Posted on 05/27/2004 7:33:19 AM PDT by sathers
"Evidence strongly suggests it was Gorelick – not the ineffectual Freeh – who not only misdirected the FBI's investigation into Oklahoma City, but also the FBI investigation into TWA Flight 800. The parallels between the two cases are shocking. And in each case, the Clinton administration constrained the FBI for the same reason: to advance the re-election chances of its standard bearer. "
Although [Jayna]Davis does not document Gorelick's role in Oklahoma City, media accounts routinely describe her as the director of the Oklahoma City task force, the so-called "field commander." As Davis has told me, someone in Washington called the FBI in Oklahoma City and issued a two-word directive on its investigation into Islamic terrorism: "Kill it."
Oklahoma City, TWA Flight 800, and the Gorelick connection
Yousef and Nichols crossed paths in the Phillipines. Mohammed was Yousef's uncle. It is interesting to note that Yousef entered the United States on an Iraqi passport and had been known among the New York fundamentalists as "Rashid, the Iraqi". Another name that could be thrown into the mix is Abdul Rahman Yasin, a U.S. citizen who moved to Iraq in the 1960's and returned to the U.S. in 1992. After the 1993 WTC bombing, Yasin fled to Iraq and was given monthly salary and housing by Saddam Hussein's regime.
My thoughts exactly ... FOX will carry it, no one else.
Ping to the Newsmax coverage of the WSJ story.
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Well at least the Washington Post and NY Times will report it.
"Newsmax? The Wall St. Journal? Who reads them? They'll never get on 'Today', so why should I care? Now gimme back the remote, "American Idol" is on..."
- the indigenous North American Sheep.
The WSJ article finishes with a criticism of the administration for not making a clear case to the public of the connection between Saddam and terrorism. Right next to that article is a large article, The Real Story of Fallujah, again ending with a criticism of the administration for not getting the truly important, positive stories out to the public and allowing the histrionics over the prison stories to obscure all the positive news.
Good post
It cannot be made more clear. On whom do we practice the greater perfidy? For it must be one side or the other, in the stark choices forced upon us. For the future of Israel, and peace of the Middle East, the anti-Jewish despots must be removed or incapacitated. The health of Israel reflects the health of all the Middle East. So long as these anti-Jewish (and anti-Western) despots remain in power, the Middle East remains inherently unstable, and New York City is at risk.
Hannity and the rest must be e-mailed this info.
Hmmm
Go for it.
The memo grew out of the Justice Department's prosecution of the 1993 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center -- the act that apparently gave Osama bin Laden the idea to try again in 2001.
"During the course of those investigations," wrote Gorelick in 1995, "significant counterintelligence information has been developed related to the activities and plans of agents of foreign powers operating in this country and overseas, including previously unknown connections between separate terrorist groups." But Gorelick wanted to make sure that the left hand didn't know what the right was doing. "(W)e believe that it is prudent to establish a set of instructions that will clearly separate the counterintelligence investigation from the more limited, but continued, criminal investigations. These procedures, which go beyond what is legally required, will prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation."
The problem, of course, is that the inability to share information is precisely what hampered federal agents in tracking down the 9-11 hijackers. As Attorney General Ashcroft testified, this artificial wall impeded the investigation into Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker, who was arrested prior to the 9-11 attack, as well as Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, both of whom were identified by the CIA as suspected terrorists possibly in the United States prior to their participation in those terrible attacks. "Because of the wall, FBI Headquarters refused to allow criminal investigators who knew the most about the most recent al Qaeda attack to join in the hunt for the suspected terrorists," Ashcroft told the commission.
On Aug. 22, 1996, just a few days before the start of the Democratic National Convention, Ms. Gorelick oversaw a critical Justice Department meeting with the FBI. Immediately after this meeting, as it happened, all serious inquiry into the fate of TWA 800 came to an end.
On the next day, for instance, the FAA began to inquire whether any dog-training exercises had ever taken place on the plane that would become TWA 800. On the same day, as CNN reported, the FBI now claimed publicly for the first time that the explosive residue found along the right wing "could have been brought on the plane by a passenger and was not part of a bomb." Likewise, after the meeting, the FBI would do no more eyewitness interviews, at least not for the next two months. The Bureau only did a handful after that – and all of those for the wrong reasons.
He ought to serve some to the White House press corps at the next speech he gives.
Because, at times, Bush-43 gets a feckless streak, just like his ol' man, Bush-41, and just stares like a dear in the headlights. (sigh)
ping!
Could we possibly bring former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer out of 'retirement' for the next 6 months or so? I am increasingly amazed at how poorly the Bush administration handles their public relations. This most recent Iraq-Al Qaeda revelation figures to be yet another significant finding that will go relatively unnoticed by the public at large, due to the feeble p.r. work by the President's staff.
Excellent and very pertinent point. A fitting definition.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/11/13/180930.shtml
Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com
Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2001
"They are trained to jump all at one time, and make a declaration: ‘We are going to take over the plane! And nobody move, don't move, don't make any moves!’” a former Iraqi Army officer told PBS and the New York Times recently when describing a terrorist training camp near Baghdad.
"[T]here's a real whole 707 plane, a whole real plane, standing in the middle of the training area in this camp,” said Sabah Khodada, a former captain who defected from Saddam Hussein’s army after 10 years of service. The camp, said Khodada, was at a location called Salman Pak about 20 miles southeast of the Iraqi capital.
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