Bill Clinton's culpability in Sept. 11 terror attacks: Farah shows FBI pattern

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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."

I tend to follow this stuff relatively closely, but I'm just beginning to understand how purely anti-American this Project Megiddo actually was!! Targeting American citizens who the Federal Leviathan believes are a danger because they insist on protecting--and retaining--those rights that were clearly defined in the United States Constitution!!

"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)."

I wonder if paintball leagues are still being infiltrated by Federal Agents?!

"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."

It is becoming increasingly clear that Osama bil Clinton was directly responsible for the Tragedy that occurred on 9/11/01...his policy changes and Executive Branch lapses left the US extremely vulnerable to terrorism and the Terrorists also were emboldened by Slick Willie's unwillingness to punish those who would kill Americans here and abroad. William Jefferson Blythe Clinton has blood on his hands for Waco, Kosovo, and now, the WTC and Pentagon. I defy anyone to try and argue otherwise.

"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."

Here's a thread from December 1999--"Monica Outed to Hide Treason"--that makes the case that MonicaGate was leaked to divert attention from Bill Clinton's even more serious crimes. In it, I stated the following opinion...

"IMHO, however Monica came into the public eye, the Clintonistas recognized a good thing when they saw it, and allowed it to serve as the "poster-boy" of Clinton Scandals. The GOP, incorrectly believing they had found their silver-bullet, failed in their constitutional duty to defend the sanctity of our Guv'ment by refusing to hold the Executive Branch responsible for the plethora of crimes that dwarfed those exposed in the Lewinsky Sleaze. Of course, the Lame-Stream Media Whore'd willingly played along in hyping the Lewinsky-Gate while ignoring the Abuses of Power and the Treason.

Well, apparently, Slick Willie's political gambit worked...however, only for the time being!! Folks, it will only prove to be ultimately successful if we on the Right allow it to drop. Bill Clinton now represents everything that is bad about Big Guv'ment and the concentration of so much Power in the hands of so few, and we must continue to attack Clinton not only until the day he leaves office, but until the day that he meets his maker, and then beyond.

Clinton IS a Perjurer, Clinton IS an Obstructer of Justice, Clinton IS a Rapist, Clinton IS a Vile Abuser of Power, Clinton IS a shameless Slaughterer of Innocents (Waco & Kosovo), and of course Clinton IS a Traitor to this Country and the Constitution he swore an oath to defend!! However, most of all, Clinton is Power-lusting Tyrant who has used the Power inherent in his office to hold himself above the Rule of Law that he and his administration were elected to "execute." This cannot stand!! In addition to running our campaigns to devolve power out of DeeCee and turn back the last 40 years of Socialist Creep, we must once again insist that our elected officials weigh in on all the latest allegations against Bill Clinton and his Outlaw Administration!!! The DemonRATS, as a virtual bloc vote, are now on record approving and condoning Perjury and Obstruction of Justice...will they similarly condone Abuse of Power, Dereliction of Duty, Bribery, and Treason?!!

RE-IMPEACH. CONVICT. DETHRONE. DISBAR. DE-PENSION. INDICT. CONVICT. IMPRISON. Then throw away the frickin' key!!!!

Evil only succeeds when the Righteous fail to respond...MUD

45 Posted on 12/06/1999 09:38:05 PST by Mudboy Slim (impeach@gain.harder!!)

"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.

Nawww, my FRiend, they are bein' fettered, and the Leftist DemonRATS shall be defeated!!

Utmost FReegards...MUD

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