Posted on 07/25/2002 11:35:25 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
How could we have been so blind?
That's the question everyone asks with regard to the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.
Why weren't we prepared? Why didn't we get Osama bin Laden when we had the chance? Why weren't the American people warned about the threat of Islamic terrorism? Why weren't more precautions taken?
For the first time, veteran FBI agents are describing a dramatic shift in emphasis at the agency directed by President Clinton.
As WorldNetDaily Washington bureau chief Paul Sperry wrote in yesterday's exclusive report, the Clinton administration chose to focus its intelligence-gathering forces on white, "right-wing," Christian militia groups – at the expense of analyzing data about Islamic terrorism.
This dramatic change in emphasis took place even while Arab nationals were flocking to U.S. flight schools in anticipation of the dramatic hijackings of Sept. 11.
According to the report, some 40 boxes of material left over from the World Trade Center bombing investigation, which lasted through the 1990s, "were never gone through." Many of the Arabic documents were never even translated. Another seven to eight boxes of evidence from the Manila, Philippines, side of the investigation also were never examined, say the FBI agents.
I hate to say it, but I told you so.
Way back on Nov. 1, just six weeks after the terrorist attack, I explained my theory about why we missed it – why we never saw it coming.
How did I know? Because I have a memory. Because I observed the Clinton administration up close and personal. Because, as a victim of Clinton administration civil liberties abuses, I could see it had another target in mind – any other target than Islamic terrorism. The Clinton administration determined to use the FBI as a weapon in its own war against its domestic political enemies. It had no concerns whatsoever about real foreign or domestic threats to the safety and security of the nation.
Back in 1999, well after the first attack on the World Trade Center, after the Oklahoma City bombing and after the downing of TWA Flight 800, the Clinton administration's FBI put out a report on terrorism.
It was called Project Megiddo.
And it explained, in no uncertain terms, that right-wing Christian terrorists posed the gravest danger to the republic and were most likely to incite violence in the months and years ahead.
This was the mindset of the Clinton administration. Right-wing Christians were the perceived threat. They were the enemy. Islamists got short shrift in the FBI report. As I suggested last year, bin Laden was probably bent out of shape by the slight.
The Project Megiddo Report goes a long way toward explaining why the FBI went to great lengths to avoid seeing, hearing or touching any evidence of a Middle East connection in the Oklahoma City bombing. It explains why most Americans are unaware of the fact that Islamist terrorist groups indeed claimed responsibility for downing TWA Flight 800 over Long Island Sound. It explains why the Clinton administration viewed the World Trade Center bombing as some sort of aberration that could be ignored, rather than allow it to serve as a warning of bigger things to come.
It's also worth recalling that while relaxing with a group of reporters after the 1996 elections, Bill Clinton said he owed his political revival to the Oklahoma City bombing. Think about that. Why was that so?
In 1994, Clinton was on the ropes politically. No one expected him to be re-elected. The Republicans had swept into power in both houses of Congress for the first time in a generation. But then that bomb went off.
"It broke a spell in the country as people began searching for common ground again," Clinton explained.
What did Clinton do? He blamed talk radio for broadcasting "a relentless clamor of hatred and division." He planned with the FBI a new anti-terrorist strategy with sweeping new powers.
Thus, the investigations of the Oklahoma City bombing, the TWA Flight 800 downing and the World Trade Center explosion all became politicized. Only evidence that led in one direction would be gathered and evaluated. Evidence that pointed to a conspiracy that pointed anywhere but to right-wing Christians would be ignored, discarded and covered up.
It seems unbelievable, but it's true.
Clinton's own Justice Department inspector general had to admit that the Oklahoma City bombing investigation offered one of the worst examples of de facto evidence tampering by the FBI crime labs.
The FBI had no scientific evidence for concluding the OKC bombing was the result of an ammonium nitrate fertilizer bomb. The Justice Department found that the explosives unit simply guessed that the bomb was made of 4,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate after the FBI found a receipt suggesting Terry Nichols had purchased that amount. No tests were conducted. No detonator was recovered.
There was no explanation offered for reports broadcast widely the day of the bombing that two other larger bombs were found unexploded in the Alfred P. Murrah Building. The FBI steadfastly refused – even to this day – to accept or examine evidence suggesting Nichols had contact with Islamic terrorists and that some were on the scene the day of the bombing.
Few paid any attention to the World Trade Center bombing trial, which brought to light evidence of a much broader Islamist conspiracy.
Few media outlets bothered to tell the world of the Islamist groups that claimed to have brought down TWA Flight 800.
Thus, the FBI put all of its terrorist eggs in one suspect political basket – the right-wing Christian basket. That's where the FBI focused its attention officially beginning in 1996, the record shows.
Is it any wonder why they missed the real terrorists? Is it any wonder why they looked in all the wrong places for all the wrong reasons? Is it any wonder that 3,000 Americans unnecessarily lost their lives as a result?
Let me conclude by saying Clinton bears a tremendous amount of responsibility for politicizing the FBI. But let me add that unless the current administration recognizes the deliberate frauds that were perpetrated on the American people, holds those responsible accountable and makes the necessary changes in the agency, it will be equally culpable.
And, more importantly, we will never solve the real problems of terrorism that are plaguing this country.
Hey...who DID kill Ron Brown?!
MUD
Look forward to meeting you on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in October, my FRiend...MUD
I always thought he was the most overrated criminal. I also wonder just how many abortion doctors actually have been murdered? Since they probably always got huge media coverage, it probably hasn't been many. Today's media would like to equate the threat from "abortion clinic bombers" with the threat from Middle Eastern terrorists. They do not want to look honestly at the situation.
See you and the FallGuy in October...MUD
...Just for the CLARITY of it...
See Sept. 11th Threads:
'Guilty CLINTON: "It ain't my Fault" (9-11-01)'
in -Operation Enduring Freedom- Forum Section of.. www.Newsmax.com
'September 11, 2001--Another Day That Will Live in Infamy'
in -General Discussion/Off Topic- Forum Section of.. www.WeWereSoldiersFILM.com
NEVER FORGET
.."WE WERE SOLDIERS"..(DVD = Aug. 20th)..
.."That's just ..OUTSTANDING!!!"
Tell that to the sheeple in NY who elected Hitlery to the senate.
The people who directed his plane into the ground.
Most all of the Freepers that are reading or are posting on this subject are aware of what has been going on with the corrupt Clintoon Administration, but sadly most of the Dims don't have a clue. They think that "this talk is all politics and both parties are all the same".
This Administration must demonstrate these traitorous acts to the public with front page stories and criminal prosecutions in order to get any reaction from them. If this is not done we stand to lose the coming elections and then we will face an Impeachment of President G W B by these wonderful Dims. I don't want to see what that scenario could do to the Country. We might not be able to survive it.
Please, please do something Dubya.
Have a nice day.
Boy, does this article touch on old (but still sensitive) nerves. Its reference to Project Megiddo forces me to remember just how intent the Clinton administration and its (so-called) justice department were on eradicating their political enemies.
It was claimed that Megiddo was drafted in response to possible civil uprisings by ‘extremist groups’ as the Y2K (non-)crisis approached. But all it really amounted to was a case of federal government categorizing (as a threat to national security) of Americans based on their desire to exercise their Second Amendment freedom, or their religious affiliation.
The Megiddo travesty not only exemplified unconstitutional machinations at their worst, but even the writing and grammar contained in it were unprofessional and smacked of (the) profiling (that its leftist authors now claim to abhor). It is replete with fascist key-propaganda-words such as ‘paramilitary’ and ‘right-wing’ – hardly appropriate in an official federal government document (unless, of course, said document was authored by Clinton-era cronies. In which case, anything goes….)
Sickeningly, a militia was defined as two or more persons with firearms who engage in paramilitary (gasp!) training (our Founders would surely ask where that perverted definition originated. It bears absolutely no resemblance to theirs). Apparently, veterans’ groups, gun clubs, military schools, Civil War re-enactors, and the like now fall under the heading of militias (and, by Megiddo standards, are threats to the republic).
So, while the FBI was busy profiling American gun owners and church-goers, Arab nationals were flocking to U.S. flight schools, virtually unhindered. And evidence which pertained to the earlier bombing of the WTC wasn’t deemed important enough to analyze.
You know, when Clinton’s coterie of apologists was reciting the ‘It’s all about his personal life. It doesn’t affect his running of the country’ catechism, we should have listened. The Lewinsky/Broaddrick/Wiley/Jones adultery/rape/sexual misconduct behaviors were pretty immaterial in the grand scheme of things. When an American president’s preoccupation (during two full terms) is (1) destroying his nation’s national security, and (2) declaring its own citizens ‘enemies of the republic’ (while seeking to allow real enemies more freedom and movement than those he purports to govern), his sexual escapades are indeed pretty irrelevant.
In spite of the inroads to our demise that our ideological enemies made during the Clinton years, our greatest enemies lay (then), and still lie (now), within our own borders. And they are still aiding and abetting, pretty much unfettered.
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