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

To: Ish who wrote (563612)	4/12/2004 5:33:38 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Any person whose vote is decided by messages that annoy them is an idiot identified. I simply reveal to all the truth about themselves and if that annoys some, I really don't worry about it. If your want to vote to put idiots like this back in power, then you are an idiot identified. Gorelick Ignored Terror Warnings, Ex-FBI Chief Says In her first year as deputy U.S. attorney general in the Clinton administration, Sept. 11 Commissioner Jamie Gorelick was warned that lax U.S. immigration policies made the U.S. a tempting target for terrorists, former FBI Director Louis Freeh revealed on Monday, suggesting that Gorelick did little to remedy the situation. "Protecting our homeland from attacks by foreign terrorists had long been the FBI's priority," said Freeh in a lengthy Wall Street Journal op-ed piece. "Back in September 1994, I recommended to Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick that the DoJ strengthen investigative powers against suspected 'undesirable aliens,' accelerating deportation appeal proceedings and limiting U.S. participation in a visa waiver pilot program under which 9.5 million foreigners entered the U.S. in 1994." Freeh said he also recommended "that we include provisions for the detention and removal of undesirable aliens, under a special, closed-court procedure." "I also criticized alien deportation appeal procedures which often took years to conclude. Finally, I recommended legislation to provide the FBI with roving wiretap authority to investigate terrorist activities in the U.S." But if Gorelick took Freeh's warnings seriously, she didn't make much headway with her superiors. By 1996, under the Clinton administration's Citizenship USA program, thousands of criminal suspects were rushed through the naturalization process without proper background checks in order to get them on the voting roles on time for that year's presidential election. According to former Justice Department investigator David Schippers, under the accelerated procedures, the U.S. was swarming with: • More than 75,000 new citizens who had arrest records when they applied. • An additional 115,000 citizens whose fingerprints were unclassifiable for various technical reasons and were never resubmitted. • Another 61,000 people who were given citizenship with no fingerprints submitted at all. At least one new citizen was already in jail by the time he was naturalized under the Clinton administration's program. According to Schippers' 1999 book, "Sell Out," Jamie Gorelick was tasked with expediting the new rules under which criminal background checks were suspended for new immigrants. newsmax.com