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To: xcr600 who wrote (8028)	4/29/2002 10:52:28 PM
From: Catfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 48463

xcr600, You give the President credit for having more power than that given to him by the constitution. However, price fixing is against the law, and if this article is indeed correct, then there should be a congressional investigation. Btw, here is something for you. This is the first of three parts: How the Left Caused the 9-11 Attacks Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com Tuesday, April 23, 2002 Editor's note: This is the first part of a series. WASHINGTON – Blame the security breakdowns that led to Sept. 11 on the U.S. left, David Horowitz says in a powerful fact-filled pamphlet titled "How the Left Undermined America’s Security.” Horowitz knows the left like the back of his hand. He was a "Red diaper baby” raised in a communist home. The 1960s "destructive generation” (his term) caused his ideological flip-flop, especially when it became clear to him that murder was not out of the question in achieving left-wing goals in the U.S. He is now a dedicated pro-American conservative. His new booklet does contain a lot of chapter and verse about the trivialization and near obliteration of security during the Clinton era. However, it is not a "Clinton-bashing” polemic. Horowtiz says the blame belongs on the shoulders of the entire left-wing establishment. That means the politicians, the media, academia and all other powerful outlets controlled by the leftist establishment. So let’s start with warnings ignored and opportunities missed. For nearly a decade before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Clinton administration knew Americans were increasingly vulnerable to attacks involving biological, chemical or nuclear weapons. And it did nothing. Clinton Ignored Own Defense Secretary's Warning Clinton’s own secretary of defense, William Cohen, in a July 1999 op-ed piece in the Washington Post, predicted a terrorist attack on America’s mainland. Not only did the then-president do nothing, but the mainstream media "looked the other way,” alleges Horowitz. Liberal journalist Joe Klein reported on a close monitoring of the media. None of the major television networks or the elite press printed or uttered a word of it. The reaction among those who kept track of the way the media ignored an obvious blockbuster story was pure astonishment. The National Commission on Terrorism in 2000 "issued a report with the eerily foreboding image of the Twin Towers on its cover.” A bipartisan effort to attach the report’s findings to congressional intelligence legislation was stymied by left-wing Sen. Patrick "Leaky" Leahy, D-Vt. The senator said he feared a campaign against terrorism would threaten "civil liberties.” Watching Terrorists Isn't P.C. Vice President Al Gore’s commission to improve airline security degenerated into a focus on "racial profiling.” This, of course, diluted security measures in the face of terrorist threats from the Middle East and Asia. Seventeen of 19 Sept. 11 terrorists were fundamentalist extremists from the Middle East. In 1993, the FBI identified three "charities” connected to the terrorist organization Hamas. Clinton ignored pleas that he create a "President’s List” of extremist and terrorist groups. He feared the political fallout of "profiling” Islamic charities. By Clinton’s own account, Monica Lewinsky met him privately in the Oval Office a dozen times, but the head of the CIA could not get a single private meeting with the president after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. In 1996, while his own State Department was describing Osama bin Laden as "the greatest financier of terrorist projects around the world,” Clinton ignored an offer from the president of Sudan to arrest and extradite bin Laden and supply detailed intelligence data about global networks involving Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and Hamas. Membership in these networks included two hijackers who piloted jetliners into the World Trade Center. Those are highlights. Clinton, writes Horowitz, did focus enough attention on intelligence services "to hamstring the intelligence services in the name of civil liberties, shrink the U.S. military, eliminate its ability to fight two wars at once, pursue massive experiments in the military where 'consciousness raising' and gender and diversity reform overshadowed the prime purpose of the military: provide the best defense of the nation." newsmax.com

To: xcr600 who wrote (8028)	4/29/2002 10:54:17 PM
From: Catfish	Respond to of 48463

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.” newsmax.com

To: xcr600 who wrote (8028)	4/29/2002 10:56:08 PM
From: Catfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 48463

How the Left Undermined U.S. Intelligence Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com Friday, April 26, 2002 Editor's note: See part one of the series, How the Left Caused the 9-11 Attacks, and part two, Left Eliminated Security Protections for Americans. WASHINGTON – The breakdown of America’s national security and intelligence support services has been going on for decades. David Horowitz dates it from the post-Watergate hearings by a Senate committee headed by the late Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho. It was about that time, by the way, that Congress scrapped its own committees that investigated internal subversion. If a congressional committee today were to probe 21st century-style subversion, the forces of "political correctness” would create an uproar that would make the venom heaped upon the old House Committee on Un-American Activities look like a walk in the park. As NewsMax.com has documented, there are terrorists living among us on American soil. We have reported on how Steve Emerson’s book on that very subject, "American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us," has been blacklisted in some sectors of the media. And though Attorney General John Ashcroft is trying to play catch-up in going after subversives, inadequate intelligence has often made this effort akin to taking a shot in the dark. 'Penance' to Frank Church David Horowitz, in his booklet "How the Left Undermined America’s Security,” documents how the "anti-war Democrats and other partisans of the American left” and the Church committee's "reforms" reduced morale among intelligence officers. A former CIA station chief is quoted in the Horowitz study as saying, "We all had to demonstrate our penance.” One result was that "high-risk assignments in target countries resulted in no greater advancement up the bureaucratic ladder than sitting at a computer in Langley.” Also, as reported by NewsMax, Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., then a House member, led a successful crusade during the Clinton years to avoid using as undercover informants anyone who had "human rights problems.” That ignored the fact that effective spies are not usually found among choirboys. Campus Thought Police Perhaps the most frontal assault on U.S. security in recent years has been nurtured at American universities. It was in the late 1970s that the '60s radicals began to enter the professorate, as Horowitz notes. Edward Said, a member of Yasser Arafat’s PLO, became a powerful academic in America. In the Nov. 21, 1993 New York Times Sunday Magazine, he wrote an article titled "The Phony Islamic Threat.” The threat from Islamic radicals, the politically correct line argued, "was that perceptions of a terrorist threat from Islamic radicals were expressions of ‘Eurocentric’ or racist attitudes by their western oppressors." Thus, argues Horowitz, "Said ... discredited all previous scholarship in the field, paving the way for its replacement by Marxist radicals like himself.” Campus encouragement of "multiculturalism” involved "widespread recruitment of political leftists from Islamic theocracies of the Middle East,” which soon "consolidated the conversion of Middle Eastern Studies into anti-Americanism,” according to Stanley Kurtz, writing of "The Scandal of Middle East Studies” (Weekly Standard, 11-19-01). "In a statement issued ten days after the World Trade Center Attack,” notes the Horowitz booklet, "the Middle East Studies Association – the professional organization representing the field – refused to describe the perpetrators of the attack as ‘terrorists,’ and pre-emptively opposed any U.S. military response.” Banned Campus hostility to the profession of intelligence work is also reflected in recruiting policies. "The main reason the CIA no longer recruits agents from top-ranked schools is because it can’t,” writes Horowitz. Major campuses have barred the recruiters. "To make their case,” he says, "academic leftists drill the nation’s elite youth” in a litany of lies and half-truths. Such as claims that the CIA: rigged the Italian and French elections in 1948 against communist parties (while failing to mention that the communist parties aimed to incorporate Western Europe into Stalin’s satellite system). aided in overthrowing Mossadegh in Iran (not mentioning that he was a Soviet asset who would have delivered Iran into Stalin’s orbit). helped to overthrow the Arbenz regime in Guatemala (ignoring his role as a communist fellow-traveler who spent his exile in Fidel Castro’s police state). played a major role in the "Bay of Pigs” (the failed effort to rid this hemisphere of Castro’s communist dictatorship 90 miles from American shores). participated in the "Phoenix Program” in Vietnam (which attempted to prevent a communist front from establishing a communist dictatorship in Saigon). newsmax.com