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"But that was 30 years ago, and now it is time to move on" "But, because of the nature of the war we fought we came back to a country that did not recognize our contribution" The Navy Public Affairs Library (NAVPALIB) A service of the Navy Office of Information, Washington DC Send feedback/questions to navpalib@opnav-emh.navy.mil Senator John Kerry Swift Boat Ceremony Washington, DC - June 17, 1995 Admiral Boorda, Admiral Zumwalt, Admiral Will, Admiral Moore, Admiral Hoffman, Congressman Kolbe, families, friends and my fellow Swifties. We have come here today -- with respect and love -- to complete the...

........A high wall, in fact, stands between the Justice Department, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, on the one hand, and the national security agencies on the other. Once arrests are made, the trials of individual perpetrators take bureaucratic precedence over everything else. The Justice Department inherits primary investigatory jurisdiction, and the business of the Justice Department is above all the prosecution and conviction of individual criminals. Once that process is underway, the Justice Department typically denies information to the national security bureaucracies, taking the position that passing on information might "taint the evidence" and affect prospects for obtaining convictions....

<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. intelligence report in 1995 raised the possibility of a foreign terrorist attack inside the United States and a 1997 update named Osama bin Laden, U.S. intelligence officials said on Friday in trying to offset a highly critical report from the Sept. 11 commission.</p>

Office of the Attorney GeneralWashington, DC 20530July 19, 1995 MEMORANDUMTO: Assistant Attorney General, Criminal DivisionDirector, FBICounsel for Intelligence PolicyUnited States Attorneys FROM: The Attorney General [signed: Janet Reno] SUBJECT: Procedures for Contacts Between the FBI and the Criminal Division Concerning Foreign Intelligence and Foreign Counterintelligence Investigations The procedures contained herein, unless otherwise specified by the Attorney General, apply to foreign intelligence (FI) and foreign counterintelligence (FCI) investigations conducted by the FBI, including investigations related to espionage and foreign and international terrorism. The purpose of these procedures is to ensure that FI and FCI investigations are conducted lawfully, and that...

Gorelick in 1995 recommended separating counterintelligence activities from "counter-criminal" activities Just declassified by Ashcroft. We're finally defending ourselves!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1117538/posts Sensenbrenner Calls on Gorelick to Resign From Sept. 11 CommissionTampa Bay on line (AP) ^ | 04-14-04 | The Associated Press Kinda blows a hole the size of the Grand Canyon into this whole "Independent, Non-partisan" 9/11 Commission, eh?The only person who previously knew about this memo was Gorelick and she was covering up to protect herself.     -And already, information on the internet is being "scrubbed"-- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1117286/posts?page=26#26     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1117388/posts GORELICK GATE: Gorelick Memo Exposes 'Feckless' Clinton PolicyInsight On The News ^ | April 13, 2004 | By Kenneth R. Timmerman     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1117383/posts GORELICK GATE: Rule...

Gorelick Memo Exposes 'Feckless' Clinton Policy Posted April 13, 2004 By Kenneth R. Timmerman In a dramatic moment of his testimony before the 9/11 commission this afternoon, Attorney General John Ashcroft released a previously classified memo from 1995 that instructed the FBI and U.S. Attorneys around the country to ensure they had "walled off" overseas intelligence information from domestic crime-fighters. The separation between overseas intelligence gathering and domestic criminal prosecution has been widely criticized by both Democrats and Republicans on the committee for having helped make the 9/11 attacks possible. "[T]he simple fact of Sept. 11 is this," Ashcroft testified:...

May 4, 1995 Kenneth J. Cooper; Washington Post Staff Writer Deputy Attorney General Jamie S. Gorelick yesterday said the Clinton administration planned to drop its proposal to give the president absolute power to designate groups as terrorist organizations. Under the administration's proposed legislation to combat international terrorism, Americans would be prohibited from raising funds to support groups the president deemed as terrorist. The original bill would not allow court challenges to the president's designations. "We will recommend deletion of the assertions in that bill that the president's designations are unreviewable or conclusive," Gorelick said in testimony to the House Judiciary...

<p>MANILA, Philippines (CNN) -- The FBI was warned six years ago of a terrorist plot to hijack commercial planes and slam them into the Pentagon, the CIA headquarters and other buildings, Philippine investigators told CNN.</p> <p>Philippine authorities learned of the plot after a small fire in a Manila apartment, which turned out to be the hideout of Ramzi Yousef, who was later convicted for his role in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Yousef escaped at the time, but agents caught his right-hand man, Abdul Hakim Murad, who told them a chilling tale.</p>

DALLAS (AP) -- President Bush on Monday accused John Kerry of having proposed "deeply irresponsible" cuts in intelligence spending just two years after the first attack on the World Trade Center, part of a re-election effort to depict his Democratic rival as weak on national security and the war against terrorism. Bush, during a fund-raiser in Dallas, called attention to a 1995 bill that Kerry sponsored to trim intelligence spending by $1.5 billion over five years. The cut was part of what Kerry called a "budget-buster bill" to strip $90 billion from the budget and end 40 programs that he...

WASHINGTON : The U.S. has given weapons-grade uranium to 43 countries including Pakistan since the 1950s under the Atoms for Peace programme and is making little effort to get them back, a government department reported. The Department of Energy said in a report that among the countries which have refused to return the material are Pakistan , Iran , Israel , Mexico , Jamaica and South Africa . The reasons for declining vary. Some of the bomb-grade uranium is in use at research universities and institutions that do not want to give it up. Jon Wolfsthal, who ran the recovery...

A Japanese chemist who oversaw the development of nerve gas used in a 1995 attack on the Tokyo subway has been sentenced to death. Masami Tsuchiya, 39, became the 11th member of the Aum Shinrikyo cult that carried out the attack to be sentenced to death. Prosecutors said he was the second most important person behind the attack, after the cult's leader Shoko Asahara. The verdict on Mr Asahara's seven-year trial is expected next month. Tsuchiya was enrolled on a doctorate programme in chemistry at Tsukuba University when he became involved with Aum, according to Kyodo news agency. He was...

HOWARD DEAN: PRO-MUSLIM WARMONGER AND HYPOCRITE by Srdja Trifkovic -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/News/Trifkovic/NewsViews.htm January 16, 2004 The revelation that in 1995 Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean urged President Clinton to enter the war in Bosnia on the Muslim side, and to do so unilaterally, exposes him as a warmonger and a hypocrite. One of the pillars of Dean’s campaign has been his severe criticism of what he calls President Bush’s unilateralism: “This unilateral approach to foreign policy is a disaster,” he declared in April last year, referring to Iraq. “All of the challenges facing the United States—from winning the war on terror...

<p>In a rare step, the Justice Department is re-examining its investigation into the 1995 death of a federal prisoner that the victim's family alleges was a murder at the hands of the government. Several official inquiries ruled the death a suicide.</p>

The war crimes tribunal in The Hague has heard allegations that former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic ordered the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. A former Bosnian Serb politician, Miroslav Deronjic, said Mr Karadzic told him days before the massacre that all local Muslims needed to be killed. Mr Deronjic was testifying at a pre-appeal hearing for General Radislav Krstic, who was partly responsible. The tribunal has charged Mr Karadzic with genocide over Srebrenica. Mr Deronjic confessed to war crimes. He was a civilian head of the Bratunac municipality near Srebrenica when the Bosnian Serb's political leader Mr Karadzic told him on...

The Path Not Followed 1995 Deportee's Trail Could Have Led U.S. Gov't To Ayman Al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda Uranium Plot, U.S.-based Terror Finance Network, 1998 Embassy Bombing, Southeast Asia Terror Kingpin and 9/11 Plotters If the FBI had thoroughly investigated Mohammed Jamal Khalifa when they had him in custody in December 1994, they could have uncovered leads to several pending terrorist attacks - up to and including September 11. The Saudi businessman was detained by the U.S. for nearly six months before being deported to Jordan in April 1995 at the insistence of the State Department. He was allowed to leave...

CATASTROPHIC INTELLIGENCE FAILURE In 1995, the CIA and the FBI learned that Osama bin Laden was planning to hijack U.S. airliners and use them as bombs to attack important targets in the U.S. This scheme was called Project Bojinka. It was discovered in the Philippines, where authorities arrested two of bin Laden's agents, Ramzi Yousef and Abdul Hakim Murad. They were involved in planting a bomb on a Philippine airliner. Project Bojinka, which Philip-pine authorities found outlined on Abdul Murad's laptop, called for planting bombs on eleven U.S. airliners and hijacking others and crashing them into targets like the CIA ...

Clinton pledged that the U.S. mission -- expected to last up to a year -- would be limited, focused and under the command of an American general.

FEDS TAKE PROPERTY FOR A TRAIL; TAKE TAXPAYERS FOR A RIDE William Perry Pendley President and Chief Legal Officer   On May 22, 2002, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims ordered the United States to pay J. Paul and Patricia Preseault of Burlington, Vermont, for the unconstitutional taking of their property, that is, without paying for it. The United States was ordered to pay: $234,000, plus interest from the February 5, 1986, date of the taking, for a total of $551,931.30; and $894,855.60 in attorneys' fees. The United States will be writing a check for $1,446,786.90! The United States...