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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_urchin who wrote (12251)	12/28/2005 11:10:55 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

FISA Court Prevented Al Qaeda Taps Before 9/11 Sweetness & Light ^ \| December 27, 2005 \| sweetness-light.com How soon (and conveniently) the media forget. Behold this passage from the May 2002 issue of the DNC organ, Newsweek: foi.missouri.edu uscourts.gov US District Judge Royce C. Lamberth WHAT WENT WRONG The inside story of the missed signals and intelligence failures that raise a chilling question: did September 11 have to happen? By Michael Hirsh and Michael Isikoff May 27/02 ...NEWSWEEK has learned there was one other major complication as America headed into that threat-spiked summer. In Washington, Royce Lamberth, chief judge of the special federal court [the FISA Court] that reviews national-security wiretaps, erupted in anger when he found that an FBI official was misrepresenting petitions for taps on terror suspects. Lamberth prodded Ashcroft to launch an investigation, which reverberated throughout the bureau. From the summer of 2000 on into the following year, sources said, the FBI was forced to shut down wiretaps of Qaeda-related suspects connected to the 1998 African embassy bombing investigation. “It was a major problem,” said one source familiar with the case, who estimated that 10 to 20 Qaeda wiretaps had to be shut down, as well as wiretaps into a separate New York investigation of Hamas. The effect was to stymie terror surveillance at exactly the moment it was needed most... And yet elsewhere Judge Lamberth has bizarrely cited the African embassy wiretaps as proof of the importance of his job: An Interview with Judge Royce C. Lamberth Judge Royce C. Lamberth, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, was appointed to the federal bench in 1987. Before joining the Judiciary he was a U.S. Army Captain in the JAG Corps, an assistant U.S. attorney, and Chief of the Department of Justice Civil Division. He recently completed a term as presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Q: You've called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court "the least known, but probably most important court in the war on terrorism?" Why? A: The FISC has nationwide jurisdiction to authorize the United States government to conduct electronic surveillances and physical searches for national security purposes when the target is a foreign power or the individual is acting as the agent of a foreign power. Major international terrorist groups may be targeted by the FBI, CIA, NSA and other intelligence agencies. Since 9-11, invaluable intelligence information has been sought and obtained as a result of warrants and orders issued by this court. There's no question that every judge who has ever served on this court has thought it was the most significant thing they've ever done as a judge. When I did the hearings on the embassy bombings in Africa, we started the hearings in my living room at 3:00 in the morning. And some of the taps I did that night turned out to be very significant and were used in the New York trials of the people indicted for the bombings. These wiretaps were so "significant" that Lamberth stopped them and any others like them in the year and a half prior to 9/11 -- just because of a personal snit. Something to bear in mind when we hear it bewailed how Bush neglected to go to the FISA courts for permission to monitor al Qaeda phone calls.

To: sea_urchin who wrote (12251)	12/28/2005 4:59:18 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 20039

> If you read the PNAC and the Clean Break documents, both written by the neocons, you will see that US foreign policy has been designed around Israel's "security" rebelion.org >>Leading Zioncons, like Libby, drew up a war strategy for the Likud government in 1996, and then recycled the document for the US war against Iraq before and immediately after 9/11/01. Along with their rise to the most influential positions of power in the Bush administration, the Zioncons attracted new recruits, like New York Times reporter Judith Miller. What is striking about the operations of the Zioncon ‘cabal’ is the very open and direct way in which they operated: former Director of the National Security Agency (under Reagan) Lt. General William Oden, retired Marine General Anthony Zinni, Colonel K. Wilkerson (former chief of staff of Powell), retired Air Force Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, National Security Adviser to President George Bush (the First) Brent Scowcroft, and numerous disenchanted officials, including veterans of the intelligence agencies, high level observers, and former diplomats openly criticized the Zioncon takeover of US policy and the promiscuous relationship between them and Israeli Generals, Israel’s secret international police, the Mossad, who had total access to their offices. In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, Zioncons Wolfowitz and Libby were the architects of the military strategy for Rumsfeld and Cheney, their putative bosses. Douglas Feith established the “Office of Special Planning” to fabricate the lies to justify the war. Judith Miller, David Frum and Ari Fleisher served to disseminate the lies and war propaganda through articles, interviews, press conferences, and speechwriting for President Bush. A review of the leading newspapers and government documents reveals that at every point in time and policy, the Zioncons echoed, to the letter, the policy demands emanating from the Sharon regime: the US should invade and destroy the Iraq regime and state apparatus. Not a single Zioncon in the government, outside in the prestigious private universities or think tanks voiced the minimum deviation from the war policy of the Sharon regime. In what is probably one of the most cynical ploys in recent history, the Zioncons Anti-Arab, Anti-Islam crusade on behalf of Greater Israel was portrayed as a policy of democratizing the Middle East… from those who bombed Jenin into rubble to those who napalmed Fallujah into ruin.<<