Yeah that whole protect and defend clause needs revised. Party members should never be held accountable like little people!
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Still, the Bush 41 Justice Department publicly espoused the "lone gunman" theory even as Nosair was openly plotting further terrorist activities with the visitors he was allowed in prison
Not just a lone gunman, but just one of those murders that happen in big cities, with no particularly important motivation behind it.
Like the non-terror incident at the LAX El Al counter, when an angry (about what) Egyptian began firing, or the Seattle Jewish Community Center, just a Muslim acting on instructions from "G-d", no relation to terror.
Since it's June Hillary would like to remember Sirhan Sirhan, who killed Bobby Kennedy in an insignificant incident. Also insignificant was Yasser Arafat's (and peace partner Abu Mazen) attempt to free him a couple years later which resulted in the death of two American diplomats. Willful blindness.
[the verdict] ...was against the overwhelming weight of evidence and was devoid of common sense and logic. I believe the defendant conducted a rape of this country, of our Constitution and of our laws, and of people seeking to exist peacefully together.
Justice Alvin Schlesinger on the jury's acquittal of Nosair for the Kahane murder
More gubermint blindness. (Quote is from the article linked to the thread How to Survive a Disaster - 9/11 Lifesaver RICK RESCORLA (Time Magazine Cover Story) - good Heavens, they've given us a reason to read Time!)
"Current approach" BUMP!
I’m reading it now and find it amazing and very well written. Don’t fail to read it. It skewers gummint agencies across the board and makes them all look like the pure dopes most really were and still are. Think of gummint agencies running health care!
Good post.
There has been virtually no discussion of the Wall of Separation between the CIA and the FBI, which was strengthened by the clinton administration. Too bad, because it ought to be talked about out in the open.
I can remember all the way back to the 50s that people who believed in American freedom supported the separation of these two agencies, and for good reason. The Soviet Union, like the Nazis, had its secret police, who spied on its own citizens and arrested them at the drop of a hat. The US, in contrast, spied on its enemies abroad, but not its citizens at home.
That was the theory, and it’s hard to argue with. BUT . . . the WTC bombing and 9/11 revealed the dangers. Not the the CIA and the FBI should merge, but that they should talk to each other and warn each other of potential threats.
Also, of course, something we are now confronting: should alient terrorists and illegals have the same rights as US citizens? I think not. They should be watched, and regretably citizens who are too cozy with them and arouse suspicition should be watched as well. That of course, means we need to keep an eye out for Muslims, just as we used to keep an eye out for Communists—or at least should have done. It means we should PROFILE. A Muslim citizen who cozies up with foreign terrorists, or a radical of some kind, is obviously more of a potential threat than a non-Muslim or a non-radical.
Unfortunately, we all know that the FBI and the CIA are still badly broken, and that President Bush has done little or nothing to fix the mess he inherited, other than add more bureaucratic layers at the top.