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

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (564798)	4/15/2004 9:16:46 AM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769667

Sure....since the historic PDB mentioned terror attacks against federal buildings.....we should have just shut down all the federal buildings in New York.....oh wait...the towers were not federal buildings.....

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (564798)	4/15/2004 9:24:43 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Kerry has held national office for a lifetime and has nothing positive to show for it. Bush has held office for only 3 years and has already responded effectively to terrorism - which neither Kerry nor Clinton ever did.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (564798)	4/15/2004 9:29:27 AM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

NATIONAL DISGRACE, CONT'D April 15, 2004 -- House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner has demanded the resignation of Jamie Gorelick as a member of the federal 9/11 Commission. Frankly, given her blatant conflicts of interest, she should never have been appointed in the first place. One stunning Gorelick conflict emerged at Tuesday's public commission hearing: Attorney General John Ashcroft disclosed that in 1995, Gorelick - while deputy attorney general under Bill Clinton - wrote a memo ordering the FBI to separate counterintelligence work from criminal investigations. As Ashcroft put it, this memo - which went beyond what federal law required - erected a legal wall between the FBI and CIA, creating "the single greatest structural cause for September 11." So. How can someone who played a key role in the events under investigation possibly sit as one of the investigators? Indeed, Gorelick has a proper role to play with the commission - as a witness, grilled under oath about her own actions. And what was Commission Chairman Tom Kean's response to calls for Gorelick's dismissal or resignation? "People ought to stay out of our business," he huffed. Funny, but isn't the commission meant to be conducting the people's business? As it turns out, the memo is just the tip of the iceberg concerning Gorelick's questionable fitness as a member of the panel. That's because she's a litigation partner in one of Washington's most high-powered Democratic law firms - Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. And that firm represents Prince Mohammed al-Faisal al-Saud, a member of the Saudi royal family and director of a key Saudi financial agency, against a lawsuit filed by a coalition of 600 Sept. 11 families. The lawsuit, filed by Families United to Bankrupt Terrorism, seeks "to cut off the pipeline that fueled the al Qaeda terrorists" - a pipeline in which the high-paying client represented by Gorelick's law firm reportedly played a central part. The prince is chairman of Dar al-Maal al-Islami (DMI), which boasts $1 billion in assets. One of its subsidiaries is the Al-Shamil Islamic Bank, whose directors include Osama bin Laden's half-brother and his brother-in-law. According to congressional testimony last October by Jean-Charles Brisard, an international expert on terrorism financing, the Swiss-based DMI "is one of the central structures in Saudi Arabia's financing of international Islam," and is rooted in the House of Saud's "support for the radical Islamic cause." DMI, according to published reports, was a major shareholder of a Bahamian Islamic bank that was shut down after Washington tabbed it a centerpiece of Osama bin Laden's financial network. Though Gorelick may not be litigating the lawsuit, as a partner she profits from her firm's work for the Saudi prince. Gorelick, who might have become attorney general in an Al Gore administration, could get that same job if John Kerry wins in November. If all of this is not intolerable for a 9/11 commissioner, then there's no such thing as conflict of interest. The blatant anti-Bush partisanship demonstrated by Richard Ben-Veniste and Bob Kerrey long ago brought disgrace upon the commission. Now this. What a sick, sad joke. nypost.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (564798)	4/15/2004 9:49:01 AM
From: JDN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

AND, which warnings were those? Lets just face the truth for a change. The FBI was HAMSTRUNG by laws promulgated under a Democratic Congress FORBIDDING them to associate and recieve or give information to the CIA. The CIA was hamstrung by Torecelli and who else, why KERRY HIMSELF through rules and budget cuts that caused them to lose 25% of their personnell. This is what allowed Terrorists to get past our outter defenses and into the heart of America. jdn

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (564798)	4/15/2004 7:11:26 PM
From: E. T.	Respond to of 769667

You can't blame Bush for Bush's failure to follow up on the CIA warnings because he was on vacation in Texas. Besides a quick read of the memo informs any right leaning reader that there was no threat, not really. That's why the President didn't do anything, because the memo's message was that Osama Bin Laden was planning to use explosives in the U.S. So of course, there was nothing to do, really. The message was historical, that's all. To think otherwise is to be a traitor, that's right, a traitor!