In the Months Before 9/11, Justice Department Curtailed ...

[Nicholas_J]

NEWSWEEK: In the Months Before 9/11, Justice Department Curtailed Highly Classified Program to Monitor Al Qaeda Suspects in the U.S.
Sunday March 21, 10:51 am ET
'They Came in There With Their Agenda and was not on it,' Says Former Counterterrorism Chief Clarke of Bush Administration


NEW YORK, March 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Newsweek has learned that in the months before 9/11, the U.S. Justice Department curtailed a highly classified program called "Catcher's Mitt" to monitor Al Qaeda suspects in the United States, after a federal judge severely chastised the FBI for improperly seeking permission to wiretap terrorists. During the Bush administration's first few months in office, Attorney General John Ashcroft downgraded terrorism as a priority, choosing to place more emphasis on drug trafficking and gun violence, report Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff and Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas in the March 29 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, March 22).

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Bush administration already trying to smear Clarke by connecting him to Kerry, in sources like Newsmax.


Tonight Clarke is on 60 Minutes tomorrow, the Newsweek edition on Clarks report appears, this week Clinton and other Clinton administration officials testify before the 9/11 comission on Bush's ignoring critical intelligence on Al Qaeda. Then Kerry comes back from vacation.

[boobooday]

1. WOW WOW WOW

This is very exciting. This might stick. OH PLEASE! IMPEACHMENT! This guy makes Nixon look like Mahatma Ghandi.

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[Leilani]

2. OK, great news!

But how many think the media will run with this story & POUND it, like they did Monica, or Kobe, or Michael Jackson, or Martha Stewart.

I suggest we all CALL, WRITE, EMAIL all media outlets to COVER this story. This is far more serious than Watergate. Remember, Nixon didn't lie to get us into a war.