US knew about al Qaeda in 1990s, FBI agent says (BREAKING NEWS!!!)

Reuters via Yahoo! ^ | Today | Deborah Charles

[jcb8199]

As usual, the MSM is first on the scene with this breaking news... Strange how they don't mention whose Administration it was under...

[poobear]

If it were a Republican Administration you can bet you @ss they would.

[mnehring]

Strange how they don't mention whose Administration it was under...

::Channeling DUmbasses:: Don't you know it was under the Bush administration, he just wasn't sleeping in the White House yet..

[NonValueAdded]

This is hardly breaking news to anyone even casually browsing Free Republic. If old media wants to discover it as a brand-spanking new fact, at least they are finally reporting it.

[Democratshavenobrains]

But...but...the DUmmies continually say Clinton was Osama's worst nightmare and he had a plan to get him!!

[mnehring]

For the sake of those who don't know.. search for the term "Able Danger"

[TomGuy]

Read some of the Congressional Intel Committee reports for 2000 and some previous years. al-Qaeda wasn't unknown. bin Laden wasn't unknown. Even Congress had more info available than they would ever admit to.

But, as we know from Reid, Kerry, and other -- they admit they didn't attend meetings, read reports, etc.

[fooman]

we should release this guy now so he stops telling all these lies. /s

[devolve]

[bethelgrad]

You are right. It just wasn't on the front page like it has been in the past 4.5 years. It certainly isn't breaking news.

[cripplecreek]

If you read some of the old Jim Traficant one minute speeches you'll find that he names Bin Laden as a serious threat throughout the 90s.

[Euro-American Scum]

Clinton was Osama's worst nightmare and he had a plan to get him!!

Right. He just got distracted by cigars and interns.

[Bullish]

Strange how they don't mention whose Administration it was under

I think we can all do the math.

[McGruff]

He's about the only one that mentioned Chinagate also.

Mr. Speaker, Beam Me Up!

[N. Theknow]

But...but...the DUmmies continually say Clinton was Osama's worst nightmare and he had a plan to get him!!

OJ should claim that Osama is the real murderer. Osama doesn't play golf so that is why OJ has never found him.

[Huck]

If Clinton knew, then I presume the Bush admin knew, too.

[McGruff]

there were several al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and other countries

I forget. Salman Pak, now where was that?

[txhurl]

Seems we came dangerously close to having 'salman pak' mentioned - 'training in 747s'

Or were they 727s..

[epluribus_2]

We don't need this sort of inquiry anyway, we already have the 9/11 commission report, don't we? (fumbling for more free cheese)

[Mr. K]

It's almost as if the MSM thinks that al quaida magically formed in the months after Bush's election, yet before 9/11