Clinton's Other Domestic Spying Program

front page magazine ^ | 22 february 2006 | Lowell Ponte

[unionblue83]

Leftist politicians, by criticizing President George W. Bush’s wiretapping of overseas telephone calls with al-Qaeda suspects, have left the impression that Democrats are too fastidious to ever use such methods to eavesdrop on terrorists. This impression is wrong. We should give Democratic leaders their due. President Bill Clinton used questionable government surveillance in ways more sweeping than any Republican president would even consider doing.

In 1993, the first Islamist terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City killed six, caused a billion dollars in damage, and had the potential to topple one of the World Trade Center, killing up to 20,000 people.

In 1993, the Federal Bureau of Investigation thwarted an al-Qaeda “Day of Terror” plan to attack New York City’s Holland and Lincoln Tunnels, George Washington Bridge, the Manhattan Federal Building, and the headquarters of the United Nations.

[Unkosified]

ping

[wolfcreek]

The wiretaps work but, after all this they will be a whole lot less useful. Someone is out to make us more vulnerable.

[RavenATB]

Boy, this sure adds perspective to the leftist B.S....

[Falcon4.0]

How upset did Dawid (not a typo) Gregory get when the Clinton's acquired 900 FBI files? Or when the Left Stream Media was kept 5 miles (no cries of arrogant & secret administration) from the Branch Davidians house as Janet(Rootcause)Reno recklessly rammed tanks into their house and not only kept fire trucks out when it caught on fire , but pushed the remainder of the house into the fire, burying any possible survivors.

[satchmodog9]

Reason and common sense do as well.

[TheSpottedOwl]

So if you were close to the late Cardinal O’Connor, or called him to discuss personal or family problems – even personal sins – to him, you may have been wiretapped and recorded by the Clinton’s VAAPCON surveillance. In that sense, the Clinton administration may have literally bugged the confessional.

Yikes! It's Bush's fault! Are we surprised that the ACLU says nothing about this? What if Bush was monitoring domestic terrorists like PETA and ELF? In fact, such Bush spying might be less outrageous. When the Unabomber was apprehended, authorities found Al Gore’s anti-capitalist book Earth In The Balance by his bedside, heavily underlined. Democratic Congressman Bob Filner of California in one radio interview was unable to distinguish quotes from the Unabomber Manifesto and Gore’s ideological writing.

This is almost funny. Algore has some strange bedfellows...

[JimRed]

In 1993, the Federal Bureau of Investigation thwarted an al-Qaeda “Day of Terror” plan to attack New York City’s Holland and Lincoln Tunnels, George Washington Bridge, the Manhattan Federal Building, and the headquarters of the United Nations.

They should'a let 'em slip through to the last one... < /sarc >

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Besides the Clinton/Reno VAAPCON [h]istory records other attacks aimed against Christians. In 64 A.D. . . . .

And then there's Project Megiddo, the Clinton/Reno, Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the FBI mobilization to combat heavily-armed Christian Y2k terrorists as they poured out of churches all over America at 12:01AM on 1 Jan., 2000.

Meanwhile Clinton/Reno were being asked from FBI offices around the country --

"Do you guys in Washington have any idea why so many Arabs are learning to fly jets? And, get this, they don't want to learn to take off or land! Go figure."

"Wot? Profiling? They're not Christians.. leave 'em alone?!"