investigation" of the Bush administration would be next year, when the president will be campaigning for re-election.
The Republicans hold a one-vote majority on the panel and could use that edge to reconfigure the committee's rules and structure.
Sen. Carl Levin, Michigan Democrat, refused to disavow the memo's contents and said Republicans are the ones acting in bad faith to shift attention away from the inquiry.
"The purpose of the memo apparently was to lay out options. And I don't disavow the options, including the words 'independent investigation,'" Mr. Levin said.
"Bin Laden couldn't ask for a better setup than to have high-level Clinton appointees remaining in the Bush administration sabotaging the war on terror and its sources of information, and then years later, after the devastating attacks, turn around and be used as a witness against Bush prior to an election campaign." Allegiance to America? ( Rolling Back Clinton-Time Magazine 1-22-01) "One morning at the nub end of Bill Clinton's presidency, Clinton chief of staff John Podesta walked into a senior staff meeting in the Roosevelt Room waving a copy of USA Today. Holding the paper aloft, Podesta read the headline out loud, "Clinton actions annoy Bush." The article detailed the new rules and Executive Orders the outgoing President was issuing in his final days, actions aimed in equal measure at locking in Clinton's legacy (in areas like environmental protection) and bedeviling his successor. "What's Bush so annoyed about?" Podesta asked with a devilish smile. "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." ...... "We laid a few traps," chirps a happy Clinton aide...... Nothing should be put past these people!