Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (8806)	12/27/2001 7:25:55 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

THE weekly strategy meetings at the White House throughout 1995 and 1996 featured an escalating drumbeat of advice to President Clinton to take decisive steps to crack down on terrorism. The polls gave these ideas a green light. But Clinton hesitated and failed to act, always finding a reason why some other concern was more important. Repeatedly, the president was urged to use the motor-vehicle laws to identify illegal aliens and possible terrorists to finger them for deportation. At a White House meeting in March, 1995, at two sessions in May, 1995, and again in March of 1996, detailed proposals were laid before the president to require linkage of state motor vehicle records with INS and FBI databases so that routine traffic enforcement could help identify potential enemies within. The proposal called for a federal law which would require that drivers' licenses expire when visas do for foreign citizens and that no permits be issued to illegal aliens. Traffic cops would be able to check to see if those they pulled over on the highway were in the country illegally. If they were, they would be arrested and sent to the INS for deportation. Had the president adopted this common-sense approach, Mohammed Atta would have been thrown out of the country - and barred from re-entry - after he was found driving without a valid license by Florida police, three months before Sept. 11. The proposal had strong public support. In a poll taken by the president's political team on March 20, 1996, voters backed the idea by an overwhelming 71-21. The president was interested in the idea and forwarded it to Deputy White House Chief of Staff Harold Ickes to be vetted with the INS and the Justice Department. In a memorandum, Ickes later reported that it met with disapproval from both agencies. More article @... nypost.com