Report: CIA knew two Sept. 11 hijackers in U.S

cnn.com ^ | June 2, 2002 Posted: 12:46 PM EDT (1646 GMT) | Reuters

[Spar]

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Months before the September 11 attacks, the CIA knew two of the hijackers were in the United States and that they were connected to the al Qaeda organization, Newsweek reported Sunday.

[Spar]

Why where al-Qaeda agents, linked to the Chechen group that attacked the USS Cole allowed visas and were able to live openly and enter and leave the States at will during Clinton's presidency?

Accuracy In Media has a hypothesis which they call Clinton's BIN LADEN GATE.

[Spar]

F.B.I. Agent Says Superior Altered Report, Foiling Inquiry (Chechnya Link Was Ignored)

Agent Linked Pilot Trainees, Bin Laden (Chechens Attacked USS Cole-Bosnian 9-11 Connection Revealed)

[brightx]

Looks liks these guys could have taken out full page ads proclaiming there intentions, and nobody would hasve noticed. This thing just gets stranger and stranger.

[Spar]

Somehow this is not adding up anymore. Either this is gross incompetence or treason.

[Spar]

Why where were al-Qaeda agents.....

[Betty Jo]

And now a musical interlude:

You gotta have friends!

[ilgipper]

Maybe if the Clinton Administration had allowed the transition team to take over when they are supposed to, and the lefty Senators would have approved Ashcroft instead of requiring him to spend his first two months after nomination preparing for hearings rather than focusing on preparing for office , these agencies might have gotten more attention sooner.

people think those political games are just part of the system, but it cost us dearly.

[Alan Chapman]

It's a matter of priority and integrity on the part of those in power now. Not who used to be in power. As soon as GWB entered office his first priority was to campaign around the country, promising government money to everyone in exchange for votes in the next election. He should've been using his veto power to close useless and wasteful government agencies, streamline the federal government, and weed out waste and incompetence so the federal government could properly do its #1 job -- protect the people and property of the US.

[Spar]

I don't think that is it at all. Does it have to do with a foreign policy that went bad, blowback in the extreme??

[Spar]

see my #9

[swarthyguy]

Friends in high places exerting pressure and spiking investigations. Somebody with money and enough mutuality of interests to overcome any pangs of conscience or self-preservation instincts.

Probably a nefarious plan by the Zionist Lobby to use the attacks to further their worldwide agenda. ;0

[John W]

Surely you don't mean the "if we had just treated the arab and/or islamic world better this wouldn't have happened" thesis?

[Monty22]

They are teletyping their next attack to us already. The islamic world is ready, willing, and able to wreck the Western World.. Soon.

[Spar]

OOHHHH!! very much the opposite, John W!!! Maybe "they" (who ever "they" are) were too friendly to Islamic insurgency movements in the 90s?

As yourself, under Clinton the USA went to war twice for Muslims insurgents in the Balkans (Bosnia and Kosovo) and gave diplomatic support to several others (Macedonian Albanians, Chechens, Chinese Muslim groups).

So I ask "Did we lay down with dogs and get up with fleas? And did we scratch the fleas too late?"

[marajade]

As soon as GWB entered office his first priority was to campaign around the country, promising government money to everyone in exchange for votes in the next election.

Really? And why was he criticized when he failed to campaign for Bret Schundler in NJ or the candidate in South Carolina?

[marajade]

Maybe because it wasn't in the CIA's legislative authority to do so?

[hove]

Treason. Lots of treason all around.

[marajade]

Really? I'd love for you to expand on that allegation...

[Spar]

What I wrote in the above is what the Accuracy In Media hypothesis is asking. I mean there is no doubt that US policy under Clinton was on the same side as al-Qaeda in many of those conflicts. The logic and probability indicate that if two groups are on the same side pretty soon there is bvound to be a convergence.

[Spar]

If not treason then what? Read the linked Bin Laden Gate article.