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To: SilentZ who wrote (190395)6/12/2004 7:07:14 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1575761
 
>> Every single one of those guys had to make it into the U.S. after having trained in terrorist camps overseas

This was no problem. Clinton had no interest in Al Qaeda as we know.

they had to communicate over and over with known terrorists in the Al-Qaida network and had to get money wired from that network to them

I'm not sure they had to communicate that much, other than to get money. And there is this email thingy...

four box cutters had to get through security

Plastic box cutters. Any one of us could have waltzed through Airport Security at the time with those same plastic box cutters. Undetected.

Such as?

You're kidding, right? How about the organization of an entirely new department of government; transitions of various other organizations to be run by it; innumerable legislative actions; major changes in the function of CIA, FBI, and other agencies; huge information-gathering efforts an numerous locations; major treasury-based investigations in attempting to locate funding sources. Man, I don't know, there are literally THOUSANDS of changes that have been made -- any one of which might take months or even years in the hands of less able leadership.

Perhaps you've never dealt with the federal government bureaucracy.



To: SilentZ who wrote (190395)6/9/2013 8:11:26 AM
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They instituted the Patriot Act, which I don't like much.

Do like Obama and his abuses of the Patriot Act?