Posted on 10/11/2001 7:26:35 AM PDT by Askel5
Pataki Names Ex-F.B.I. Man to New PostBy JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.Gov. George E. Pataki yesterday named the former head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York to head a new state office in charge of bolstering security to prevent terrorist attacks.Mr. Pataki said James K. Kallstrom, 58, a former marine who spent 27 years in the F.B.I., was the ideal person to coordinate police departments across the state to tighten security and act as a liaison with federal law enforcement authorities. "Jim Kallstrom is too good a person, too experienced a person, to be on the sidelines when the nation is at war with this terrorism," Mr. Pataki said. Mr. Kallstrom was put in charge of the F.B.I.'s New York office in 1995, and gained widespread attention in 1996 for heading up the criminal inquiry into the explosion that killed all 230 people on Trans World Airlines Flight 800. That 16-month inquiry eventually disproved Mr. Kallstrom's initial theory that the disaster had resulted from a terrorist attack. He retired in late 1997 and became a vice president of MBNA Corporation, a credit card company in Delaware. [cha-ching!] Mr. Kallstrom, a blunt-spoken man with longstanding friends throughout federal law enforcement agencies, said he had agreed to take a [PAID]leave from his corporate job to set up the state's newly created Office of Public Security in part because of the deep anger he felt over the attacks. He lost several friends in the disaster, he said. "I have been sitting now looking at television, and a good part of my emotion is directed here, at the city," he said. "There was a nagging part of my body and heart that wanted to do something." Mr. Kallstrom, who will report directly to the governor, will be asked to devise an overarching strategy to guard New York State against terrorist threats, Mr. Pataki said. Every state agency has been ordered to provide him with resources. Mr. Kallstrom said he had not had enough time to identify what gaps, if any, existed in the security network, but he promised to meet with every law enforcement agency in the state and vet the measures being taken and identify lapses. He said part of his focus would be to persuade citizens to report anything suspicious to the police. "I suspect we are in pretty good shape," he said. "I would encourage people in New York State to go about their business but have a little more peripheral vision, and tell the cops when they think something is not quite right." In choosing Mr. Kallstrom, Mr. Pataki has reached out to someone with a great deal of knowledge about the Islamic terrorist networks in this region, having been part of the investigation into the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 and later plots by other Islamic fundamentalist terrorists with links to Osama bin Laden. In the early 1990's, Mr. Kallstrom was promoted to head the bureau's engineering and technical services division in Washington, but he returned to New York three years later. He is generally known as one of the foremost experts in the country on electronic surveillance, encryption, the Internet and other high-tech investigative techniques. He also has a reputation as a compassionate man with rhetorical skills who can use the bully pulpit to galvanize support for antiterrorist measures. Mr. Kallstrom will not be paid by the state and will continue to receive a salary from MBNA Corporation. [Kewl!] It remains unclear how long he will serve at the pleasure of the governor, but aides to Mr. Pataki said he would stay at least through next year, and perhaps longer.
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FBI Ex-Official Kallstrom Named NY Security Director (Bloomberg, by JohnHuang2)
Narrow the search for "Kallstrom" on FR (Google)
Kallstrom helped Clinton cover up the missile downing of TWA 800, IMHO.
I guess things are getting back to "normal".
| But I raised it in the context, and I don't want to delay all of this, but I raised it in the context -- I came back from a conference on terrorism back in 1980. I was over in, not Berlin, I was in Bonn, and I went to a conference on terrorism and I spoke there, Henry Kissinger was there, Helmut Schmidt was there, and as I came out of the hotel I saw the hotel was surrounded by APCs, armored personnel carriers. And all the soldiers or policemen had automatic weapons. I looked at that and I said, I wonder, would any American city allow VIPs to be protected by virtual tanks in the street? And it had been just after a guy named Schleier, a banker, had been assassinated, stuffed in his trunk of a Mercedes car, so there was real tension over there, and there was some real protection underway. I said no, it will never happen in the United States. Then I said well wait a minute. What happens if the terrorists come to the United States and the bombs start going off, the killing starts here? Would we as the American people, say protect our liberties or protect our lives? We've never had to have that debate at this point. And so when you have an Oklahoma City bombing that's taken place, and you have others who may not be domestic but international, what will be the reaction of the American people? Will they say the government's responsibility is to protect us, and we say absolutely, but how do we do that? Do we do it through the local police? The National Guard? The Guard and Reserve? Or do we call upon the military in extremists to provide protection and to help with what they call consequence management? DefenseLink -- Cohen Breakfast Meeting with Reporters in Washington, D.C. (1/11/2001) From The Message They're Sending is the Essentially the Same Thing
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Funny you mention that. In related news ...
| Pataki Defends Request for $54 Billion From Congress to Aid New York (Also by McKinley) Gov. George E. Pataki defended his request for $54 billion from Congress to help New York recover from terrorist attacks, including a proposal to use federal aid to balance the state budget.... ... He said he would argue, as in recent days, that New York City played a pivotal role in the nation's economy and that the attack on the World Trade Center was in reality an attack on the entire nation. Thus the "international response". How about money FROM the UN as well?
... One part of his plan likely to meet resistance is a request for $3 billion to finance transportation projects, including rail, road and bridge upgrades in upstate New York. ... Even Mr. Pataki's comrade in arms, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, appeared to distance himself from the governor when he said in his budget address earlier this week that the federal government could best help the city by cutting taxes. The New York delegation is supporting Mr. Pataki, though some say parts of the plan will be a tough sell. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said some of the state's proposals, like tax-exempt bonds for developers, might fit in the economic stimulus bill being drafted. "New York was severely attacked," she said. "I think you can make a very strong argument that they are stimulative. There are arguments that I think are legitimate." |
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Mr. Kallstrom, a blunt-spoken man with longstanding friends throughout federal law enforcement agencies, said he had agreed to take a [PAID]leave from his corporate job to set up the state's newly created Office of Public Security in part because of the deep anger he felt over the attacks. He lost several friends in the disaster, he said.
Feelling guilty, Jimmy? He knew that TWA 800 was taken down by a terrorist missile, but he allowed himself to be co-opted into hiding that. We'll never know whether he was bribed, blackmailed, threatened, or just plain fooled by X42 spin ('the people can't take the truth...'); but if he had stood for the truth then, his friends--and everybody else's--might not have had to go through 911.
OTOH it might not have made any difference. X42 would just have said, 'we'll hunt them down...' and then proceeded to do nothing or maybe bomb a camel or some sheep... Nevertheless he should have told us the truth then and how can we trust him to do so now?
Moot point. The fact he's taking a paid leave from his credit card company sinecure to "fight the good fight" says it all for me.
clinton appointed to head up Ethics Committee?
Tenet
the new FBI director now Kallstrom
Don't the idiots inside the Republican party UNDERSTAND WHAT IS AT STAKE?????
Sorry for the rant. Have been away. Come back and see this about Kallstrom and blood pressure just shot through the roof.
I think if you read the Cohen excerpt, you undersand that indeed the GOP does know exactly what's up. IMHO, they just let the Dems "run the ball" as it were.
Like the way they outfitted Clinton with a federal police force and then wiped his weapons clean "under cover of election crisis" on November 8, 2000 with Danforth's final report.
And, on that note ... an article from Mark Steyn (who's been a great source of Blood Trail articles) ...
Exactly one month ago today, just an hour after those planes slammed into the World Trade Center, Jo Moore, a senior advisor to Britain's Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, turned away from the TV and composed an e-mail for departmental circulation: "It's now a very good day to get out anything we want to bury." ....
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