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

To: MSI who wrote (258770)	5/27/2002 12:31:06 AM
From: calgal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Seven in Ten Confident U.S. Can Thwart Attacks Sat May 25, 2:34 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than seven out of ten Americans have at least some confidence the FBI (news - web sites) and CIA (news - web sites) can prevent attacks on the United States, according to a poll released on Saturday by Time magazine. The Time/CNN poll, which will appear in Time's May 27 issue, found a majority -- 55 percent -- of the 1007 adults polled May 22-23 have "just some" confidence in the ability of each agency to prevent terror strikes on U.S. soil. About one in six had a great deal of confidence in the agencies' ability to ward off attacks -- 17 percent expressed that level of confidence in the FBI and 16 percent in the CIA. The poll was conducted following a series of government warnings over possible fresh strikes and after some lawmakers questioned if the government had missed clues that could have unraveled the Sept. 11 plot. Twenty-seven percent said they had little or no confidence in the ability of either the FBI or CIA to prevent attacks like those which killed about 3,000 people, mostly at the World Trade Center and Pentagon (news - web sites). As to who bore responsibility for any lack of government action to prevent the attacks, 59 percent said the CIA was either "very" or "somewhat" responsible. Fifty-eight percent assigned that high level of responsibility to the FBI and some 54 percent assigned that level of responsibility to President Bush (news - web sites)'s top advisers. Bush, who blames the attack on the al Qaeda guerrilla network, was deemed either very or somewhat responsible by 46 percent of those responding to the poll. This month, some lawmakers have questioned if the government could have helped prevent the hijacked plane attacks by piecing together clues, including an FBI agent's suspicion extremists were training at U.S. flight schools. Criticism from within the FBI has also emerged over the possible mishandling of a captured suspect in the Sept. 11 plot. Seventy-three percent of those polled said they had paid at least some attention to a flurry of warnings from Bush administration officials that additional attacks could occur at any time, with 36 percent saying they had paid a great deal of attention to those warnings. Time assigned a 3.1 percent margin or error to the poll. story.news.yahoo.com.

To: MSI who wrote (258770)	5/27/2002 12:52:36 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Re: I heard today two talking heads say an investigation won't happen, if the president doesn't request it. Who are these paid off propagandists? And who do they think they're kidding? The investigation season is just starting to warm up. By October, the Bush complicity in terrorizing his subjects while rewarding his heeler, Kenny Boy should just about be joined into one of the most extraordinary episodes of national exposure and revulsion that the world has ever seen. The Bush team are seemingly totally inept at the new level of damage control they're being forced to exert. They did remarkably well at controlling the fallout from the Enron debacle. I doubt that they are going to hold back the floodgates of revulsion for much longer. The American people, always slow to disbelieve in their leaders, are beginning to understand they're being swindled and lied to by the Bush Leaguers. I'm very gratified that ethical and moral Republicans (unlike McConnell, Delay, Armey, Gramm and other morally reprehensible and utterly corrupt slime like them) are beginning to stand up and say that, in fact, the American people do have a right to the truth, and to an understanding of how they are being sold out by Bush for a buck.