Think of the Battlefield

...The final intelligence reform bill approved by Congress must guarantee our troops access to both local and national intelligence sources. Any American soldier or Marine can tell you that there no longer exists a sharp distinction between tactical (battlefield) and strategic (global) intelligence. For example, ground troops serving overseas use satellites and unmanned drones soaring high above to strike targets half a football field's length away. The same intelligence assets may be used to monitor Iran's nuclear weapons program from an office here in the U.S....

...But a 9/11 Commission recommendation -- now embodied in the Senate version of the reform legislation -- would give the national intelligence director unfettered authority to transfer funds among national intelligence agencies, including major transfers away from defense intelligence agencies, by far the largest producers and consumers of intelligence, to the CIA. If that happened over Defense Department objections, our troops could be at risk.

One way to ensure that the military's intelligence lifeline remains intact is to limit the funds a national intelligence office could transfer from the defense agencies that directly support our troops, while retaining the intelligence director's flexibility to manage and execute real reforms. In the spirit of the 9/11 Commission recommendations, this safeguard and other proposed clarifications in the House bill are designed to prevent -- not encourage -- bureaucratic infighting between the Pentagon and the national intelligence director.

This summer, 9/11 Commission Vice Chairman Lee Hamilton testified to the House Armed Services Committee that the commission should have given more thought to the intelligence needs of our men and women in uniform....

Terrorists continue to threaten our American way of life, so we must be careful not to handcuff those who most heavily rely on intelligence: our troops on the battlefield.

Think of the corrupt commission.

Who's Who on the 9/11 "Independent" Commission

"According to a 1998 Senate testimony of former CIA director James
Woolsey, powerful financier Khalid bin Mahfouz’ younger sister is
married to Osama bin Laden,. (US Senate, Senate Judiciary
Committee, Federal News Service, 3 Sept. 1998, See also Wayne
Madsen, Questionable Ties, In These Times,12 Nov. 2001 )
Bin Mahfouz is suspected to have funneled millions of dollars to the Al
Qaeda network.(See Tom Flocco, Scoop.co.nz 28 Aug. 2002)
Now, "by sheer coincidence", former New Jersey governor Thomas
Kean has business ties with bin Mahfouz and Al-Amoudi.
Thomas Kean is a director (and shareholder) of Amerada Hess
Corporation , which is involved in the Hess-Delta joint venture with
Delta Oil of Saudi Arabia (owned by the bin Mahfouz and Al-Amoudi
clans)...
Now you would think that being a business partner of the brother in
law and alleged financier of "Enemy No. 1" would also be considered a
bona fide "conflict of interest", particularly when your mandate --as
part of the 9/11 Commission's work-- is to investigate "Enemy No. 1".
"(Michel Chossudovsky, New Chairman of 9/11 Commission had
business ties with Osama's Brother in Law,
Centre for Research on Globalization, December 2002 )

Commissioner Kean: "Ms Gorelick is one of the finest members
of the commission and one of the most bipartisan members.
People ought to stay out of our business"

On Aug. 22, 1996, just before the Democratic National Convention,
Ms. Gorelick oversaw a critical Justice Department meeting with the FBI.
Immediately after this meeting, all serious inquiry into the fate of TWA 800 came to an end.

Gorelick was instrumental in the corruption of TWA Flight 800 terrorism investigation

Obstruction of the Oklahoma Bombing Grand Jury Investigation
The Mysterious Jamie Gorelick Phone Call

Gorelick and Richard Clarke

Gorelick Memo Impeded Probe of Clinton Fundraising Scandal

DOJ Inspector General's report found that the wall impeded the campaign finance task force

Around June of 1996, Clinton made a written request via his legal counsel,
Charles Ruff, to Janet Reno's deputy Jamie Gorelick. Clinton wanted to know what the FBI knew about
Chinese contributions to the American 1996 campaign. As soon as FBI director Louis Freeh found this out,
he ordered the files witheld. In March, 1997, Clinton allows Red Chinese ships to dock near
US military installations. This hasn't happened since the 1950s.
Ginger Lew, a confidant of John Huang, went to the SBA in May 96. Sockowitz followed her to the SBA
on May 27, 1996. After 3 days, he was given Sensitive Compartmentalized Information
clearance, a level above top secret clearance by, and to, the Commerce Dept., to view sensitive files on encryption.
However, he never got clearance for the SBA, where the encryption files came from.
While Sockowitz returned to the Commerce Dept on Aug 2, 1996. While his successor was out of the office,
he took the files, claiming to the secretary he was "gathering personal items." Security
Violation 1: Sockowitz was not debriefed when he left Commerce. Violation 2: he was not debriefed
when he left SBA in Nov 1996. Oddly enough, Barbara Wise, a Commerce Dept staffer, was found
dead in her office on 11-29-96. She was one of Huang's associates.
Within 24 hours, Clinton made an unscheduled flight back to the Whitehouse from Camp David,
supposedly to get a book of poetry.
Source: Worldnet Daily 6-25-98

ONLY A PARTIAL LIST OF ISLAMIC TERRORIST MURDERS AND PLOTS

1968 Robert Kennedy assassinated
1972 Munich Olympics Sep-5,1972 (Black September)
1976 Entebbe Hostage Crisis, June 27, 1976
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, Nov. 4, 1979 444 days
1979 Grand Mosque Seizure, Nov 20,1979
1981 Assassination of Egyptian President, Oct 6,1981
1982 Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister, Sept 14, 1982
1983 Bombing of US Embassy in Beirut6, April 18,1983
1983 Bombing of Maring Barricks, Beruit, Oct 23,1983
1984 Hizballah Restaurant Bombing, April 12,1984
1985 Egyptian Airliner Hijacking, Nov 23,1985
1985 Rome Airport murders
1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacked, U.S. Navy diver murdered
1985 Achille Lauro hijacking, Homacidal maniac lived in saddams Iraq
1986 Aircraft Bombing in Greece, March 30, 1986
1988 Pan Am 747 Flight 103 Bombing, Lockerbie, 100's murdered
1988 Berlin Discoteque Bombing, Dec 21,1988
1992 Bombing in Israeli Embassy in Argentina, March 17,1992
1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr., April 14,1993
1993 First World Trade Center bombing, February 26th, 7 Killed, Hundreds injured, Billions
1994 Air France Hijacking, Dec 24,1994
1995 Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan, Mar 8,1995
1995 Saudi Military Installation Attack, Nov 13, 1995
1995 Kashmiri Hostage taking, July 4,1995
1996 Khobar Towers attack
1996 Sudanese Missionarys Kidnapping, Aug 17,1996
1996 Paris Subway Explosion, Dec 3,1996
1997 Israeli Shopping Mall Bombing, Sept 4, 1997
1997 Yemeni Kidnappings, Oct 30,1997
1998 Somali Hostage taking crisis, April 15,1998
1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Peru, Jan 15, 1998
1998 U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1998 U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1999 Plot to blow up Space Needle (thwarted)
2000 USS Cole attacked, many U.S. Navy sailors murdered
2000-2003 Intifada against Israel - 100's dead and injured
2000 Manila Bombing, Dec 30,2000
2001 4 Commercial airliners hijacked, 250+ murdered
2001 World Trade Center attacked, 2800+ murdered
2001 Flight 93 murders
2001 Pentagon attacked, 180+ murdered
2002 Reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and murdered
2002 Philippines American missionary, Filipino nurse killed
2002 July 4, El Al attack Los Angeles LAX, several murdered
2002 Bali bombing - 200 dead, 300 injured
2002 Yemen, French Oil Tanker attacked
2002 Marines attacked / murdered in Kuwait
2002 Washington D.C. sniper
2002 Russian Theater attacked, 100+ dead
2002 Nigerian riots against Miss World Pageant, 200 dead, dozens injured
2002 Mombasa Hotel Attacked, 12 dead, dozens injured
2002 Israeli Boeing 757 attacked by missiles, fortunately no one injured
2002 August Hotel bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia. 12 dead, dozens injured.
2003 Rusian concert bombing
2003 Phillipines airport and market bombing
2003 Foiled SAM plot in the USA
2003 UN Baghdad HQ Bombing
on and on and on and on it goes .........

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