Posted on 05/15/2016 5:34:36 AM PDT by HomerBohn
A much simpler program would’ve prevented 9/11:
Pursuing expired Visas.
Except perhaps for Bill Clinton, presidents lately have not come across as resourceful people who think for themselves and get independent council. They seem hand-picked for willingness to bow to the preset agenda. That's why anyone outside the parameters (both political parties) gets marginalized.
Bottom line....I can't think of anything that disproves your theory.
Please, saying the future should have been known a dozen years past this catastrophic mass murder is preposterous. How bout placing the blame on the Muslims instead of denigrating Americans.
Keeping all those Clintonistas and making nice has worked out so well for the “compassionate conservative”.
Yep. Al queda attacked the WTC, our embassies, a navy ship and more between 1993 and 2000. All on clinton’s watch. One hit during Bushs term and they we took major action. Tired of the Bush bashing on this issue.””
The idea is to always blame Americans and the sad part is, some Americans believe it.
several federal agencies/branches of government reported that the Clinton budget cuts caused many security programs to be shut down. it can be found on the 9/11 report that most of the findings have been released to the public.
One of NSA’s main problems is simply too much data and no good way to search and correlate it all.
Case in point: back in the 60’s two Russian generals made a long distance phone call via their troposphere scatter system one said to the other a numerical reference which was to a frame number in their public TV broadcast - the frame in question had classified diagrams on their space program.
So for years we listened to and recorded private Russian phone calls hoping for the same thing to happen again. But as there was so much of it most was never actually listened to - so the resulting tapes were (and likely still are) stored in some NSA warehouse never searched and never listened to because it would take centuries to go through all of it..
bush’s fault..
See my post at 17 - It was not possible to pursue Mohammad Atta on any grounds.
It seems doubtful that security at the NSA is so bad that they let in anyone with a janitor disguise.
Well said. I’d still like to know what Sandy Berger removed from the archives to protect the boss. While we’re at it cleaning the FBI, NSA and CIA have housecleaning to do as well.
ASA Vet ping
lemme guess.. Hillary was against any elimination of spying programs too...
There you go. Not every problem has a simple solution, but many do.
> Is it so far fetched to think the commercial aircraft in Sal Pak (outside Bagdad) were used to train hijackers and some of these were among the 9/11 terrorists? Saddam claimed credit for the 9/11 attacks. Maybe it was true.
Yes, not only is it completely far-fetched, it is outright false, and in 2016 you should smack yourself for still being of a mind to pin 9/11 on Hussein. The Salman Pak plane is the same thing we do here to train emergency personnel, its existence implies nothing else.
9/11 was done by the Saudis, perhaps with the cooperation of the Bush administration. That latter point remains unsettled.
Will there be enough lead to plug the leaks before the dam breaks?
History says "Yes!" but then, who writes history?
Actually, your post 17 refers to the inability to share intel on any grounds at that time due to the Gorelick wall, not any kind of diplomatic protection.
Similarly, if NSA snoops something illegal on you, they can’t give it to the cops to go nab you.
But it doesn’t stop the cops from finding out on their own that you’re up to no good and going after you.
So lack of intel sharing doesn’t stop INS from pursuing expired visas and forwarding their own case to the FBI if they think there’s more going on there than an inattentive student.
100%, as much as any one person can be
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