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

To: Arthur Radley who wrote (297753)	9/18/2002 7:17:47 AM
From: Rick Slemmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Truth is finally coming out and remember Shrub and Ashcroft didn't want any money to improved [sic] our ability to fight terrorist threats....Maybe they were right that we didn't need more money...just someone smart enough to listen to what they were being told... Well, let's see. They're NOW being told that Iraq may have, or may soon have, nuclear capability. Do you want the Administration to act on that? Three years from now IF Iraq is holding the Middle East hostage, will you be saying "If Shrub wasn't so stupid we wouldn't have these troubles?" Careful: your double standard is showing.

To: Arthur Radley who wrote (297753)	9/18/2002 7:46:08 AM
From: sandeep	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

This is again some know-it-alls who are trying to assign blame on their political opponents. Just like people who are trying to assign blame to Clinton. Guys, what has happened has happened. I praise Bush for the courage he has shown and the steps he has taken. Could Clinton have done the same or even better? Maybe, maybe not. He doesn't have that chance. Bush is what we have. We need to help him do good - for our sake! One can always find blame and beat up on people. For example, the airport guys who searched these terrorists were blamed - and a whole bunch of very mediocre airport people got federalized and got MORE MONEY!

To: Arthur Radley who wrote (297753)	9/18/2002 4:29:12 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769667

JUDICIAL WATCH’S NEW BOOK, “FATAL NEGLECT,” DISPROVES FINDINGS OF CONGRESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE ON 9/11 Committee’s Work is a “Whitewash” – Incomplete, Rushed, and Plagued by Conflicts Over Scope and Staffing “Fatal Neglect”Details the Real Story of U.S. Government Failures judicialwatch.org ******************************* TexasDude, We're finally getting to the point where Bush's utter malfeasance is being exposed. There is an anger rising in the country about Bush and his co-conspirators betraying the people of the U.S. --Ray *********************************** TEXT OF JUDICIAL WATCH PRESS RELEASE FOLLOWS: (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, stated today that the Congressional Joint Intelligence Committee will reportedly release a 30-page report summarizing the findings of their investigation of the law enforcement and intelligence community’s handling of the terrorist threat prior to September 11th. The report is said to detail information available to U.S. government analysts concerning al Qaeda threats to domestic U.S. targets, and the use of “airplanes as weapons.” Despite this advance intelligence warning, the Committee concluded that the government could not have prevented the attacks of September 11th. The Committee’s conclusion is false, and clearly based on incomplete, inaccurate information. The Joint Intelligence Committee’s investigation was seriously flawed from the very beginning, based on a series of staffing controversies that centered on the appointment of former CIA Inspector General Britt Snider as the Committee Staff Director. Many analysts and intelligence community insiders felt Snider’s appointment indicated a “whitewash” by the Committee. Snider’s appointment was further complicated by his reported hiring of a former CIA officer who was the subject of a counterintelligence investigation for failing a polygraph examination. Snider resigned from the Committee and was replaced by former Defense Department Inspector General Eleanor Hill. Additionally, the staff director charged with examining the role of the FBI, Thomas A. Kelley, was reportedly the subject of an internal FBI memorandum stating that Kelley, “continued to thwart and obstruct,” the investigation of the 1993 Waco debacle by former Senator John C. Danforth. The Committee is hamstrung by a deadline of October 2002, to wrap-up its investigation. They have met only 10 times in closed session, and are reportedly the subject of a continuing FBI investigation of alleged security leaks relating to the National Security Agency’s monitoring of al Qaeda communications. Judicial Watch’s new book, Fatal Neglect: The U.S. Government’s Continuing Failure to Protect American Citizens from Terrorists, provides an insightful and detailed account of the failures of U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies and proposes a solution for getting to the bottom of, and fixing, the government’s errors.