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To: jlallen who wrote (249201)	4/19/2002 9:47:48 PM
From: rich4eagle	Respond to of 769670

Clinton, it was said played golf at Army Navy CC, this Wednesday which he has on numerous occasions, Mr. Bush has never set foot on the grounds as most can tell.

To: jlallen who wrote (249201)	4/25/2002 9:09:37 AM
From: RON BL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Left Eliminated Security Protections for Americans Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com Thursday, April 25, 2002 Editor's note: See part one of this series, How the Left Caused the 9-11 Attacks. WASHINGTON – Loose immigration policies played a major role in the terrorist attack on American soil. Ex-leftist David Horowitz reminds us that the 100 or so Arabic operatives who participated in plotting the Sept. 11 attacks entered the United States "with and without passports seemingly at will.” Moreover, they received training in airliners in American facilities "despite clear indications that some of them might be part of a terrorist campaign.” While all this was going on, leftist Democrats relentlessly pushed for greater relaxation of immigration policies and accused anyone who scrutinized foreign nationals of xenophobia and "racial profiling." Beyond demagoguery over the immigrant issue, what happened that would leave our intelligence apparatus in such a mess? Left-wing reporter Joe Klein investigated that question and came to the conclusion that "there seems to be near unanimous agreement among experts: in the ten years since the collapse of the Soviet Union almost every aspect of American national security – from military operations to intelligence gathering, from border control to political leadership – has been marked by … institutional lassitude and bureaucratic arrogance.” The 10-year period Klein describes would include all eight years of the Clinton presidency and seven years since the first al-Qaeda attack on the World Trade Center. 'Brick by Brick' But Clinton only epitomized the problem. That the Democrats would nominate someone with his flip attitude toward security was only a logical result of the years of their own concerted efforts to break down America’s intelligence capability "brick by brick” (to quote the words one of them actually used). This effort was not merely the result of a few backbenchers on Capitol Hill. It included the top Democrat congressional leadership. Even Clinton’s intelligence budget was not low enough to satisfy Rep. Bernie Sanders, the avowed socialist from Vermont who caucuses with the Democrats. Horowitz, in his booklet "How the Left Undermined America’s Security,” reveals that Sanders introduced amendments year after year emasculating the intelligence structure. Sanders refused even to examine the very budget he proposed to cut. "My job is not to go through the intelligence budget. I have not even looked at it.” He wanted to slash the budget even beyond the cuts already approved by the Democrat-led House Intelligence Committee. "Irresponsible? Incomprehensible?” asks Horowitz. "Not to between a third and more than half the Democrats in the House [including the leadership] who voted in favor of the Sanders amendment.” Berkeley Rep. Ron Dellums, D-Calif., supported the Sanders amendment and similar measures while he, Dellums, was chairman of the Armed Services Committee. The Man Who Would Be President House Democrat Leader Dick Gephardt of Missouri, who still harbors ambitions for the White House, voted for five out of seven intelligence-cutting amendments for which he was recorded. The second-ranking Democrat leader, Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich., "voted for every single one” of 10 such cuts in his congressional career, reports Horowitz. Three lawmakers who chaired or were ranking members of Armed Service Subcommittees – Pat Schroeder, D-Colo., Neil Abercrombe, D-Hawaii, and Marty Meehan, D-Mass. – voted consistently to hack away at intelligence funding, as did Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., top Democrat on House Appropriations. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., a member of the Intelligence Committee (who "should have known better,” says Horowitz) voted for anti-intelligence amendments three times. She has been elected to succeed Bonior as Democrat whip. "In 1998,” says Horowitz, "Osama bin Laden and four radical Islamic groups issued a fatwa condemning every American man, woman and child, civilian and military included. Sanders responded by enlisting Oregon Democrat Peter DeFazio to author an amendment cutting the intelligence authorization again.” The anti-intelligence moves were accompanied by similar chopping away at the military. In the words of the late Rep. Floyd Spence, R-S.C., "We have done to our military and to our intelligence agencies what no foreign power has been able to do. We have decimated our defenses.” Next: The anti-intelligence lobby, the university left and the left’s congressional Fifth Column.