🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 22:07:56 GMT, "tronlab" <tronlab@tampabay.rr.com>
wrote:

>Bush is a liar and a killer. infowars.com

And your a inbred moron, but we don't hate you for it.


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>"Vendicar Decarian" <VD@Pyro.net> wrote in message
>news:Ybhec.12195$R37.687@read1.cgocable.net...
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>> "Vendicar Decarian" <VD@Pyro.net> wrote in message news:...
>> Ex-FBI worker challenges 9/11 `lie'
>> Claims U.S. had warnings of airplane attacks
>>
>> White House adviser's statements `not accurate'
>>
>>
>> TIM HARPER
>> WASHINGTON BUREAU
>>
>> WASHINGTON-When Condoleezza Rice takes her seat before the independent
>9/11
>> commission here Thursday her assignment will be nothing short of halting
>the
>> most serious assault yet on the credibility of U.S. President George W.
>> Bush.
>>
>> Sitting in the hearing room as Rice testifies will be a 33-year-old former
>> FBI translator who may yet hold the key to the question now engulfing this
>> nation - did an indifferent Bush administration ignore specific warnings
>> that Al Qaeda was about to launch horrific attacks in the United States on
>> Sept. 11, 2001?
>>
>> While allegations brought by former counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke
>> have swung the tide against the Bush White House in recent weeks, Sibel
>> Edmonds delivered her own broadside against her government in private,
>> during more than three hours of testimony to investigators for the 9/11
>> panel on Feb. 11.
>>
>> > Edmonds, who was hired as a translator by the FBI nine days after the
>> > attacks, told the investigative panel she has seen and handled
>> intelligence
>> > documents and cables that show Rice, the national security adviser, is
>> wrong
>> > when she says there was no advance warning of air attacks on U.S. soil.
>> >
>> > She saw intelligence documents that pointed to the use of aircraft
>against
>> > skyscrapers in major U.S. cities.
>> >
>> > "We had various information from various sources and investigations,"
>she
>> > said in an interview yesterday.
>> >
>> > "In terms of specific cities? Yes. It was not only New York and
>> Washington,
>> > D.C. There were four or five cities specifically named.
>> >
>> > "There were specific activities known. Domestic institutions were being
>> > targeted and airplanes were going to be used. That was known. Now, did
>it
>> > say Sept. 11, 8:30 in the morning? I am not aware of such information.
>Did
>> > it say it was going to crash the planes in the building? I am not privy
>to
>> > that information.
>> >
>> > "But there was specific information on the use of airplanes. There were
>> > people issuing orders and information on people already in place in this
>> > country months before Sept. 11."
>> >
>> > She said she is not passing on hearsay, but information on specific
>> > documents, the names of witnesses, the names of FBI agents and other
>> > information so investigators can rely "not on my word," but on the
>> documents
>> > themselves. Most of them were dated April and May, 2001, she said. She
>has
>> > previously provided such information to congressional investigators.
>> >
>> > Edmonds, a Turkish-born U.S. citizen, said she was "appalled" by Rice's
>> > public statements, delivered in a number of television interviews, that
>> > there was no information indicating planes would be used on domestic
>> > targets.
>> >
>> > Had Rice indicated that she did not know, Edmonds may have given her the
>> > benefit of the doubt.
>> >
>> > "Then I would say maybe the FBI did not take the information to her,
>maybe
>> > she didn't know," Edmonds said.
>> >
>> > "But she's is saying `we' did not know, including herself, her advisers
>> and
>> > the FBI. That statement is not accurate. I've never really been
>diplomatic
>> > in life. It's a lie and a lie is a lie."
>> >
>> > An Aug. 6, 2001, daily intelligence briefing prepared for Bush indicated
>> Al
>> > Qaeda might have been planning to hijack airplanes, a point the White
>> House
>> > has not disputed.
>> >
>> > Rice has maintained there was no specific information in the briefing
>that
>> > would indicate the planes could have been used for suicide missions
>> against
>> > U.S. targets, a point that critics have always questioned.
>> >
>> > On the CBS program 60 Minutes eight days ago, she said everything
>pointed
>> to
>> > "an attack abroad."
>> >
>> > In an opinion piece for the Washington Post published last month, Rice
>> > wrote: "Despite what some have suggested, we received no intelligence
>that
>> > terrorists were preparing to attack the homeland using airplanes as
>> > missiles.
>> >
>> > "Some analysts speculated that terrorists might hijack planes to try and
>> > free U.S.-held terrorists."
>> >
>> > Yesterday, two major U.S. newspapers ran front-page stories that gave
>> > further credence to the testimony of Clarke.
>> >
>> > The New York Times published an exhaustive study of anti-terrorism
>efforts
>> > by the Bush White House during the summer of 2001, concluding that
>> vigilance
>> > may have peaked in early July that summer, followed by "a scattered and
>> > inconsistent" effort in the weeks before Sept. 11.
>> >
>> > The Washington Post, in a series of interviews with former
>administration
>> > officials and congressional investigators, found broad support for
>> Clarke's
>> > claim that the White House reacted slowly to warnings of the attacks.
>> >
>> > The paper also reviewed declassified testimony given by Clarke in 2002
>in
>> > front of congressional investigators and found no clear evidence of
>> > contradictions in his later testimony.
>> >
>> > Also yesterday, the chair of the commission investigating the attacks
>said
>> > the White House would vet its final report "line-by-line," a review
>Thomas
>> > Kean said he was surprised to learn was required by law.
>> >
>> > Vice-chair Lee Hamilton, in a joint appearance on NBC's Meet the Press
>> with
>> > Kean, said the commission will abide by the law but will not allow the
>> White
>> > House to "distort" the report.
>> >
>> > Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, and Hamilton, a former
>> > Democratic congressman from Indiana, are to submit their final report in
>> > late July.
>> >
>> > "I've been surprised by some of the things we've found," Kean said.
>> >
>> > It is impossible to corroborate Edmonds' statements, but she knows there
>> > have been attempts to discredit her. She knows whistle-blowers are often
>> > dismissed "as kooks or nutcases" and she shares that opinion regarding
>> some
>> > others who make unsubstantiated claims or promulgate conspiracy
>theories.
>> >
>> > She is also embroiled in a legal battle with U.S. Attorney-General John
>> > Ashcroft over her dismissal from the FBI. But she says she cannot be
>> written
>> > off as a disgruntled ex-employee because she was making allegations
>about
>> > slipshod procedures within the FBI before she fired.
>> >
>> > Edmonds has filed a lawsuit against the department, saying she was fired
>> > after she raised security concerns within the FBI. The justice
>> department's
>> > internal inspector-general is investigating her claim she was fired in
>> > reprisal for her allegations about shoddy transcriptions, unqualified
>> > translators and a potential security breach.
>> >
>> > "She is a spectacular woman," said Edmonds' New York lawyer Eric Seiff.
>> >
>> > "If I am being fooled here, then I am being fooled big time. She comes
>> > across as wonderfully straight with me in all our dealings."
>> >
>> > Bush, after months of refusals, succumbed to public pressure and allowed
>> > Rice's public testimony this week.
>> >
>> > --
>> > "We must create a <economic> crisis in order to ensure that there is no
>> > alternative to a smaller government." - Bush - Imprimus Magazine 1995.
>> >
>> > "We seek to remove resources from the control of the state, thereby
>> starving
>> > it." - International Society for Individual Liberty - NeoCon
>Libertarian.
>> >
>> > "Throughout his term, Bush has implied tax cuts would starve the
>> government,
>> > paying for themselves by causing budget deficits that, in turn, would
>> place
>> > heavy pressure on Congress to lower spending." - Jeff Lemieux - Senior
>> > Economist - Progressive Policy Institute.
>> >
>> > "They have an agenda which is to starve the government of revenue. But
>in
>> > order to get it through, they keep on having to pretend that the tax
>cuts
>> > are affordable, and so they've been suppressing the likely cost of
>> > everything, including the war on terror." - Paul Krugman - Economist.
>> >
>>
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