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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (42051)	9/18/2001 12:19:11 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 65232

Fed adds $36.25 bln in temporary bank reserves - Reuters Securities - Tuesday, Sep 18, 2001 Fed says to add temporary bank reserves - Reuters Securities - 10:43 am Regards, Scott BTW...I like this approach... <<best revenge is for terrorists to disappear no dead body to carry in public display abduct in middle of night never to be seen again>>

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (42051)	9/18/2001 12:23:49 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 65232

LOTS of background info. available by using the following links... Message 16372550 Regards, Scott

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (42051)	9/18/2001 1:41:50 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

RE: AIRLINE SAFETY/GROUND SAFETY... Message 16372821

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (42051)	9/18/2001 2:02:45 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

Torricelli effectively blinded the CIA Sen. Torricelli Played Key Role in Closing Down CIA Ops Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2001 WASHINGTON - Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., led congressional efforts in the mid-1990s that handcuffed the CIA's abilities to recruit spies - a key policy that helped allow the attacks of Sept. 11 to take place with no intelligence warnings. Current and former CIA operatives say that Clinton administration policies, which forbade the CIA from recruiting known terrorists and other criminals, left the U.S. government bereft of all intelligence about such terrorist groups. In 1995, then-Rep. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., made secrets public at the behest of left-wing activist Bianca Jagger, his girlfriend at the time, according to Newark Star-Ledger columnist Paul Mulshine in the January/February issue of Heterodoxy. The secrets suggested that the CIA had on its payroll one or more unsavory characters who had been involved in murder. Torricelli gave away secrets he obtained through his membership on the House Intelligence Committee. This so outraged then-Speaker Newt Gingrich that he tried to have the New Jersey Democrat kicked off the panel. Later, Torricelli was criticized in a committee report for having compromised American intelligence-gathering abilities around the world, adding that numerous CIA sources had decided to stop giving information for fear they would be outed by a congressman. At the time, Torricelli's activities and leaks against the CIA garnered a large amount of press attention. Mulshine’s article showed how Torricelli’s action in giving away the name of a CIA source in Guatemala was based not on fact, but on a conspiracy theory of "the loony left,” as Heterodoxy later characterized it. The lawmaker was accused of having leaped to a number of inaccurate conclusions about the CIA’s role in the deaths of an American hotel owner named Michael DeVine and a Guatemalan guerilla named Efrain Bamaca Velazquez. In its 1997 report, the House Intelligence Committee had this to say about the antics of Torricelli, by then a senator: "None of the allegations raised by Rep. Torricelli in the March 22, 1995 letter to the president [Clinton] or subsequent public statements concerning the involvement of the CIA in the DeVine and Bamaca deaths in Guatemala have proved true.” Still, Torricelli efforts paid off with the Clinton administration, which moved to ban the use of spies or the recruitment of spies that had any involvement with criminals or terrorists. Torricelli effectively blinded the CIA. It was about the time of this well-publicized incident that the CIA’s slide into a deteriorated human intelligence capability accelerated. As a former CIA spy in the Mideast told NewsMax CEO Christopher Ruddy, Bill Clinton simply changed the rules of how spies are recruited. A former CIA official later confirmed this to Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly. And it was done in such a way as to make it impossible to recruit effective human spies. The agency, then under Director John Deutch and his top assistant Nora Slatkin, implemented a "human rights scrub” policy. Or as Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Bob Graham has noted since Tuesday’s attacks, effective human spies "are not found in monasteries.” Torricelli did not respond to repeated efforts by NewsMax.com to get his comment for this article. But he turned up Monday night on Fox News Channel’s "The O’Reilly Factor” to defend himself. O’Reilly accused him of "tying the CIA’s hands,” although he did not let Clinton or then-CIA Director John Deutch, off the hook. Torricelli said the CIA could hire anyone it wanted to spy for the U.S. - as long as the station chiefs get permission from Washington. That set O’Reilly off. The popular TV host said the CIA agents had no confidence in Deutch - "They hated him” - and they didn’t want to bother that "extra layer of bureaucracy” in Washington, "where they’re out to lunch half the day anyway.” "You don’t know that, and I don’t know that,” Torricelli shot back. "But the point is, on the principle, the agency’s hands are not tied. They can hire anybody they want. They’ve got to get permission.” "Here’s the deal,” retorted O’Reilly. "The terrorists can blow up the World Trade Center. They don’t have to get anybody’s permission, all right? They can just do it. But if we want to hire somebody as a quick tip that that may be coming down, you can’t do that without permission from some pinhead in Washington.” "I’m not sure the terrorists should set the standard we want to follow,” the New Jersey Democrat countered. "We’re just defending ourselves!” exclaimed the television journalist. Torricelli ended up blaming the CIA, saying they "had the authority to do it under law. They just didn’t do it.” O’Reilly said the station chiefs and field agents believed that Deutch "didn’t know his butt from his elbow.” He added that Torricelli had caused another layer of bureaucracy to be created "within an agency that needs to be nimble and brutal.” O’Reilly did not bring up Bianca Jagger. Like Ruddy, O’Reilly has been talking to former CIA operatives whose opinion of Deutch is universally low. Torricelli has been in the news recently because of a federal investigation into bribery allegations against him. The Nicaraguan-born Jagger, ex-wife of Rolling Stones rock star Mick Jagger, has appeared on Fox News Channel and other media outlets to promote environmental and other leftist causes and rail against America's use of the death penalty. She has also been romantically linked to Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn.

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (42051)	9/18/2001 6:25:14 PM
From: No Mo Mo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

"best revenge is to use our technology" Well said. I believe this to be true on a broad, cultural scale as well. A friend wrote this last week. Very constructive as I see it. Dear Friends, While our government thrashes about looking for an appropriate diplomatic and military response to the WTC tragedy, let’s take some steps of our own. This is not a conflict that calls for a measured, careful response; this is a conflict that calls for an overwhelming, careful response, and a continued commitment. The so-called “enemy” of Islamic fundamentalism has announced their intentions to perpetrate a war of cultural annihilation. Either they remove us, or we will remove them. Thus they have defined the goals of the conflict. But the enemy is just as vulnerable to these objectives as we are. More so, in fact. The enemy builds his force on ignorance, on the Big Lie. The enemy's greatest fear is that the prosperity of the West will seduce the generations after this one. That the memories of old blood feuds will fade when presented with McDonald's and computers, and cheap cell phones. Every call they make to recruit is against the decadence of the West destroying their way of life. Should we punish the enemy with bombs and bullets? It is my opinion that we must salt the soil in which the twisted trees of intolerance and fanaticism take root. We must change the hearts and minds of the young. We shall salt them with small computers. With internet access. With a telephone in every village. With puerile novels and encyclopedias translated into Arabic. With teachers who speak their language, and who teach them to use these tools to answer questions for themselves. Yes, some of those teachers may be killed. They are soldiers in this war as much as anyone who wears a beret, or carries a gun (Thomas Payne declared that “Sometimes the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots.”) No tyranny can long survive with an informed and educated populace. The organizations they declaim as the mouthpieces of the US should be USED as the mouthpieces of the west. We will tell their children that there is a life beyond subsistence farming and blood feuds. We will tell their wives and daughters that there is a life where they are valued as individuals and people in their own right, not as chattel. We will give them the tools of bilateral communication, rather than unilateral indoctrination. We will give them the Internet. We will declare a great work, of making certain that every corner of this globe has access to fast Internet access. Not just the US. Not just Europe. The world. They will see pornography sites. They will also see sites discussing engineering, and simple improvements to agriculture. The curiosity of children will be piqued, and their questions answered. With each question asked, and each answer given, we slowly wean them away from the culture of intolerance. They'll be able to ask questions without censure or censoring, and get answers they might not otherwise have. I would sooner carpet bomb with Game Boys and Pokemon, and an Arabic translation of Monopoly, than Fuel-Air-Explosives and cruise missiles. The adults may be beyond our reach. The young MUST be reached so that 20 years from now, the thought of piloting a captured airliner into an office building full if innocent bystanders meets with revulsion and horror. I fear, in the haste for vengeance, that the nature of this conflict will be forgotten. Make no bones about it -- this is a culture war. It can only end with a declaration on the order of Cartago Delendo Est. We cannot win this war with bombs or bullets, although we can accelerate its prosecution by those means. We can only win this war through a generational conflict; we must win the war in the hearts and minds of the children now growing up in the Middle East. Winning that longer war will be costlier and perhaps less gratifying than CNN replays of gun-camera footage and laser-guided bombs hitting their intended targets. It can, however, be a profitable war. If you are an author, recording artist or someone who creates media, contact your publisher about translating your works into Arabic. Insist on meaningful distribution of these works in the Middle East. There are many secular states in the region where commerce can be pursued; and where “pass-along readership” will cross borders into Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Libya. Osama Bin-Ladin has declared this a cultural war. Let's show him what a cultural war TRULY looks like. Let's send in Shakespeare. And Heinlein. And Harlequin Romances, Pokemon and The Simpsons. Now is the time for Oprah to wield the saber of freedom! Mariah-u akbar (”Mariah is great”)?