Question on Flight 93

jlew24asu

Collin wrote:

How the fuck can a blowjob put your administration at risk?

becuase he lied about it under oath which is grounds for impeachment. should I explain further?

El_Kabong

jlew24asu wrote:

no one, even me, expected such an attack. and I think clinton and bush (upon taking office) under estimated the resolve of our enemys. you (not you personally) cant complain about how much we spend on defence and then bitch about making cuts in relative peaceful times.

then why are you complaining about clinton?

jlew24asu

El_Kabong wrote:

then why are you complaining about clinton?

im not, im just so tired of the bush bashing.

El_Kabong

jlew24asu wrote:

im not, im just so tired of the bush bashing.

cool, now that we all got that out of the way perhaps we can get back to the original point of the thread?

ledvedderman

El_Kabong wrote:

or when an FBI budget official told the Joint Inquiry that counterterrorism was not a priority for Attorney General Ashcroft before September 11, and the FBI faced pressure to make cuts in counterterrorism to satisfy his other priorities.

or when FBI officials sought to add hundreds more counterintelligence agents, they got shot down even as Ashcroft began, quietly, to take a privately chartered jet for his own security reasons.”

or the White House plan to sharply cut an emergency F.B.I. request for $1.5 billion in extra counterterrorism money after the attacks.

or in the months before 9/11, the U.S. Justice Department curtailed a highly classified program called "Catcher's Mitt" to monitor Al Qaeda suspects in the United States

or official annual budget goals memo mentions 7 strategic goals, not one is related to anti terror efforts. The same document by Janet Reno the previous year was delivered a month earlier and put counter terrorism as one of two top priorities

or upon taking office, the 2002 Bush budget proposed to slash more than half a billion dollars out of funding for counterterrorism at the Justice Department. In preparing the 2003 budget, the New York Times reported that the Bush White House "did not endorse F.B.I. requests for $58 million for 149 new counterterrorism field agents, 200 intelligence analysts and 54 additional translators" and "proposed a $65 million cut for the program that gives state and local counterterrorism grants." Newsweek noted the Administration "vetoed a request to divert $800 million from missile defense into counterterrorism

or when the Bush Administration opposed Clinton Administration-backed efforts by the G-7 and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that targeted countries with "loose banking regulations" being abused by terrorist financiers. Meanwhile, the Bush Administration provided "no funding for the new National Terrorist Asset Tracking Center

or when Gen. Don Kerrick, who served in the Bush White House, sent a memo to the new Administration saying "We are going to be struck again" by al Qaeda, but he never heard back. He said terrorism was not "above the waterline. They were gambling nothing would happen

El_Kabong is the fucking man...

I was just trying to go with the general statement trying to see what the response was, but damn...that was a fucking knockout blow

back to the topic..