February 24, 2004
NYSlimes continues to bash CIA, give Clinton Admin a pass
C.I.A. Was Given Data on Hijacker Long Before 9/11
You can read this "story" for yourself, but I'm not excerpting it for the usual LyingLiberalLeft reason that it's poorly done and propagandistic. (Duh.)
The article is 2 pages long, revolves around our intell in 1999 and yet manages not to mention that it was the Clinton Administration at the helm once.
Further, the Slimes's writer presupposes that the German government would have given us full cooperation to track Al-Shehhi and his jihadi Muslim friends like Mohammed Atta.
In the pre-9/11 world, I think that's a huge if.
Worse still, it makes no mention of the laws that President Bush has passed since 9/11 like the fine Patriot Act which now gives our law enforcement the tools they need to detain and prosecute those who would make war on Americans, yet the Slimes reserves the right to bash on about the Patriot Act and how it "impares civil liberties" here constantly.
(Had we known about the proclivities and dark goals of the 9/11 hijackers much before that black day and picked them up in this country, how many Libs would have been out squeeling and whining in the streets about "racial profiling," "persecution," etc.? Plenty.)
Nor does the Slimes talk about how the CIA (and the FBI, too, among other federal security agencies) was hampered by rules and regulations which sprung out of the Frank Church Committee hearings and also from legislation by Robert Torricelli in the Senate (which John Kerry supported) imposed on the CIA (from the President down to CIA operatives in the field) which tied the CIA's hands when dealing with evildoers abroad.
All in all, this is more coulda, shoulda, woulda from the Left who I think are out to bring down the CIA.
As I've said before, our CIA isn't perfect, but it hasn't been so bad and certainly not so bad that it should be "revamped" or done away with altogether.
We're still at war and need the CIA and its vital intell now more than ever!
What the NYTimes would like to see is a completely crippled CIA because now our intelligence is telling us that there is plenty of trouble brewing for us all over the globe, starting with Iran:
Another Nuclear Program Found in Iran
and if there's anything the Liberal Left hates it's an America that acts, especially preemptively, to take out threats before they strike.
They hate a President that acts, too.
And they're not real fond of Americans who love that sort of America and that sort of President.
For shame, NYTimes.
Yet this is a the same paper that published the obituaries of the 3,000 American citizens who were killed on 9/11.
I am speechless with anger at their condescension and their smugness!
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