Daniel Benjamin
Posted on 10/09/2005 11:03:19 AM PDT by FairOpinion
Only in America could you disgrace your nation so badly, be arguably one of the worst leaders of our country, and still make hundreds of thousands giving speeches to a bunch of idiots.
ohhhhhhh. Well, duh on me!
If this is a criminal offense of the first order, what rank does lying to a Grand Jury hold?
Unbelievable, just unbelievable....trolling for money when Americans died by terrorists.
“Clinton’s face was flushed with anger as he rolled up his sleeve while one of his Navy physicians drew the sample. A prosecutor and federal agent fixed their gaze on the vial the entire time, fearful that Clinton’s team might try a surreptitious switch.” Such was the mutual distrust between Mr Starr and Mr Clinton that the former President’s lawyer ordered a second blood sample in case Mr Starr resorted to dirty tricks, according to Mr Harris.
Harris could be counted on to cravenly repeat the idiotic "mutual distrust" line he was given by the clinton camp when it was not "distrust" but a typical petulance from clinton. The clinton team knew damn well the feds weren't going to do any "dirty tricks".
Klinton gets kudos because a foreign leader indicts somebody for being involved in a terrorist attack. Our current president gets hammered because he doesn't negotiate endlessly with Europe and the Arab League to do something about terrorism. Instead, he stepped up and did something. Apparently half of America prefers talk to action.
Freeh finally wrote what most of us here already knew. There's nothing new with seeing the Clinton Clean-Up Machine in high gear...
What will happen with this info from Freeh? Will Clinton sue Freeh? Will congress start an inquiry?
Anyone with a crystal ball?
Why not? He was hot for a mummy.
"Daniel Benjamin, a former Clinton aide, said that the former President “pushed the Crown Prince quite hard” over the Khobar Towers investigation, and won Saudi co-operation that led to indictments."
In an important new book, Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, two former counterterrorism officials on President Bill Clinton's National Security Council (NSC) staff, vividly recount this history, describing how al Qaeda emerged and how America responded.
Benjamin, the National Security Council's director for counterterrorism during the Clinton administration, and Simon, its first senior director of counterterrorism, here argue that Osama bin Laden is not the root of terrorist evil but merely a branch. Chillingly, the authors signed the contract for this book before September 11.
Daniel Benjamin, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, was director for counterterrorism on the National Security Council staff.
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TALK ABOUT *SS COVERING!!!
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The Age of Sacred Terror: Radical Islam's War against America
Did the Republican crusade to bring down President Bill Clinton ultimately cause a shift of attention from the need to protect the nation against Islamic terror threats? Benjamin and Simon, who served in Clinton's White House as counterterrorism experts, explain how the former president's "obsession" with getting Osama bin Laden was unavoidably sidetracked by the multiple investigations into his personal life, not to mention the enmity of Clinton's own FBI director, Louis Freeh. Freeh, the authors claim, arrogantly refused to follow the orders of Attorney General Janet Reno (whom he reported to), thus preventing key data on terrorist threats from getting into the right hands.
"Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon began working on this book shortly after leaving the National Security Council, where, as director and senior director for counterterrorism, they watched the rise of al-Qaeda and helped coordinate America's fight against Usama bin Laden and his organization. They warned in articles and interviews about the appearance of a new breed of terrorists who were determined to kill on the grand scale. More than a year before September 11, 2001, they began writing The Age of Sacred Terror to sound the alarm for a nation that had not recognized the gravest threat of our time." One of their book's original goals has remained: to provide the insights to understand an enemy unlike any seen in living memory - one with an extraordinary ability to detect weakness and exploit it, one with a determination to inflict catastrophic damage, one that will not be deterred. But after September 11, a second, equally crucial goal was added: to understand how America let its defenses down, how warnings went unheeded, and how key parts of the government failed at vital tasks. The Age of Sacred Terror also describes the road ahead, where the terrorists will look to draw strength, and what the United States must do, at home and abroad, to stop them.
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HE WORKED AS A JOURNALIST AT THE WALL STREET JOURNAL & TIME MAGAZINE!!! What was that about SELECTING people to work in government WITHOUT qualifications?!!! CLINTON SELECTED him for counterterrorism which included coordinating U.S. counterterrorism policy!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO WONDER thousands of innocent people were killed by TERRORISTS! A JOURNALIST was running CLINTON'S counterterroism "policy"!!!
HELLO!!!
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"Before entering the government, Benjamin was Berlin bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal. He has been a foreign correspondent and staff writer for Time magazine."
Daniel Benjamin is a senior fellow in the CSIS International Security Program. Prior to joining CSIS in January 2001, he was Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace. From 1994 to1999, he served on the National Security Council staff. In 1998-1999, he was director for transnational threats. His principal responsibilities were in the area of counterterrorism and included coordinating U.S. counterterrorism policy, programs, and budgets within the federal government. From 1994 to 1997, he was a special assistant to the president and National Security Council director for speechwriting. Before entering the government, Benjamin was Berlin bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal. He has been a foreign correspondent and staff writer for Time magazine. His recent publications include articles in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, New York Review of Books, and Survival, and he is a frequent columnist for the international edition of Time.
Well, did the Saudis contribute anything and, if so, how much and from whom?
Jay Carson, Mr Clinton’s spokesman, said: “This is clearly a total work of fiction, written by a man who’s desperate to clear his name. It’s unfortunate that he’d stoop to this level in his desperate attempt to rewrite history.
OK, now I'm confused....is a talking about Clinton or Freeh??!!
Daniel Benjamin
I thought I was the only one that thought that
It makes perfect sense. To liberal Democrats, denial is a river in Egypt.
All of this was in the original FR post. Where's the new stuff?
I have always suspected there was a reason the RAT party has done everything in their power to maintain U.S. dependency on arab oil by claiming we can't drill "there" because a microbe might be disturbed from his nap. I wager Clinton is not the only RAT to solicit money from arab oil interests.
I thought the Chinese stuff was not in the original post:
"They clashed repeatedly, including over an FBI inquiry into alleged Chinese efforts to funnel campaign donations to Democrats, an inquiry that Mr Freeh never told Mr Clinton about. Mr Clinton soon referred to the FBI chief as “F****** Freeh”, seeing him as an agent for the Republicans. "
Daniel Benjamin
"Before entering the government, Benjamin was Berlin bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal. He has been a foreign correspondent and staff writer for Time magazine."
From 1994 to1999, he served on the National Security Council staff in the Clinton administration. In 1998-1999, he was director for transnational threats. His principal responsibilities were in the area of counterterrorism and included coordinating U.S. counterterrorism policy, programs, and budgets within the federal government. From 1994 to 1997, he was a special assistant to the president and National Security Council director.
Hillary 2008, if you let her get elected you deserve them both AGAIN!
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How ANYONE, even the brainwashed, mindless Thugocrats, could vote for this criminal, evil, anti-American, anti-military, TOTALLY UNQUALIFIED Marxist medusa, is beyond any comprehension.
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