Aug
17
2005
From this local news source here in DC we find a very troubling pattern of dangerous lawyering: 1996: Strike One “We had an al Qaida finance person named Khalifa in custody in San Francisco and, in essence, he was the money behind bin Laden,” says Fred Burton, the deputy chief of counter-terrorism at the State […]
Aug
17
2005
Wow! I never, ever thought a national democrat politician would ever think of aligning themselves with Cindy Sheehan. But Russ Feingold is doing just that – in a strange bid for the White House. Sen. Russ Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat, will call Thursday for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq by Dec. 31, […]
Aug
17
2005
This is actually very interesting, and one could say good news {hat tip Drudge]. I think the Pentagon is not going to try and white wash this. Lt. Col. Chris Conway, a Pentagon spokesman, said Wednesday an investigation into Able Danger was under way. The department “has been working to gain more clarity on this […]
Aug
17
2005
When reading Debrah Orin’s piece out today it is important to recall that the FBI operated in field offices, tied to their local US Attorney Offices. In the Clinton administration the lead FBI field office for Al Qaeda and Bin Laden was in NYC as a result of the WTC bombing in 1993, and the […]
Aug
17
2005
UPDATE: OK, the entire post has been a day long update, but Ed Morrissey’s readers have been out searching and finding more terrorist attacks and highjackings from 1998-2001 which were directly tied, at the time, to Iraq. Lot’s of folks are wondering how all these attacks connected to Iraq got lost in the 9-11 Omission. […]
Aug
17
2005
While we are realing from the Able Danger blockbuster news, Clinton decides to come out trying to claim he wished he had better information on the USS Cole bombing so he could have acted on Bin Laden. So one has to wonder about this news out from the Dept of State saying they tried to […]