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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (3733)	2/24/2004 1:08:05 AM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

The evil doers of the world reside in the RNC! Why is that exactly?

To: American Spirit who wrote (3733)	2/24/2004 9:36:33 AM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Clinton Admin. Ignored Specific Warning on 9/11 Hijacker For nearly two years, Clinton administration intelligence officials knew the identity of the al Qaeda hijacker whose plane would do the most damage in the Sept. 11 attacks, but did nothing with the information. As early as March 1999, German intelligence was privately warning the Clinton CIA to keep track of Marwan al Shehhi, who would hijack United Flight 175 eighteen months later and steer it into Tower Two of the World Trade Center. The surprise collapse of Tower Two - the first of the two towers to go down just 60 minutes after being hit - killed more Americans by far that day than any of the other attacks. German intelligence officials supplied their counterparts in the Clinton administration with al Shehhi's first name and telephone number, but according to the New York Times, they got no response. "After Germans passed the information onto the CIA, they did not hear from the Americans about the matter until after Sept. 11," the Times said. "After receiving the tip, the CIA decided that 'Marwan' was probably an associate of Osama bin Laden, but never tracked him down." "Close surveillance of Mr. Shehhi in 1999 might have led investigators to other plot leaders, including Mohammed Atta, who was Mr. Shehhi's roommate," the paper said. "The earlier information about Mr. Shehhi could have taken investigators to the core of the al Qaeda cell at a time when the [9/11] plot was probably in its formative stages." The decision not to pursue the critical tip on a suspected terrorist with known links to bin Laden came despite President Clinton's repeated pledges after attacks on the USS Cole and U.S. embassies in East Africa to hunt bin Laden and his associates down. The news about yet another Clinton administration blunder in the war on terrorism is seen as bad news for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, who has been attempting to burnish her national security credentials in preparation for an eventual presidential run. On May 16, 2002, Sen. Clinton suggested that President Bush was to blame for ignoring a far less specific August 2001 CIA warning suggesting that al Qaeda was preparing to hijack U.S. airliners. Referring to a headline in the New York Post that day, Mrs. Clinton told the Senate, "I am simply here today on the floor of this hallowed chamber to seek answers to the questions being asked by my constituents, questions raised by one of our newspapers in New York with the headline 'Bush Knew.'" "The president knew what? My constituents would like to know the answer to that and many other questions . . . He may not be in a position at this time to respond to all of those concerns, but he is in a position to answer some of them, including the question of why we know today, May 16, about the warning he received. Why did we not know this on April 16 or March 16 or February or Jan. 16 or Aug. 16 of last year?"