Has anyone heard of this book going after Fitz? It's called "Triple Cross"

[Ignacio Upton]

So I went into Borders this weekend and I noticed on the table of new books, there was this nearly-1,000 page book by a guy named Peter Lance, who basically blames Patrick Fitzgerald for the rise of Al Qaida in the '90s, mainly because there was a double-agent in the CIA who helped Bin Laden in the years leading up to the 1998 African Embassy Bombings. I'm wondering why he's devoting a whole book to slamming Fitz? Is this another "blame Clinton" type of campaign? However, Lance, is not a right-winger like the Clinton-bashers who gave us Path to 9/11. What type of wingnut would post on Hufffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-lance/al-qaeda-and-the-mob-how_b_34336.html


Also, I found some interesting points made by Larry Johnson over at TPMCafe debunking some of Lance's attacks on Fitz:

http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2006/nov/20/peter_lance_crisscrossed


...What do you think? Is this a hit-job on Fitz a la "blame the Clenis?" Or is it merely an honest criticism?

[hsher]

1. Anyone goes after the Fitz, there'll be me and hell to pay

Capable, dependable, unshakeable: that's the man. Even if it is honest criticism, I give it a feh.

[Nozebro]

10. What has he done to justify those accolades, in your opinion? EOM

nt

[kimmerspixelated]

11. Right On!

[spillthebeans]

2. Peter Lance is ehm... I don't know

Guests: David Ray Griffin, Alex Jones, Peter Lance, Michael Levine, Morgan Reynolds

http://physics911.ca/Noory:_Coast_to_Coast_round_table


You might listen to this roundtable

[Ignacio Upton]

3. Unfortunately, some people here like Jones and Griffin

Even though they advocate bizarre off the wall shit.

[spillthebeans]

7. I remember the interview

where they start to talk about the possibility of bombs and Lance is considering the possibility that AL-Qa-eda snuck into the buildings and planted bombs. He is so funny (I don't remember the exact words and context)

[bananas]

9. "Lance countered that Jones' theories were preposterous"

Peter Lance and Mike Levine are not conspiracy theorists.

http://physics911.ca/Noory:_Coast_to_Coast_round_table

"Investigative reporter Peter Lance countered that Jones' theories were preposterous, and that by blaming a "shadow government" the effectiveness of al Qaeda is underestimated. Lance does believe that the U.S. government was negligent in its failure to detect the plot, and criminally culpable in its subsequent cover up of the facts. He sent us the following related links to audio and articles.

Mirroring some of Lance's assertions, radio host Mike Levine said there is enough evidence to put people in front of a grand jury, to face charges related to the deceptions and ineptitudes perpetrated by governmental agencies. Specifically he cited a case where the FBI stopped Joe Weber, head of the Houston office of Homeland Security, from investigating al Qaeda fundraising efforts."

[Gregorian]

4. Fitzgerald had the option of getting convictions or none. (see this video!)

I saw a discussion on this over the weekend. No, it was THIS...

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=3195658770053494633


To be honest, Bush One and the cia/fbi are the ones to blame for not stopping what growth of al Qaida they knew about. See that video and you'll get it.

There was a key operative who was not only given license to live in the country, but even when he was apprehended in Canada, was let off the hook and released back into the American public. That video is damning. And you only need to pick it up at the one hour mark to get much of the damning stuff.

In it, they discuss why Fitz was only able to do what he did.

Sorry, I don't have the brain that many here have. I just can't pull details back out of my brain. I'm not that kind of person. But I try.

[H2O Man]

5. He is an author

hoping to sell books. To blame any federal prosecutor for the growth of a movement in the Middle East and parts of Asia seems to be a stretch.

[tanyev]

6. Fitz knew all about Al Qaida before he got sucked into the

Plame rabbit hole. I'll bet he has a lot of very interesting questions to ask the members of Bush's misadministration if investigations ever get started. There are probably quite a few people desperate to discredit him before he gets that opportunity.

[Ignacio Upton]

8. He helped bring down AQ members behind the 1998 embassy bombings

So yeah, he's familiar with Al Qaida.