"Tim McNamara" <
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> In article
> <7195742d-d359-494e-8d91-1ce7277d8dc6@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
> Ron Ruff <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Jun 10, 7:34 pm, "Bill Sornson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > SMS wrote:
>> > > Undoing eight years of W is going to be a daunting task for
>> > > whoever gets elected.
>> >
>> > Yeah, no attacks in nearly 8 years
>>
>> This is hilarious! Where do you get this stuff?
>>
>> Nearly 7 years I guess... but how many years did we go before that
>> without any attacks?
>
> Hey, man, the War of Terror is like tiger repellant I just bought. I
> look around, no tigers, stuff must work great! The War of Terror and
> the Trillion Dollar Tax Cut and unbridled irresponsible pork barrel
> spending 2000-2006 resulting in expansion of the national debt to
> $9,413,165,479,470.23 was worth it. We're safe as houses now.
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020812/story.html
"Berger attended only one of the briefings-the session that dealt with the
threat posed to the U.S. by international terrorism, and especially by
al-Qaeda. "I'm coming to this briefing," he says he told Rice, "to
underscore how important I think this subject is." Later, alone in his
office with Rice, Berger says he told her, "I believe that the Bush
Administration will spend more time on terrorism generally, and on al-Qaeda
specifically, than any other subject."
http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/911_TerrFin_Ch6.pdf
"Contrary to a common misconception, the FBI did not ignore terrorist
financing before 9/11. The intelligence side of the FBI gathered extensive
information on terrorist fundraising in the United States, although the
Bureau lacked any strategy for disrupting the activity. In various field
offices around the country, street agents actively investigated groups and
individuals, including GRF and BIF, suspected of raising funds for al Qaeda
or other extremist groups. Working in the face of many obstacles, including
what agents believed to be a dysfunctional FISA (Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act) process, these agents aggressively gathered information
and tried to coordinate with other field offices, the intelligence
community, and even foreign governments."
By all means tell me - do you want an all-powerful government capable of
virtually anything? Or do you want one relatively tightly controlled but one
that has a great deal of trouble responding to new dangers?
