Reply #5: The commission did point out that the Republican controlled Congress [View All]

[BrendaStarr]

hurt counterterrorism in the late 90s with their constant scandalmongering.

Instead of trying to impeach and remove the president because he had sex they could have been looking into whether our intelligence agencies were functioning adequately.

Also there was the fact that the investigation of everything Clinton took up the time of up to 200 FBI agents at any one time and $70 million taxpayer dollars that could have been used to improve our national security.

Or Bush could have simply passed on the alerts he was getting in the summer of 2001 to the airlines, airports,and the public, like Clinton did in December 1999, when his people stopped the millenium attacks. That one simple possible act was fingered by the 9/11 commission as a possible block to the entire 9/11 operation. But then Bushie would have hurt the airlines bottom line (though they were much more damaged after 9/11). (The Bush people claimed to have alerted the airlines and airports, but Logan airport for one says they were given no warnings or alerts all summer.)

You will hear, or read possibly that Jamie Gorelick is responsible for the inability of the CIA to investigate Americans while they are within the US, but that's not true. The wall refusing to let CIA investigate Americans and (green card and visa holders as defined later) was created when the CIA was created to keep the CIA from being like Hitler's SS. Porter Goss sponsored a bill to break down that wall about a month before his appt. to the CIA post. The Bushies definitely want to be able to use the CIA to spy on Americans, and have wanted that for a while. Jamie Gorelick wrote a memo on the wall that constrains the FBI, but she did not create the block on the FBI. A Congressional bill did that c. a couple of decades before.

As I see it this sudden revelation will be used to do 2 other things as well though.

First, it will make everything that the 9/11 commission found suspect (though it was the Pentagon that hid the information), and second to keep the Congress busy so that they don't have time to get into investigating the obstruction of justice of the members of the Bush administration.

Now we can sit here and watch all this go by just like the Downing Street Memos, and Karl Rove or we can get out and keep the important facts in front of the eyes of Americans.