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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E. T. who wrote (200665)	11/7/2001 9:30:36 AM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

LOL! The papers are requested so that an investigation into Clinton's wrongdoings may continue! And this rag says Clinton is angered by Bush's actions? LOLOL!

To: E. T. who wrote (200665)	11/7/2001 10:11:32 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

If there is information in these papers about current people in Government, there could be connections made that put others at risk. I don't see the big deal. I'm pleased to hear that the former rapist mr. bill is upset. I would expect litter more. But the hate fumers wish to dig into the past for what to defame and disparage others. Well if rape is a so what, I do wonder at there motives. What a disgusting bunch of vacant liberal minded lefty loon scum. E.T. are you a member of that club???? tom watson tosiwmee

To: E. T. who wrote (200665)	11/7/2001 10:13:06 AM
From: Judgement Proof.com	Respond to of 769670

Bush's Bin Laden link thwarted FBI probe news.indiatimes.com LONDON: FBI agents in the United States probing relatives of Saudi-born terror suspect Osama Bin Laden before September 11 were told to back off soon after George W Bush became president, the BBC has reported. The BBC's Newsnight current affairs programme on Tuesday said that Bush at one point had a number of connections with Saudi Arabia's prominent Bin Laden family. It added there was a suspicion that the US strategic interest in Saudi Arabia, which has the world's biggest oil reserve, blunted its inquiries into individuals with suspected terrorist connections -- so long as the US was safe. Newsnight reported it had seen secret documents from an FBI probe into the September 11 terror attacks that showed that at least two other US-based members of the Bin Laden family are suspected to have links with a possible terrorist organisation. The programme said it had obtained evidence that the FBI was on the trail of Bin Laden family members living in United States before, as well as after, the terrorist attacks. Newsnight said Bush made his first million 20 years ago with an oil company partly funded by the chief US representative of Salem Bin Laden, Osama's brother. Bush also received fees as director of a subsidiary of Carlyle Corporation, a little-known private company which in just a few years since its founding has become one of America's biggest defence contractors, and his father, George Bush Sr, is also a paid advisor, the programme said. The connection became embarrassing when it was revealed that the Bin Ladens held a stake in Carlyle, sold just after September 11, it added. ( AFP )

To: E. T. who wrote (200665)	11/7/2001 10:14:17 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I assume a later President could issue an executive order canceling the Bush order. It really is a bit bizzare because it's going to cause much greater attention payed to Reagan and Bush documents when they are released. Probably something very specific from 12 years ago and he just wants to delay a few years, most internet sites don't have archives that old since Bush hadn't learned how to use the supermarket checkout yet, but a trip to the library may shed some light on it. TP

To: E. T. who wrote (200665)	11/7/2001 10:21:12 AM
From: Judgement Proof.com	Respond to of 769670

FBI claims Bin Laden inquiry was frustrated Officials told to 'back off' on Saudis before September 11 guardian.co.uk Greg Palast and David Pallister Wednesday November 7, 2001 The Guardian FBI and military intelligence officials in Washington say they were prevented for political reasons from carrying out full investigations into members of the Bin Laden family in the US before the terrorist attacks of September 11. US intelligence agencies have come under criticism for their wholesale failure to predict the catastrophe at the World Trade Centre. But some are complaining that their hands were tied. FBI documents shown on BBC Newsnight last night and obtained by the Guardian show that they had earlier sought to investigate two of Osama bin Laden's relatives in Washington and a Muslim organisation, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), with which they were linked. The FBI file, marked Secret and coded 199, which means a case involving national security, records that Abdullah bin Laden, who lived in Washington, had originally had a file opened on him "because of his relationship with the World Assembly of Muslim Youth - a suspected terrorist organisation". WAMY members deny they have been involved with terrorist activities, and WAMY has not been placed on the latest list of terrorist organisations whose assets are being frozen. Abdullah, who lived with his brother Omar at the time in Falls Church, a town just outside Washington, was the US director of WAMY, whose offices were in a basement nearby. But the FBI files were closed in 1996 apparently before any conclusions could be reached on either the Bin Laden brothers or the organisation itself. High-placed intelligence sources in Washington told the Guardian this week: "There were always constraints on investigating the Saudis". They said the restrictions became worse after the Bush administration took over this year. The intelligence agencies had been told to "back off" from investigations involving other members of the Bin Laden family, the Saudi royals, and possible Saudi links to the acquisition of nuclear weapons by Pakistan. "There were particular investigations that were effectively killed." Only after the September 11 attacks was the stance of political and commercial closeness reversed towards the other members of the large Bin Laden clan, who have classed Osama bin Laden as their "black sheep". Yesterday, the head of the Saudi-based WAMY's London office, Nouredine Miladi, said the charity was totally against Bin Laden's violent methods. "We seek social change through education and cooperation, not force." He said Abdullah bin Laden had ceased to run WAMY's US operation a year ago. Neither Abdullah nor Omar bin Laden could be contacted in Saudi Arabia for comment. WAMY was founded in 1972 in a Saudi effort to prevent the "corrupting" ideas of the west ern world influencing young Muslims. With official backing it grew to embrace 450 youth and student organisations with 34 offices worldwide. Its aim was to encourage "concerned Muslims to take up the challenge by arming the youth with sound understanding of Islam, guarding them against destructive ideologies, and instilling in them level-headed wisdom". In Britain it has 20 associated organisations, many highly respectable. But as long as 10 years ago it was named as a discreet channel for public and private Saudi donations to hardline Islamic organisations. One of the recipients of its largesse has been the militant Students Islamic Movement of India, which has lent support to Pakistani-backed terrorists in Kashmir and seeks to set up an Islamic state in India. Since September 11 WAMY has been investigated in the US along with a number of other Muslim charities. There have been several grand jury investigations but no findings have been made against any of them. Current FBI interest in WAMY is shown in their agents' interrogation of a radiologist from San Antonio, Texas, Dr Al Badr al-Hazmi, who was arrested on September 12 and released without charge two weeks later. He had the same surname as two of the plane hijackers. He was also questioned about his contacts with Abdullah bin Laden at the US WAMY office. Mr Al-Hazmi said that he had made phone calls to Abdullah bin Laden in 1999 trying to obtain books and videotapes about Islamic teachings for the Islamic Centre of San Antonio.