Sunday, April 18, 2004
Ashcroft blames HIS inept preformance on suprise, suprise a former deputy Attorney General under Bill Clinton, Jamie Gorelick
Here's her responce!
No one has ever said Clinton was perfect when it came to terrorism he made mistakes, yet this administration cuts funding or doesn't fund at all Counter terrorism to fund missile defense or plan a war against Iraq before OBL was even brought to justice.
Republicans are crying over the 9/11 commision being televised and the more they do the more Ken Starr keeps bouncing around my head. They NEVER would exploit something like this if 9/11 happened on Gore's watch or Clinton's, they're known for their level heads.
Integrity is lost on this group regardless of the mess it made
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Here's her responce!
The commission investigating the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has a critical dual mission to fulfill -- to help our nation understand how the worst assault on our homeland since Pearl Harbor could have occurred and to outline reforms to prevent new acts of terrorism. Under the leadership of former governor Tom Kean and former congressman Lee Hamilton, the commission has acted with professionalism and skill. Its hearings and the reports it has released have been highly informative, if often disturbing. Sept. 11 united this country in shock and grief; the lessons from it must be learned in a spirit of unity, not of partisan rancor.
At last week's hearing, Attorney General John Ashcroft, facing criticism, asserted that "the single greatest structural cause for September 11 was the wall that segregated criminal investigators and intelligence agents" and that I built that wall through a March 1995 memo. This is simply not true.
First, I did not invent the "wall," which is not a wall but a set of procedures implementing a 1978 statute (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA) and federal court decisions interpreting it. In a nutshell, that law, as the courts read it, said intelligence investigators could conduct electronic surveillance in the United States against foreign targets under a more lenient standard than is required in ordinary criminal cases, but only if the "primary purpose" of the surveillance were foreign intelligence rather than a criminal prosecution.
No one has ever said Clinton was perfect when it came to terrorism he made mistakes, yet this administration cuts funding or doesn't fund at all Counter terrorism to fund missile defense or plan a war against Iraq before OBL was even brought to justice.
Republicans are crying over the 9/11 commision being televised and the more they do the more Ken Starr keeps bouncing around my head. They NEVER would exploit something like this if 9/11 happened on Gore's watch or Clinton's, they're known for their level heads.
Reagan apologized for the Marine barricks.
Kennedy apologized for the Bay of Pigs.
The Bush administration.........blamed the Clinton administration!
Integrity is lost on this group regardless of the mess it made
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