[Tfug] Spy Bill Debate Comes to an End

[Christopher Robbins]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 8:30 AM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> I seem to recall the government had the intel to know 9/11 was going to
> occur and just did not act on it.
>
> Given that do they need to violate my rights to correct a management
> problem?
>

>From what I've read, the Bush administration had the intelligence about
Osama bin
Laden when Clinton walked out the door.  I believe it was in Richard
Clarke's book
that Clinton's National Security Advisor gave the Bush Administration the
infromation/
intelligence they needed, and warned them they should take him out.
Instead, they acted
as if it wasn't important and didn't need handling.

As well, the Presidential Daily Brief for August 6, 2001 states that Bin
Laden was preparing
for attacks on the US (see -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_Ladin_Determined_To_Strike_in_US)
While our Commander-in-Chief cleared brush at the "Western White House",
these warnings
and concerns were ignored, with the result we saw on 9/11/2001.

Where the hell was our President?  We had plenty of big-time advisors on the
first Bush
Administration (Clarke, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Powell, et al); why didn't
any of THEM take
this stuff seriously?  To ignore warnings like that and to be reactive
instead of proactive (which
has been the modus operandi of this administration) borders on treason.

What does terrorism matter anyway? $150/barrel oil?  Gas at $4?  Massive
housing foreclosures?
Possible bank failures (Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac) on Monday?
An economy broken
by greed.  We're in deeper shit than just the surveillance (though I most
certainly don't agree with
domestic spying)...

And hell no, we don't need to toss the Constitution aside to correct a
management problem! o.O


-- 
Chris Robbins
Systems Programmer
Department of English - University of Arizona
http://www.homerengineeringcorp.net
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