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To: LindyBill who wrote (4850)	8/13/2003 12:31:49 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793656

Nonsense. The Bush administration clearly impeded investigations from proceeding prior to 9/11. Even when the handover from the prior administration warned that the top priority was bin Laden, various investigations were stopped down the line. orthodoxies and policies that have precluded the according of special scrutiny to radical Islamists in mosques and religious schools across America. Most operated with impunity for decades under the exemptions provided by the false gods of "diversity" and "multiculturalism." Had Mr. Atta and his fellow killers been arrested on probable cause, their Islamic haunts raided, and assorted charities and fundraisers shut down on September 10, 2001, cries of racism, profiling, and McCarthyism would have drowned out the purportedly farfetched excuses that such preemptory FBI raids had in fact saved thousands in Manhattan. The facts were known cooperativeresearch.org Some examples of Bush incompetence or deliberation in protecting terrorists. "The FBI was unable to investigate the two brothers due to pressure from above. (A) Joe Trento explained, “The FBI wanted to investigate these guys. This is not something that they didn't want to do - they wanted to, they weren't permitted to. . . . . . . Now, do I know that WAMY has done anything that's illegal? No, I don't know that. Do I know that as far back as 1996 the FBI was very concerned about this organisation? I do.” [BBC, 11/6/01: transcripts, video]" cooperativeresearch.org "iv The Bush administration ‘shutdown’ the proposed implementations of these reforms. (A) In May, Bush announced his plan to counter the threat of terrorism. His plan totally ignored the two and a half years of hard work and millions of dollars that the commission had put into developing the proposed reforms. Instead of the commission’s recommendation that an office be created charged with the specific task of protecting the American mainland from terrorist attacks, Bush argued that FEMA, headed by Bush’s former campaign manager, Joe Allbaugh, would be more than adequate for the job. To placate the worried congresspersons he promised that Cheney and Allbaugh would look into their concerns and provide Bush with a plan by October 1. [Salon, 9/12/01]" cooperativeresearch.org “In the spring of 2001, the attorney general had an extraordinary confrontation with the then FBI Director Louis Freeh at an annual meeting of special agents in charge in Quantico, Va. The two talked before appearing, and Ashcroft laid out his priorities for Freeh, another Clinton holdover (though no friend of the ex-president’s), ‘basically violent crime and drugs,’ recalls one participant. Freeh replied bluntly that those were not his priorities, and began to talk about terror and counter-terrorism. ‘Ashcroft didn’t want to hear about it,’ says a former senior law-enforcement official.” The article noted that this reorientation was going on “even as Ashcroft began, quietly, to take a privately chartered jet for his own security reasons.” [Newsweek, 5/27/02]