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Report Ends Much Debate
| Fri, 07-23-2004 - 5:47pm |
WOLFOWITZ--STRIKE BIN LADEN HARD
Richard Clarke has gone after Paul Wolfowitz very aggressively as Mr. Iraq who had no interest in bin Laden. But check out page 214, describing a pre-9/11 debate over the Predator. Wolfowitz wanted a robust military option:
"The Defense Department favored strong action. Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz questioned the United States’ ability to deliver Bin Ladin and bring him to justice. He favored going after Bin Ladin as part of a larger air strike, similar to what had been done in the 1986 U.S. strike against Libya. General Myers emphasized the Predator’s value for surveillance, perhaps enabling broader air strikes that would go beyond Bin Ladin to attack al Qaeda’s training infrastructure."
http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/04_07_18_corner-archive.asp#036402
Richard Clarke has gone after Paul Wolfowitz very aggressively as Mr. Iraq who had no interest in bin Laden. But check out page 214, describing a pre-9/11 debate over the Predator. Wolfowitz wanted a robust military option:
"The Defense Department favored strong action. Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz questioned the United States’ ability to deliver Bin Ladin and bring him to justice. He favored going after Bin Ladin as part of a larger air strike, similar to what had been done in the 1986 U.S. strike against Libya. General Myers emphasized the Predator’s value for surveillance, perhaps enabling broader air strikes that would go beyond Bin Ladin to attack al Qaeda’s training infrastructure."
http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/04_07_18_corner-archive.asp#036402
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One more item that's not from the report, but which clears up the question of whether the passengers on flight 93 prevented further catastrophy on 9-11 and where the plane was headed:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/22/politics/22CND-FLIG.html?hp
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Clinton did not leave a
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Sandy Burger is a liar:
http://musil.blogspot.com/2002_09_15_musil_archive.html#81883537
"It turns out that TIME's fool Bill Clinton's former national security advisor, Sandy Berger, who just back in August was busy telling TIME that the Clinton administration had prepared a major, magic strike against al Qaeda, which the Bush Administration delayed!"
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It was not luck that foiled the Millenium Plot Bombing:
http://www.leadandgold.blogspot.com/2004_07_01_leadandgold_archive.html#109042805761868055
Diana Dean 's senate testimony
http://judiciary.senate.gov/oldsite/21020dd.htm
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One more not from the report. On Sudan:
Sen. Shelby: Sudanese Were Willing to 'Assassinate' Bin Laden
A former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday that he has personally confirmed that the government of Sudan offered to arrest Osama bin Laden in 1996 and turn him over to the Clinton administration - revealing for the first time that the Sudanese were also willing to "assassinate" the notorious terror mastermind if necessary.
"I'm privy to some information on this," Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., told MSNBC's Chris Matthews.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/7/23/114602.shtml
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Clinton administration ignored security recommendations:
Ashcroft: Berger 9/11 Docs Reveal Clinton Security Lapse
A sensitive after-action report on the foiled Millennium bomb plot, portions of which allegedly were pilfered by former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, sounded the alarm that al-Qaida operatives had entered the U.S. and were preparing to strike.
In testimony before the 9/11 Commission in April, Attorney General John Ashcroft detailed the highly classified March 2000 document, saying it contained a set of sweeping recommendations on how to combat the al-Qaida threat that were completely ignored by the Clinton White House.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/7/19/221714.shtml
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The intelligence community was responsible for portraying the case for WMD to the president and to Congress:
Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday that President Bush was correct to believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction before the U.S. attacked in March 2003.
"The intelligence picture that was presented to the Congress, presented to me, presented to the president by the intelligence community led the president to the conclusion - the correct conclusion - that you had to assume that these weapons were there," Powell told national radio host Sean Hannity.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/7/21/231135.shtml
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We are safer now:
"Because of offensive actions against al Qaeda since 9/11, and defensive actions to improve homeland security, we believe we are safer today. But we are not safe."
--From the executive summary
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