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With fond appreciation of Matt Drudge's attempt to bring up Pearl Harbor as a target of terrorists, I am posting this story from today's Honolulu Advertiser. The story shows that the state of Hawaii has a responsible governor and has no special warning of any specific terrorist threats.

Drudge is wrong again.

1 posted on 03/18/2003 10:00:09 PM PST by bonesmccoy
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To: bonesmccoy
what about the threats against Pearl Harbor?

you might be right....you have more to fear from Chinese airline pilots almost hitting apartment buildings
2 posted on 03/18/2003 10:03:12 PM PST by BurbankKarl
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To: bonesmccoy
With fond appreciation of Matt Drudge's attempt to bring up Pearl Harbor as a target of terrorists, I am posting this story from today's Honolulu Advertiser. The story shows that the state of Hawaii has a responsible governor and has no special warning of any specific terrorist threats.

Drudge is wrong again

Al Qaeda targeting US military facilities at Pearl Harbor........

By (the highly respected) Bill Gertz

bonesmccoy is wrong again

5 posted on 03/18/2003 10:16:59 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: bonesmccoy
Ask that the title of your post be changed from Response to Drudge:.... to Response to Gertz:....
6 posted on 03/18/2003 10:20:17 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: bonesmccoy
Washington Times

What did you think?.....that Drudge simply pulled that story out of his ass?

7 posted on 03/18/2003 10:31:01 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: bonesmccoy
Who is Bill Gertz?

Bill Gertz is an internationally recognized newspaper reporter who has specialized in writing major stories on a wide variety of defense, intelligence, and international security issues. A veteran defense writer who specializes in coming up with inside stories, often based on classified documents, he is widely viewed as one of the best reporters in his field. His sources within government are extensive.

Bill has broken a number of stories with international implications. As former CIA Director R. James Woolsey put it, “When I was DCI [Director of Central Intelligence] Bill used to drive me crazy because I couldn’t figure out where the leaks were coming from. Now that I’ve been outside for two years, I read him religiously to find out what’s going on.” Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson told the author: “We talk about your stories at Cabinet meetings.” And White House spokesman Michael McCurry once called the author “a straight shooter” who has written “more interesting reporting on national security than anybody on the beat.” Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh also has described Bill as “one of the best national security reporters in the country” who has produced more scoops exposing the Clinton administration’s foreign and defense policy failures than any other reporter.

Born on Long Island in 1952, Bill is currently the defense and national security reporter of The Washington Times, a position he has held for the past 14 years. Abroad, Bill has been subjected to vitriolic verbal attacks by no less than the chief of Russian SVR foreign intelligence service, successor to the KGB. SVR Director Vyacheslav Trubnikov called him a “tool” of the CIA after he disclosed Russian spying in the Balkans. Communist China’s Deputy Foreign Minister Li Zhoxing, now Beijing’s ambassador to Washington, has denounced Bill for exposing China’s international nuclear technology and missile sales. Russia’s Foreign Ministry has filed at least two formal diplomatic protest notes to the U.S. government over Gertz stories.

Bill has written numerous articles for journals and magazines, including National Review, The Weekly Standard, and Air Force Magazine. He has lectured on defense, national security, and media issues at the Defense Department’s National Security Leadership Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia, the National Defense University in Washington, DC, and at the CIA in Virginia.

Source

The Gertz File

I'm done.

10 posted on 03/18/2003 10:43:06 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: bonesmccoy
How is this connected to Drudge? I'm confused.

Speaking of Drudge... So far, he's really dropping the ball with war coverage. He's had the same front page up for the past 15 hours or so. This could be his time to shine, feeding constant war updates. But he seems to be sleeping.
17 posted on 03/19/2003 7:51:48 AM PST by wizzler
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To: bonesmccoy
I can't comment on this without getting skewered.. Even beyond the realm of most, mortal men...
19 posted on 03/19/2003 4:01:20 PM PST by Jhoffa_ (Yes, there is sexual tension between Sammy & Frodo.)
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To: bonesmccoy
Drudge was merely linking to a Bill Gertz article
23 posted on 03/19/2003 9:40:17 PM PST by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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