-Caveat Lector-
Reprinted from NewsMax.com
CIA Officials Reveal What Went Wrong – Clinton to Blame
Christopher Ruddy
Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001
The worst, single most tragic day in the history of America has just passed.
Tuesday more Americans likely died than all the casualties of the Battle of Antietam
on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 1862.
Already the media spin on yesterday's events is relentless.
The talking heads are pushing several themes, including:
* Now is not the time to point fingers at responsible parties in America, i.e.,
political figures like Clinton or our own security agencies.
* The events of Tuesday are the "worst-case scenario" – the worst is over.
* Osama bin Laden is the culprit.
On these points of spin, the first one is baloney. Of course we need to find why our
security failed. This is basic.
And unless the big media are consulting a psychic better than the one I use, no one
knows what the future days, weeks and months may yield.
This is not the worst-case scenario. A worst-case scenario is a 25-megaton nuclear
bomb detonated in New York or a full-scale attack against the U.S.! These should not
be ruled out.
These dangers can be avoided, we pray, but only if we stop listening to the media
idiots that feed us a diet of blow-dried nonsense. Is Katie Couric going to say how
bad she feels for the terrorists who were driven to these cowardly acts?
It is the big media and the hack politicians that led us to this nightmarish day.
Smart to Examine Who Failed Us
We are Americans, so let's get our feet back on the ground and use common sense.
The media say we shouldn't point fingers. (Funny, isn't it, how the media have spent
30 years pointing fingers at Richard Nixon for his alleged crimes, but when one of
their liberal favorites is due for some blame, they feed us the mantras like "Let's
move on!" and "No time to point fingers!")
Common sense, in fact, dictates that we need to critically examine the people who are
to blame for this incident, both the perpetrators (and if you believe Osama bin Laden
was the major mastermind behind this, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I want to sell you)
and the people we pay to protect us – that is, our national security agencies.
Without question, these agencies failed miserably in preventing this sophisticated,
wide-scale and coordinated attack against America.
Intelligence Agencies Failed Miserably
Tuesday I received an e-mail from a recently retired high-ranking CIA official. I will
identify him as "Harry":
Here's what Harry said:
"... Reacting effectively and justly to this [attack] makes us hugely dependent on
intell [intelligence] capabilities that failed us miserably. This is an enormous
liability, which we shall not be able to fix before we have to react. Payback time for
the last eight years!"
He continued: "There were clearly enormous failures here. This operation was ingenious
in its simplicity, which would have limited the size (number of people, actions) of
the operation and hence detectability. But it could not have been that small for at
least a dozen men to hijack four carefully chosen aircraft (routes, fuel load) with
carefully coordinated timing. And to get through security with knives big enough to
subdue four relatively large crews. If the intell and security systems claim that this
challenge is simply too hard for them, they have to be replaced, root and branch.
Because this challenge is the challenge. It is now pretty self-evident that claims of
reform and adjustment [at the intelligence agencies] to new realities that we've heard
over the past eight years or so are hollow."
Of course, it's obvious why the media doesn't want any finger pointing.
Guess who ran the U.S. government and was responsible for our national security for
the past eight years?
Yes, you got it, Bill Clinton, Hillary's husband.
Clinton Responsible for Unpreparedness
The Clintons were supported vociferously by the media through the worst imaginable
scandals.
During that time I was one of the lead reporters opposing the Clintons. I was mocked
and vilified by my colleagues for doing so.
I said throughout that period that Bill Clinton's personal corruption was wholesale
and mirrored how he was corrupting America's national security.
I wrote articles and said repeatedly that America, sadly, may end up paying a heavy
price for Bill Clinton and the major media's complicity.
I don't believe the worst has passed with the incidents of today.
We remain vulnerable and weak.
Brutally, we witnessed our weakness today.
During eight years, Clinton decimated America's military. Our forces were cut almost
in half under his stewardship.
Research and development on all new weapons systems were brought almost to a halt as
other nations continued to build. Clinton destroyed nearly our entire arsenal of
tactical nuclear weapons. Monsters like Saddam flourished as Clinton bombed aspirin
factories, tent cities in Afghanistan and worthless radar stations in the Iraqi desert.
These are open facts, easily verifiable.
Clinton, the Ever-Clever Bastard
But Clinton, the ever-clever bastard, was more insidious. Little, systematic changes
were undertaken to destroy America's intelligence agencies.
Let me explain. A regular NewsMax reader, "Roger," was a CIA spy in the Mideast.
I met him almost two years ago. Roger wanted to tell me why a gung-ho American quit
the CIA in disgust.
Roger said the CIA was not interested in recruiting spies.
Clinton and company knew they could not just tell the CIA to stop recruiting spies.
That would look stupid and embarrassing.
So they just changed the rules of how spies are recruited, raising the bar on
requirements to such a high degree that the most valuable spies could never meet CIA
standards and couldn't work for us.
Previously, I wrote how Clinton effectively stopped the recruitment of Chinese
nationals by demanding that only high-ranking embassy officials could be recruited –
knowing this is almost impossible. Roger told me that. Roger reminded me again of this
today.
He noted that Clinton policies reached their zenith under CIA Director John Deutch and
his top assistant, Nora Slatkin. The pair ran Clinton's CIA in the mid-1990s and
implemented a "human rights scrub" policy.
Here's how Roger described it in an e-mail Tuesday evening: "Deutch and Nora,
Clinton's anti-intelligence plants, implemented a universal 'human rights scrub' of
all assets, virtually shutting down operations for 6 months to a year. This was after
something happened in Central America (there was an American woman involved who was
the common law wife of a commie who went missing there) that got a lot of bad press
for the agency.
"After that, each asset had to be certified as being 'clean for human rights
violations.'
"What this did was to put off limits, in effect, terrorists, criminals, and anyone
else who would have info on these kinds of people."
Roger says the CIA, even under new leadership, has never recovered from the "Human
Rights Scrub" policy.
Perhaps that was the intention.
But we, the American people, Congress, and honest media need to examine all of these
issues, now and quickly. If we don't, we risk even more grave dangers than those that
we just lived through.
AB
--
TO KEEP THE PEACE,
KEEP YOUR PIECE!
AB
__________________________________________________________________
Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the
convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/
Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
<A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A>
DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER
==========
CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic
screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are
sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis-
directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with
major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought.
That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and
always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no
credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.
Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
========================================================================
Archives Available at:
http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html
<A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A>
http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
<A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A>
========================================================================
To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:
SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:
SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Om
