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Gregg,
I must respectfully disagree. While I, too, think Bill Clinton showed incredibly bad judgement and a lack of character by having a relationship with Ms. Lewinsky, it is silly to suggest that he approved, orchestrated, and scheduled these attacks solely to distract us from his other problems. Unless Secretary of State Albright, Secretary of Defense Cohen, etc., are all fibbing to cover Bill's butt, it was done when it was done because they all believed the Afghanistan camp was full of people they believed would serve the world better from oblivion.
(This is not to say that he did not orchestrate the announcement to best political effect. A live Presidential speech at 5:30pm EST was guaranteed to be on everyone's news broadcast.)
One could argue that the tremendous resources given the World Trade Center bombing have begun to pay off with better intelligence. According to this morning's news, the same intelligence reports that targeted these guys helped prevent a third embassy bombing.
To bring this back on topic just a bit, if the bad guys had been using one of Qualcomm's CDMA phones, there might not have been any useful telephone intercepts. To my knowledge, there have not been any reports of anyone breaking the CDMA encoding. |
