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Our torturous vice president.

By Satyam on Jan 3rd, 2008 at 8:06 pm

Our torturous vice president.»

Yesterday, Attorney General Mike Mukasey announced a DoJ probe into the CIA’s torture tape destruction. The Washington Post’s Dan Froomkin raises the question of whether the probe will investigate the roles of Vice President Dick Cheney and his chief of staff, David Addington:

cheney23557.JPGCheney has been the administration’s central figure on all things related to torture. […]

So it should have come as no surprise when the New York Times reported last month that David S. Addington, Cheney’s chief of staff and former legal counsel, was among the three White House lawyers who participated in at least one key meeting about the videotapes in 2004.

The initial spin from the White House was that only Harriet E. Miers, then a deputy White House chief of staff, had been briefed about the tapes — and that she had advised against their destruction.

But with anything related to torture, it’s pretty clear the CIA took its orders from Cheney — via Addington. And how plausible is it that, in his exchanges with the CIA, Addington advised against the tapes’ destruction? Or that the CIA would have done it if he had told them not to? Isn’t it more likely that he supported the idea, either overtly or with a nod and a wink?




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204 Responses to “Our torturous vice president.”

  1. Badmoodman Says:

    David Addington giving a nod and a wink??
    Trompe l’oeil!!


  2. Zooey Says:

    Addington/Cheney: Just don’t let anything happen to those tapes.
    **wink wink**


  3. robertoroberto Says:

    Maybe he had juice in his eye. Seinfeld fans?


  4. Little Freep Goofballs Says:

    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 8:22 pm

    >> COUGH COUGH


  5. Little Freep Goofballs Says:

    Be careful when you’re dusting off the old “Clinton did it too” lie.


  6. Guido OBGYN Lover Says:

    Lock Cheney up b4 his heart peters out.


  7. enough Says:

    As my mother-in-law used to say, “From your lips to God’s ear.”


  8. Xisithrus Says:

    omment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 8:22 pm

    Thats not a reason to continue it, its a cop-out.


  9. Above the Clouds Says:

    You got it all mixed up, troll-dude: It was “Clinton blowjob” and “Cheney torture.” And besides, Bush’s failed presidency is not Clinton’s fault. It’s Cheney’s. Can a man who surrounds himself with unprincipled and derelict people like Wolfowitz, Libby, Cheney, Rove, and Rumseld really expect success?


  10. Starve-A-Bush_Feed-A-Beaver Says:

    The policy of extraordinary rendition was enacted in 1995 when Bill Clinton was president. Michael Scheuer, who devised the rendition policy, says that suspects were tortured during the Clinton years.

    Comment by Manslagt

    So are you criticizing Bush for continuing the torture policy, or are you praising Clinton, or do you care whether or not you make sense?


  11. Zooey Says:

    If it was okay for Clinton to do it before 9/11, why isn’t it okay for Bush to do it after 9/11?
    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 8:38 pm

    Because it’s WRONG, you f_cking moron.


  12. OptimisticMF Says:

    Here’s the excerpt from the article:

    “George W. Bush was still struggling to coax oil out of the ground when the United States “rendered to justice” its first suspect from abroad. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan authorized an operation that lured Lebanese hijacker Fawaz Younis to a boat off the coast of Cyprus, where FBI agents arrested him. (Younis had participated in the 1985 hijacking of a Jordanian plane and was implicated in the hijacking of TWA Flight 847, which left a U.S. Navy diver dead.) President George H.W. Bush approved the kidnapping in 1990 of Mexican physician Humberto Alvarez Machain, who was believed to be involved in the torture and killing of a Drug Enforcement Administration official. Nothing says that renditions can involve only suspected terrorists; Israel’s abduction of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960 could be called a rendition, though the term was not yet in use.

    Beginning in 1995, the Clinton administration turned up the speed with a full-fledged program to use rendition to disrupt terrorist plotting abroad. According to former director of central intelligence George J. Tenet, about 70 renditions were carried out before Sept. 11, 2001, most of them during the Clinton years.”

    Yes, Clinton did it too, but the precedent was set long before that. So, you’re point is???


  13. Xisithrus Says:

    If it was okay for Clinton to do it before 9/11, why isn’t it okay for Bush to do it after 9/11? Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 8:38 pm

    I never said I though it was okay for Clinton to do it.


  14. Zooey Says:

    Sidney Blumenthal was in the Clinton administration and has joined the Hillary team. Can a woman who surrounds herself with unprincipled and derelict people like Blumenthal really expect success?
    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 8:43 pm

    Provide a link showing that Blumenthal is unprincipled and derelict.


  15. Zooey Says:

    So why were you moonbats silent when Clinton was doing it?
    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 8:44 pm

    How do you know we were? BTW, TP wasn’t around back then.


  16. barfly Says:

    So why were you moonbats silent when Clinton was doing it?

    Comment by Manslagt —

    Why were you silent when Reagan and Bush’s father did it?


  17. Xisithrus Says:

    So why were you moonbats silent when Clinton was doing it?
    Comment by Manslagt.

    Did you know the Bible is primarily about astrology, would you drop the inane Limbaugh code-word?

    I didnt even have a computer in 1995, nor did I blog about politics until recently.


  18. barfly Says:

    “Beginning in 1995, the Clinton administration turned up the speed with a full-fledged program to use rendition to disrupt terrorist plotting abroad. According to former director of central intelligence George J. Tenet, about 70 renditions were carried out before Sept. 11, 2001, most of them during the Clinton years.”

    And George Tenet is the gold standard for truth-telling, right?

    I wouldn’t believe George Tenet about anything. The guy’s too concerned about covering his own ineptitude.


  19. Xisithrus Says:

    So one protested policies they disagreed with before there were computers and blogs? Comment by Manslagt

    So why arent you protesting the current admins policy?


  20. ForTruth Says:

    Manslaughter is pointing out the possibility that there may be other powerful interests at work. There may not be a real difference between Democrats and Republicans.


  21. RUCerious Says:

    Wasn’t Eichmann ‘renditioned’?

    Watch your ass Bush/Cheney…


  22. Zooey Says:

    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 8:50 pm

    A book critique? By Michael Isikoff, a guy who hates Blumenthal?

    You must be joking!

    Another “Leftist Nazi” moment for Slag. Jesus christ…


  23. barfly Says:

    “Keep in mind that it was Blumenthal who was telling journalists such as Christopher Hitchens that Monica Lewinsky was a stalker.”

    Comment by Manslagt —

    And keep in mind that Mike Isikoff was one of the most tenacious of Clinton and Gore’s enemies. He fully engaged in “the war on Gore,” repeating the most inane of republican talking points in print.


  24. Zooey Says:

    Manslaughter is pointing out the possibility that there may be other powerful interests at work. There may not be a real difference between Democrats and Republicans.
    Comment by ForTruth — January 3, 2008 @ 8:56 pm

    Blumenthal is clearly no f_cking Karl Rove.


  25. Xisithrus Says:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition

    I read where the Clinton admin practiced extraordinary rendition, but that word does not actually mean torture. It is a violation of international law,


  26. RUCerious Says:

    Clinton wasn’t a saint, but Bush is most assuredly a demon based on the carnage he hath wrought.


  27. Starve-A-Bush_Feed-A-Beaver Says:

    Manslaughter is pointing out the possibility that there may be other powerful interests at work. There may not be a real difference between Democrats and Republicans.

    Comment by ForTruth

    Yes, but he’s not saying that. He’s supporting Bush for continuing Clinton’s rendition and torture policy, but he’s not praising Clinton for doing something he values. He’s intellectually dishonest. Here, you get two choices: either you support rendition and torture and therefore must praise Clinton, or you do not support rendition and toture and must condemn Bush. You get no third choice.


  28. barfly Says:

    Let’s take a closer look at manslagt’s link:

    4. Rendition is just a euphemism for outsourcing torture.

    Well, not historically. The guidelines for Clinton-era renditions required that subjects could be sent only to countries where they were not likely to be tortured — countries that gave assurances to that effect and whose compliance was monitored by the State Department and the intelligence community. It’s impossible to be certain that those standards were upheld every time, but serious efforts were made to see that they were. At a minimum, countries with indisputably lousy human rights records (say, Syria) were off-limits. Another key difference: Renditions before Bush were carried out to disrupt terrorist activity, not to gather intelligence or to interrogate individuals.


  29. ForTruth Says:

    Yo Zooey wassup?

    Yeah I know Manslaughter is supporting Bruschco by vehicle of doorknobitry. I decided to re-frame his crap to support my position. Therefore removing his power as a troll.


  30. Xisithrus Says:

    I have no problem with terrorists being made to feel uncomfortable for a few seconds. Unlike you and TP, I am not objectively pro-terrorist.

    Comment by Manslagt

    You shouldn’t assume, for when you do your projecting, and when you project, your wrong.


  31. Zooey Says:

    Isikoff is one of your fellow leftwing moonbats.
    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 9:00 pm

    First, Isikoff is no “moonbat.” Second, even if he were, we don’t fall into lockstep behind every lunatic out there, just because they MIGHT be on our side.

    That’s the difference between us and you — we have minds of our own, and fully functional moral compasses.


  32. barfly Says:

    I think you’re confused. Isikoff has written a book with extreme leftist David Corn, wrote the bogus story about Korans being flushed down the toilet at Gitmo, and attacked Stephen Hayes after Hayes published an article on Iraq-al Qaeda connections. Isikoff is one of your fellow leftwing moonbats.

    Comment by Manslagt —

    I don’t think so. Try The Daily Howler. They’ve the scoop on Spikey Mike.


  33. Oval12345678 aka James K. Sayre Says:

    Ah, the Bush crime family investigating the Bush crime family… Do you think that the Bush crime family will find that the Bush crime family has committed any crimes?


  34. ForTruth Says:

    Manslat,

    In what way did Clinton’s sanctions on Iraq contribute to the death of all those kids? How “indirect” are we talking here. Like the “indirect” effects of depleted uranium? Or the “indirect” effects of white sulfur?



  35. Xisithrus Says:

    Bush’s desire to protect the American people and Clinton’s desire to protect his presidency. -MS

    A: Bush doesnt care where Osama is.
    B:REPUBLICAN MYTH 671 DEMS ARE WEAK ON TERROR

    Let’s look at facts…
    Clinton Administration developed the nation’s first anti-terrorism policy, and appointed first national coordinator of anti-terrorist efforts.
    Clinton Administration stopped the Al Qaeda millennium hijacking and bombing plots.
    Clinton Administration stopped the planned attack to kill the Pope
    Clinton Administration stopped the planned attack to blow up 12 U.S. jetliners simultaneously
    Clinton Administration stopped the planned attack to blow up UN Headquarters
    Clinton Administration stopped the planned attack to blow up FBI Headquarters
    Clinton Administration stopped the planned attack to blow up the Israeli Embassy in Washington
    Clinton Administration stopped the planned attack to blow up Boston airport
    Clinton Administration stopped the planned attack to blow up Lincoln and Holland Tunnels in NY
    Clinton Administration stopped the planned attack to blow up the George Washington Bridge
    Clinton Administration stopped the planned attack to blow up the US Embassy in Albania
    – Tried to kill Osama bin Laden and disrupt Al Qaeda through preemptive strikes (efforts denounced by the G.O.P.).
    – Brought perpetrators of first World Trade Center bombing and CIA killings to justice.
    – Did not blame Bush I administration for first World Trade Center bombing even though it occurred 38 days after Bush left office. Instead, worked hard, even obsessively — and successfully — to stop future terrorist attacks.
    –Named the Hart-Rudman commission to report on nature of terrorist threats and major steps to be taken to combat terrorism.
    -Clinton Administration sent legislation to Congress to TIGHTEN AIRPORT SECURITY. (Remember, this is before 911) The legislation was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the airlines.
    -Clinton Administration sent legislation to Congress to allow for BETTER TRACKING OF TERRORIST FUNDING. It was defeated by Republicans in the Senate because of opposition from banking interests.
    -Clinton Administration sent legislation to Congress to add tagents to explosives, to allow for BETTER TRACKING OF EXPLOSIVES USED BY TERRORISTS. It was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the NRA.
    -Clinton Administration increased the military budget by an average of 14 per cent, reversing the trend under Bush I.
    -Clinton Administration tripled the budget of the FBI for counterterrorism and doubled overall funding for counterterrorism
    -Clinton Administration detected and destroyed cells of Al Qaeda in over 20 countries
    -Clinton Administration created national stockpile of drugs and vaccines including 40 million doses of smallpox vaccine.
    -Of Clinton Administration’s efforts says Robert Oakley, Reagan Ambassador for Counterterrorism: “Overall, I give them very high marks” and “The only major criticism I have is the obsession with Osama”
    -Paul Bremer, current Civilian Administrator of Iraq disagrees slightly with Robert Oakley as he believed the Clinton Administration had “correctly focused on bin Laden.
    -Barton Gellman in the Washington Post put it best, “By any measure available, Clinton Administration left office having given greater priority to terrorism than any president before him” and was the “first administration to undertake a systematic anti-terrorist effort”


  36. RUCerious Says:

    Looks like Obama with a slim lead of 34% to 32 for both Edwards and Clinton, with 46% of the precincts reporting, unofficial tally.


  37. Xisithrus Says:

    We might have been spared 9/11.

    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 9:08 pm

    How? By ignoring PDB’s?


  38. Xisithrus Says:

    As far as the children in Iraq -MS

    Your confusing Al Qaeda with Saddam and the Gulf War Sanctions.


  39. Brain From Planet Arous Says:

    So why were you moonbats silent when Clinton was doing it?

    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 8:44 pm

    Why do Crackpot Evangelicals and Fundies think sex is more dangerous than death and destruction?


  40. ForTruth Says:

    Ok Manslaughter, both Democrats and Republicans pull the same sh!t. Like I said, what’s the real difference?


  41. freeman Says:

    Manslaughter ,
    Torture is criminal under our treaties and international obligations and a war crime. Period !
    The rights which the Bush Administration has been attempting to erradicate are INALIENABLE and no law ever passed by lawyers in Washington will ever change that !
    Habeas corpus is A BASIC RIGHT ! Being slaughtered in your home because you live in a country which dicK cheney covets is a war crime , no matter what anthem is playing in the background .
    Spying without a warrant on millions of AMericans is treason . Signing statements are treasonous . Extraordinary rendition , lies to go to war resulting in the deaths of millions , the wounding and maiming of many times that and the destruction of a Iraq’s infrastructure , a war crime .
    A private contracted mercenary army operating within the US and on the streets of an american city , treasonous . ect …..
    Got morals ?


  42. barfly Says:

    barfly:

    You’re still ignoring what Michael Scheuer said about rendition and torture during the Clinton year. I provided a link above.

    Comment by Manslagt

    You mean this?

    Even more crucially, Scheuer’s rendition programme stated that snatched suspects would be taken to the US as prisoners of war, protected by the Geneva Conventions. The Clinton administration, however, says Scheuer, forbade this, insisting instead on sending captives to whatever nation had tried them or had an outstanding warrant for them. To give them PoW status would have given them credibility, in the eyes of the administration, and they didn’t want that, Scheuer says.

    So Clinton did rendition prisoners - but only to countries that didn’t torture, and to countries that adhered to the Geneva conventions.

    I never claimed Clinton didn’t - I was talking about Tenet’s claim, as to how many during the Bush administration and how many during the Clinton administration. Scherer didn’t deal with that, did he?

    So Manny, Clinton didn’t torture, nor send folks where they could be tortured.


  43. Xisithrus Says:

    No confusion on my part. Can’t say the same about you and those “ignored PDBs.”

    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 9:17 pm

    Cant say the same about you and the Clintons desire to protect his presidency myths.


  44. Nat Says:

    Actually, I wrote that maybe Clinton should have done it more than he did. We might have been spared 9/11.
    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 9:08 pm

    What do you mean? 9/11 happened on Bush’s watch not Clinton’s.


  45. Xisithrus Says:

    That’s an odd allegation. If it were true, the evangelical population would not be growing so rapidly.

    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 9:18 pm

    Yeh, just look at their leader Haggard, he liked gay sex and drugs.


  46. Starve-A-Bush_Feed-A-Beaver Says:

    Actually, I wrote that maybe Clinton should have done it more than he did. We might have been spared 9/11.

    Comment by Manslagt

    And again I accuse you of intellectual dishonesty. This is about principles, not partisan politics. Torture is an issue far more important than left or right, Democrat or Republic. Unlike you, I have principles and I will condemn torture whether a Democrat or a Republican perpetrates it. But you are incapble of praising someone who puts into place a practice that you value, torture, when a Democrat utilizes it. I’m waiting for you to praise Clinton for his rendition policy, as apparently it is a policy you value. But of course I only see your intellectual dishonesty. You want it both ways. You want to praise Bush for continuing a policy that existed under Clinton, but you nonetheless want to condemn Clinton, even though you maintain that he utilized the same policy. You worship a man and a party. You do not even have the honesty to praise Clinton for advancing a policy that you value. That proves you are not a man of principle. You believe in a government of men, not of laws. And for you it depends on who the man is and what party he is from and not principle.


  47. Zooey Says:

    What do you mean? 9/11 happened on Bush’s watch not Clinton’s.
    Comment by Nat — January 3, 2008 @ 9:19 pm

    Clinton got a blowjob that Slag really wishes he would have gotten, so from now on everything is Clinton’s fault. Simple!


  48. Xisithrus Says:

    Someone could write a book on the Clintons’ efforts to rewrite Bill Clinton’s record on Iraq and terrorism.

    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 9:20 pm

    Yeh, that must be why Brent Scowcroft said Saddam was a problem but not a problem of terror and that going into Iraq would undermine the war on terror and destabilize the middle east, just like its doing today.


  49. barfly Says:

    Scheuer accepts that targets were tortured both before and after 9/11. “I have no doubt about it,” he says. “You’d think I’m an ass if I said nobody was tortured. There was more of a willingness in the White House to turn a blind eye to the legal niceties than within the CIA. The Agency always knew it would be left holding the baby for this one.

    He doesn’t specifically state that folk were tortured during the Clinton admin., just “before 9/11.”


  50. barfly Says:

    “You’re not too sharp, are you? I said that maybe Clinton should have done it more than he did.”

    Look who’s talking. Perhaps if you’d read your link a little closer you’d see the little mistake I just pointed out to you.


  51. barfly Says:

    “You either did not read the article closely or you are lying. Scheuer made clear that it occurred under Clinton.”

    Comment by Manslagt —

    I just posted from the article, fool. Too bad you can’t read any better than that.


  52. barfly Says:

    From the article (fool):

    Scheuer accepts that targets were tortured both before and after 9/11. “I have no doubt about it,” he says. “You’d think I’m an ass if I said nobody was tortured. There was more of a willingness in the White House to turn a blind eye to the legal niceties than within the CIA. The Agency always knew it would be left holding the baby for this one.

    Try again.


  53. Xisithrus Says:

    If you can’t debate the facts, throw out a personal attack. It’s the moonbat way.

    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 9:28 pm

    Yet your being a hypocrite when you continue to use moonbat.


  54. Starve-A-Bush_Feed-A-Beaver Says:

    You’re not too sharp, are you? I said that maybe Clinton should have done it more than he did. That means I supported what he did, but think he probably didn’t do enough. Obviously, he did not do enough to prevent 9/11.

    Comment by Manslagt

    You’re not too honest, are you. You did not offer a scintilla of praise for Clinton in your previous posts. Did you.

    So you supported Clinton, then? Did you manifest your support for Clinton for the policies you apparently now praise? Did you contribute to his campaign? Did you vote for him? I note that in your previous posts you accuse Democrats of having been silent while Clinton was utilizing rendition. Were you silent in offering your support of Clinton? Or were you just the partisan hack you now appear to be?


  55. barfly Says:

    “Scheuer accepts that targets were tortured both before and after 9/11. ”

    A little vague to be hanging a “Clinton did it too” on it.


  56. Xisithrus Says:

    Clinton was smart enough to know that the war on terror is an assymetrical battle that cant be fought by occupying countries. Ergo Clinton got rid of these groups in 20 countries while George has us bogged down in two countries that has not defeated Al Qaeda in ither one, which is harming our economy and wearing out the military thru nation building.


  57. Nat Says:

    What’s that got to do with it? The Soviet Union fell on Reagan and Bush 41’s watch. To you give them 100% of the credit for that?

    I give them little or no credit.

    Nurse A gives a patient the wrong medication a half hour before her shift ends. The patient dies one hour into Nurse B’s shift. Is Nurse B responsible for the patient’s death because it occurred on her watch?
    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 9:23 pm

    Wrong scenario. Nurse A was watching a patient with an unknown disease and her shifts end. She tells Nurse B to watch the patient carefully so nothing happens. Nurse B goes shopping for shoes and the patient dies.


  58. freeman Says:

    punchy man,
    very adroit at partisan rhetoric and word play with no pronciples or morals to get in your way . A full half of the posters here I wager are actually independents dissatisfied in the extreme with the democratic party in general and it’s leadership in general .
    People whose principles are more important than the democratic party . Generations of Americans made the ultimate sacrifice to protect those values , which you are willing to give away .
    You mock their memory and sacrifices with your word play but that ,probably, is as easy for you as the defense of war criminals and torture .
    I rest my case .


  59. Nat Says:

    You’re not too sharp, are you? I said that maybe Clinton should have done it more than he did. That means I supported what he did, but think he probably didn’t do enough. Obviously, he did not do enough to prevent 9/11.
    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 9:25 pm

    Again, 9/11 happened on Bush’s watch not Clinton’s. The Bush administration did absolutely nothing before 9/11 in respect to terrorism and Al Qaeda. They were more concerned with taxcuts for Bush’s base (the haves and the have mores).


  60. freeman Says:

    BASIC RIGHTS ARE INALIENABLE !……. GOD


  61. Arn Gunnutes Says:

    Unlike you and TP, I am not objectively pro-terrorist.

    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 8:57 pm

    Actually, unlike us or TP, you ARE pro-TERRORIST.

    MURDERER George W. Bush the COXUCKER punk TRAITOR to the USA is the BIGGEST terrorist, along with his Saudi buddies and Bin Ladens.

    Sincerely,

    NRA Gun Nutes


  62. Xisithrus Says:

    That’s a completely bogus figure. By 9/11, al Qaeda was in nearly 70 countries and getting stronger. Al Qaeda was a ragtag group in 1993, yet grew exponentially during the Clinton years.

    They grew during the Reagan Freedom Fighter Years.

    Nice try.


  63. Xisithrus Says:

    You says its a bogus figure then say they grew during the Clinton years making Al Qaeda in 20 countries…bogus?


  64. Xisithrus Says:

    They grew during the Afghanistan war years Manslagt. Freedom Fighters, YaY Mujahdeen -Reagan.


  65. Nat Says:

    The 9/11 pilots were in this country before Bush was elected president. I guess it’s also Bush’s fault that they were allowed in without proper documentation.

    I doesn’t matter. Bush did absolutely nothing in respect to terrorism and Al Qaeda before 9/11. If he spent just an ounce of time focused on it as he was with taxcuts, 9/11 wouldn’t have happened.

    And your contention that the Bush administration was doing nothing regarding terrorism and al Qaeda before 9/11 is contradicted by the final paragraph in the August 6 PDB, which I suspect few on you moonbats have even read.
    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 9:45 pm

    What did the final paragraph of the PDB which the Bush administration ignored say?


  66. Nat Says:

    Read it.

    Post it.

    BTW, that PDB was not ignored.
    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 9:57 pm

    Of course it was ignored that’s why we had 9/11.


  67. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    Well,
    Since your traitor-in-Chief never released the PDB, it is pretty hard to read it asshole.
    But CNN has a transcript, and accordingly the last paragraph says:
    “The FBI is conducting approximately 70 full-field investigations throughout the U.S. that it considers bin Laden-related. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our embassy in the UAE in May saying that a group or bin Laden supporters was in the U.S. planning attacks with explosives.”

    And your useless point is…?



  68. Zooey Says:

    Read it. BTW, that PDB was not ignored.
    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 9:57 pm

    What would you call it then?


  69. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    Oh, so now taking money to speak is the same as sucking Saudi COX. Get real fu(kwad traitro lover.
    Remember the dress, remember the dress. You got some spluge on your chin.


  70. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    “Bin Laden determined to strike in US”
    “Bin Laden determined to strike in US”
    “Bin Laden determined to strike in US”
    “Bin Laden determined to strike in US”
    “Bin Laden determined to strike in US”
    “Bin Laden determined to strike in US”
    “Bin Laden determined to strike in US”
    “Bin Laden determined to strike in US”

    ANd yet, you want to blame Clinton for not hitting Bin Laden 3 years prior. You are out of your fu(king mind. Traitor lover.


  71. Nat Says:

    You’re ignoring the final paragraph og the PDB.

    Post it.

    And if Clinton had pursued bad guys with as much enthusiasm as he pursued bad girls, al Qaeda were have been wiped out by 1997.

    Clinton was multitasking and prevented any attacks by Al Qaeda on U.S. soil. On the other hand, Bush went on vacation and Al Qaeda attacked us.


  72. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    “And if Clinton had pursued bad guys with as much enthusiasm as he pursued bad girls, al Qaeda were have been wiped out by 1997.”

    This is the final paragraph of a formal governement document, I think not lying mutherfuker. Traitor Lover


  73. Arn Gunnutes Says:

    #

    #

    Arn:

    “MURDERER George W. Bush the COXUCKER punk TRAITOR to the USA is the BIGGEST terrorist, along with his Saudi buddies and Bin Ladens.”

    Last time I checked, Bill Clinton and Al Gore took money from the bin Laden family to speak in Jeddah. This was after 9/11. And there is quite a bit of Saudi money in the Bill Clinton museum and Massage Parlor in Little Rock.

    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 10:00 pm

    Maybe they did.

    But the Bin Ladens did business with the Bushes for 30 YEARS.

    And the Saudis are the FINANCIERS of Al Queda in Iraq and beyond.

    Yet the Saudis are NOT on the TERRORIST LIST.

    So, we attacked Iraq, where we are 2.4 TRILLION quagmired.\

    And Osama is STILL FREE 6 years later.

    Not to mention EXPOSING CIA WMD spies like Valerie Wilson, thus TRAITOR Bush SABOTAGED OUR NATIONAL SECURITY.

    And gagged Sibel Edmonds.

    And refused to investigate the FRIENDLY-FIRE death of Pat Tillman, citing “executive privilege”, one of MANY citings to cover his TREASONOUS ACTS.

    MURDERER Bush is a COXUCKER punk TRAITOR to the USA.

    Sincerely,

    NRA Gun Nutes


  74. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    NOT TAKE A MONTH OFF, THAT IS DAMN SURE SHITHEAD.
    Traitor Lover.


  75. Zooey Says:

    With it’s lack of “proof or specificity,” what would you have done?
    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 10:05 pm

    I would have called a meeting of my cabinet members. I would have been meeting with my terrorism expert all along, and I would listen to his advice about any doubts or questions I might have. I would send someone immediately to investigate the pilot schools. I would have ordered increased security at all airports.

    I would have done SOMETHING — not gone f_cking FISHING.


  76. Nat Says:

    Let’s pretend that your were president on August 6, 2001 and you read that PDB. With it’s lack of “proof or specificity,” what would you have done?
    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 10:04 pm

    I would have kept an eye out on Al Qaeda which is more than what the Bush administration did. They did absolutely nothing in regards to terrorism and Al Qaeda before 9/11.


  77. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    So, is that Manslagt, because you are choking on Man stuff? Like Bush’s COX?
    Traitor lover.


  78. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    So, dickhead, you are saying that you would not have done ANYTHING different if you had also stolen the Presidency and were sitting in Texas on your month long FIRST vacation, after working only 8 months? That is what you are saying traitor lover?


  79. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    I would have called for the beheading of all traitor lovers like yourself. ROund em up, cut em off.


  80. freeman Says:

    Comment by Nat # 85
    Actually 1/3 of the AMerican people believe the bush Administration was directly involved in 911 and the attack on our nation . surely after the use of near dictatorial powers ,
    the patriot act , which only 2 senators read befors passage which has essentially rewritten the entire criminal code of the US ,
    signing statements used to violate 1/3 of all the laws passed since 911 ( GAO )
    Total and ttransparent lies used to justify the invasion of a nation which had absolutely nothing to do with 911( 911 commission ) but happens to sit above the worlds 2nd largest oil supply and whose invasion for the purposes of control of world oil supplies was written and signed onto by the members of this administration pre 911 ( PNAC ),
    Blackwater , a mercenary army with a budget of billions operating on American soil , pointing guns at AMerican citizens ( new orleans )
    Spying in violation of the laws of the US on millions of innocent citizens and collecting the information ,Wiretapping telephones , illegally looking at the computer browsing habits of the citizens as well as what they read at ther library,
    striking down our MOST basic right’s and the very right which all other rights hang upon ,habeas corpus,
    ramping up a war with a country for reasons , which we now know the president has been long aware of , are falsehoods and fabrications ( NIE ),
    the list ,that we know of ,goes on and on … each new piece of the puzzle more unsavory than the last and the trolls response is Clinton did it too ?
    Wake up punchy man , your ignorance of basic American values is TORTUROUS for anybody who has a conscience !


  81. Nat Says:

    Not quite. U.S. embassies are considered U.S. soil. Al Qaeda also nearly sunk the USS Cole on Clinton’s watch.

    That’s like saying “Why isn’t Bush preventing attacks on Americans in Iraq?”

    One more time. Let’s pretend that your were president on August 6, 2001 and you read that PDB. With it’s lack of “proof or specificity,” what would you have done?

    More than nothing.


  82. Arn Gunnutes Says:

    So, WHY did Bush and Cheney REFUSE to TESTIFY UNDER OATH to the 9/11 Commission, which they resisted forming for over a YEAR?

    That is, TELL THE TRUTH to the Commission AND the AMERICAN PUBLIC?

    Because they were COMPLICIT in 9/11 and with the Saudis and Bin Ladens, and therefore are TRAITORS to the USA?

    Yup. It would seem so.

    Sincerely,

    NRA Gun Nutes


  83. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    I would have blown the cover story of my VP’s plan to overthrow the U.S. Government, and make it so apparent that I have abborgated my oath of office, that I should be shot on sight, by any Consitution loving American with a gun and badge.
    But, I stayed in Texas on my make beleive ranch, doing make believe chores, with my make believe friends and family. ALlowing Darth Cheney to plan the final assault on the country.
    He he, Keep the horses away. He, he.

    Hang the fu(k


  84. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    Kill you. Manslagt.


  85. Zooey Says:

    Specifically, what? Nothing you listed above would have prevented 9/11.
    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 10:14 pm

    Perhaps, but we’ll never know will we? Your King got a PDB that had the title “bin Laden Determined to Strike Within the United States” and did nothing. Absolutely nothing.

    And that certainly did not stop 9/11, did it?

    You are a freeper moron who thinks Nazis were leftists, and that speaks volumes about you.


  86. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    What would you have done? Practice reading My Pet Goat, in preparation of 9/11? That is about all he did. No further investigation, no interest, no questions.
    No American would have done that. These are the actions of a coward and traitor like yourself.
    Traitor LOVER


  87. Zooey Says:

    Manslagt is a complete idiot who is here to clog threads with idiotic freeper shit.

    Flag his ass and get rid of him.


  88. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    I would slit yur throat if you sat next to me right now.


  89. Nat Says:

    Actually 1/3 of the AMerican people believe the bush Administration was directly involved in 911 and the attack on our nation . surely after the use of near dictatorial powers ,
    the patriot act , which only 2 senators read befors passage which has essentially rewritten the entire criminal code of the US ,
    signing statements used to violate 1/3 of all the laws passed since 911 ( GAO )
    Comment by freeman — January 3, 2008 @ 10:14 pm

    There’s no doubt that 9/11 was the Neocon’s dream come true but I chalk it up criminal negligence.


  90. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    Fragh his ass instead.


  91. Arn Gunnutes Says:

    You are a freeper moron who thinks Nazis were leftists, and that speaks volumes about you.

    Comment by Zooey — January 3, 2008 @ 10:18 pm

    Really? That’s IDIOCY.

    Anyone with any SENSE at all knows Hitler was a right-winger, and that the “socialist” in Nazi did NOT make them left-wing…

    But, then again, Bush and Cheney REFUSED TO TESTIFY UNDER OATH TO THE 9/11 Commission, EXPOSED CIA SPIES, and are thus TRAITORS.

    Sincerely,

    NRA Gun Nutes


  92. Xisithrus Says:

    What specifically? (And, again, the final paragraph of the PDB shows that action was being taken during the summer of 2001.)
    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 10:17 pm

    Your saying he did nothing, and I agree.


  93. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    So what would you do with a PDB entitled:
    “Bin Laden determined to strike in US”
    Tell us oh great traitor lover


  94. Starve-A-Bush_Feed-A-Beaver Says:

    And your contention that the Bush administration was doing nothing regarding terrorism and al Qaeda before 9/11 is contradicted by the final paragraph in the August 6 PDB, which I suspect few on you moonbats have even read.

    Comment by Manslagt

    The final paragraph of the August 6th PDB says the FBI had initiated 70 investigations of Al Qaeda in the U.S. Seventy investigations? Is that the massive response to possible terrorism (Bin Laden determined to strike in the U.S.) you refer to? Seventy investigations? I find your use of the August 6th PDB to support Bush’s limp-wristed actions against terrorism to be breathtaking in its audacity. Did you forget the many tips the Bush Administration received in advance of 9/11? Did you forget that French intelligence tipped off the FBI about the presence of known terrorist Moussaoui in the United States and they dragged their feet? Did you forget about Coleen Rawley’s memos to FBI head Robert Mueller that went unnoticed and that her attempts to get an investigation underway went unheaded? Remember that back in 1995, security officials in the Philippines arrested Abdul Hakim Murad and learned of several plots, including a well-financed one to crash a hijacked plane into Langley of which the FBI was aware. Maybe Bush couldn’t have personally known about everything going on. But he sure as hell could have instructed the FBI to be on maximum alert for any tips involving a possible terrorist act, which would have triggered immediate notice of Coleen Rawley’s suspicions about Moussaoui. Bush was derlict in his duties and the August 6th PDB only confirms that fact.


  95. Zooey Says:

    Comment by Arn Gunnutes — January 3, 2008 @ 10:21 pm

    Really. He says since Nazis started in the National Socialist Party, that means they were socialists. :-D

    He’s a f_cking freeper!


  96. Nat Says:

    What specifically?

    More than nothing.

    (And, again, the final paragraph of the PDB shows that action was being taken during the summer of 2001.)
    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 10:17 pm

    What action was taken?


  97. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    Mr Muscle Man Manslaw got fragged and ran with his pussy assed tail between his girly-man legs. What a pussy traitor lover troll.


  98. freeman Says:

    Manster ,
    Sure they hate us because were good and because clinton didn’t do enough to protect us , real astute analysis Manster.Do you think maybe , european colonialism , our endlessly overthrowing other elected democracies and other governments around the world for 60 years, arming , at great profit , conflicts worldwide ( how christian ) and sponsoring the worst dictatorships on the planet , might have played any role or the behavior of israel in palestine ?
    It’s a good thing we have friends like the saudi’s and isn’t it wonderful that at tax payer expence ALL of bin ladens relatives were flown out of the US without even being interviewed within hours of 911 , despite the fact that the vast majority of the terrorists were saudi and bin laden was the supposed mastermind .


  99. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    Yet, interestingly, traitor lover, Clark came out full bore against your traitor lover Heir Bush, the fascist pig.


  100. Zooey Says:

    No proof or specificity. That’s pretty clear.
    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 10:26 pm

    Listen dumbass, there’s a reason that report came our at that time — because things were ratcheting up, and people were getting worried. No, there was no proof — it’s a flipping REPORT. They are ALL speculation to some degree — but you don’t ignore them.

    Tell us again how Nazis are leftists. Convince me. Go ahead…


  101. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    Because they jerk off with their left hands, that is how the traitor lover knows it. Zoo


  102. questioneverything Says:

    Cheney appointed himself VP. He is the torture czar. And how could you paid bloggers know that “Clinton did it too?” Did KKKarl tell you? I am so sick of the crap I read whenever there is a major story that might require impeachment. I am not afraid of you idiots. I will not shut up and I will not go away. 9/11/01 was NINE months after Bush became president. And he ignored the warnings and Cheney was conducting flight training for NORAD planes that day, requiring them to go IN THE WRONG DIRECTION even if they were still in the area. Since when does the VP conduct military operations?

    They will not get away with this. Bushco will be convicted of treason.


  103. Xisithrus Says:

    No proof or specificity. That’s pretty clear.
    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 10:26 pm

    Thats why its called assymetric warfare. And as I noted above, which you apparently haven’t read.
    Clinton Administration sent legislation to Congress to TIGHTEN AIRPORT SECURITY. (Remember, this is before 911) The legislation was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the airlines.


  104. freeman Says:

    There’s no doubt that 9/11 was the Neocon’s dream come true but I chalk it up criminal negligence.

    Comment by Nat — January 3, 2008 @ 10:20 pm

    you may well be right BUT can we really function as a nation if 1/3 of the popualtion believes the Admonistration is capable of this ?


  105. Xisithrus Says:

    Repeat after me, Clinton sent legislation to to congress about tightening airport security [without specificity] was scrapped by the Republicans, which were in control during 911.


  106. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    911 is simple to show as a bullshiit story. They even expect to beleive that physics works differentially.
    The same 757 is susspoed to have the ability to incinerate on contact with the Pentagon, melting the wings and the engines an the tail, but yet have enough mass and velocity to blast through 6, 2 ft, steel reinforced concrete walls over 60 ft from the front wall.
    WHILE
    the same plane 757, could even make it through both sides of the aluminum sknned WTC tower, without touching any of the internal support beams.
    How is that?


  107. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    “Bush asked for it to be written.”

    Tee hee, tee hee.
    OH traitor lover you are fu(king hysterical.

    Bush asked for it to be written.

    BWAHAHAHHAHA!!!


  108. Starve-A-Bush_Feed-A-Beaver Says:

    No proof or specificity. Given that, tell us what action you would have taken on August 6.

    Comment by Manslagt

    But only 70 investigations, in a country the size of the United States where a grave threat was pending. That’s weak, brother, weak. Again, Bush’s duty was to instruct the FBI to immediately pay heed to any tips regarding potential terrorist acts. They ignored the tip of French intelligence about Moussaoui, They ignored Coleen Rowley’s suspicions about Moussaoi. A true President would have made it a high priority, instructing his intelligence agencies that heads would roll if they let a tip, any tip go unnoticed. A known terrorist, Moussaoi was training to fly a 747. That would have triggered alarm bells about other hijackings, but apparently there was no leadership at the head of the executive branch to force the FBI and other intelligence agencies to take notice of Coleen Rowley’s memo. The action Bush should have taken, but did not, was to demand, no absolutely insist that every tip be taken seriously or else. But again, Bush did nothing except passively have his pdb read to him and take a vacation.


  109. Xisithrus Says:

    Bush tightened airport security, without specificity, after 911.

    This is just ludicrous. Bush should have tightened airport security BEFORE the incident, not after it. You can try as you please Manslagt, but your wrong, the Republicans in congress were wrong, Bush was wrong for doing nothing until AFTER the fact.


  110. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    Starve,
    “apparently there was no leadership at the head of the executive branch to force the FBI and other intelligence agencies to take notice of Coleen Rowley’s memo.”
    Yes that is the action that the traitor-in-chief took. He told everyone to stand down.
    Perfect actons for the ultimate traitor.


  111. freeman Says:

    … but barring a national catastrophy it will be hardf to galvanize the American public behind such a scheme .
    PNAC


  112. barfly Says:

    “barfly:

    I’ve read that link several times. If I had read it just once, it would be one more time than you.”

    I notice you haven’t tried to attack the quote (from your link) I posted, that stated people were tortured “before and after 9/11″ but didn’t specifically state that torture was committed during the Clinton administration.

    Could you explain how I could have possibly found, and posted this refutation of your assertion, without reading it, fool?


  113. Xisithrus Says:

    From your link: WASHINGTON - Despite recurrent warnings from official watchdog agencies and presidential commissions [Clinton] that airport security lapses could have catastrophic consequences, government efforts to remedy the problems have been frustrated repeatedly by cost-conscious airlines.

    Thats what I posted before.


  114. TruthOnly Says:

    No proof or specificity. Given that, tell us what action you would have taken on August 6.

    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 10:28 pm

    Your kidding right???

    How about this…….

    http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/ timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&warning_signs:_specific_cases=foreignIntelligence

    Clintons watch:

    1998: Indonesia Gives US Warning of 9/11 Attack?

    1999: British Intelligence Warns Al-Qaeda Plans to Use Aircraft, Possibly as Flying Bombs

    March 1999: Germany Provides CIA Hijacker’s Name and Telephone Number

    August 12, 2000: Italian Intelligence Wiretap of Al-Qaeda Cell Reveals Massive Aircraft-based Strike

    Bush’s watch:

    January 24, 2001: Italians Hear of Brothers Going to US for ‘Very, Very Secret’ Plan, Other Clues

    March 2001: Italians Advise US about Al-Qaeda Wiretaps

    Summer 2001: Bin Laden Speech Mentions 20 Martyrs in Upcoming Attack; Other Hints of Attack Spread Widely

    June 2001: Germans Warn of Plan to Use Aircraft as Missiles on US and Israeli Symbols

    June 4, 2001: Illegal Afghans Overheard Discussing New York City Hijacking Attack

    June 13, 2001: Bin Laden Wants to Assassinate Bush with an Explosives-Filled Airplane

    July 2001: India Warns US of Possible Terror Attacks

    July 16, 2001: British Spy Agencies Warn Al-Qaeda Is in The Final Stages of Attack in the West

    Late July 2001: Argentina Relays Warning to the US

    Late July 2001: Taliban Foreign Minister Tries to Warn US and UN of Huge Attack Inside the US

    Late July 2001: Egypt Warns CIA of 20 Al-Qaeda Operatives in US; Four Training to Fly; CIA Is Not Interested

    Late Summer 2001: Jordan Warns US That Aircraft Will Be Used in Major Attack Inside the US

    August 2001: Moroccan Informant Warns US of Large Scale, Imminent Attack in New York

    August 2001: Russia Warns US of Suicide Pilots

    August 2001: Persian Gulf Informant Gives Ex-CIA Agent Information About ‘Spectacular Terrorist Operation’

    Early August 2001: Britain Warns US Again; Specifies Multiple Airplane Hijackings

    August 8-15, 2001: Israel Reportedly Warns of Major Assault on the US

    August 23, 2001: Mossad Reportedly Gives CIA List of Terrorist Living in US; at Least Four 9/11 Hijackers Named

    August 29, 2001: Cayman Islands Letter Warns of ‘Major Terrorist Act Against US via an Airline or Airlines’

    August 30, 2001-September 4, 2001: Egypt Warns Al-Qaeda Is in Advanced Stages of Planning Significant Attack on US

    Late August 2001: French Warning to US Echoes Earlier Israeli Warning

    September 4, 2001: Mossad Gives Another Warning of Major, Imminent Attack

    September 7, 2001: French Give ‘Very Specific Information’ about Possible Attack on US Soil

    September 7, 2001: Priest Is Told of Plot to Attack US and Britain Using Hijacked Airplanes

    Before September 11, 2001: Three Countries Hear Bin Laden Tell Wife to Return to Afghanistan; This Warning Sets Off ‘Scramble’ in US and Elsewhere

    NOW….. Who could have known that there was going to be an attack?????

    Only an IDIOT like Bush, that’s who……


  115. Xisithrus Says:

    Thanks for proving me correct Manslagt.

    Thanks for playing


  116. freeman Says:

    Considering domestic spying, lies to conduct a war by oil exec’s , kidnapping , torture , the revokation of Habeas corpus for even American citizens who can no longer assume they will not be tortured or given a fair trial , and being endlessly caught lying to the American people on natioal TV ,I see no reson not to trust our leaders .


  117. TruthOnly Says:

    Correction….

    “NOW….. Who could have known that there was going to be an attack?????”

    Should be

    NOW….. Who could NOT have known…..


  118. Xisithrus Says:

    Again, none of you moonbats has told us what you would have done after you read a PDB that lacked any specificity concerning an impending attack Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 10:42 pm

    Gee, lemme think about what I have been posting…tighten aiport security.


  119. Xisithrus Says:

    Now we go through airport checks with no specificity, right? Right Manlsagt?


  120. barfly Says:

    “I’ve read that link several times. If I had read it just once, it would be one more time than you.”,/i>

    You assumed “before and after 9/11″ was a specific statement, and that’s just plain sad…

    Home schooled?


  121. Zooey Says:

    Actually, you wouldn’t know this, but the reaon that report came out is because Bush asked for it to be written.
    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 10:33 pm

    Uh huh. Prove it. PROOF — not book reviews.


  122. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    Still a stupid answer traitor lover.


  123. Xisithrus Says:

    One last time Manslagt, we go through airport checks today with no specificity. According to you we should stop those checks?


  124. barfly Says:

    If there was no specificity, why did the government issue an internal warning to its employees?

    Remember, Ashcroft stopped flying commercial after the warning was issued.


  125. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    You might have read CLark’s book, but you read it with only an eye to find the data that fits into your traitor loving ways.
    McTraitorlovin.


  126. barfly Says:

    When I said you hadn’t read it once, I might the entire article.

    Comment by Manslagt

    Why? because I found the flaw in your assertion?


  127. freeman Says:

    Hope you solve the problems of the day looking back to the last century , mensch shlag . Your inability to be critical in defense of any treason is staggering as is your partisanship in the face of SO MUCH EVIDENCE .


  128. Xisithrus Says:

    Mushroom Cloud Condi?

    Puhllleeez.

    They got us into Iraq with remarks lacking any specificity.


  129. barfly Says:

    And there was historical information in there about various as-pects of al Qaeda‘s operations.

    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 10:48 pm

    “Historical” in that Sam Berger told them about the threat months before, when leaving office.


  130. freeman Says:

    manslag
    es ist veleicht nur kinderspeil fur dich .


  131. Xisithrus Says:

    We had airport security prior to 9/11 without specificity. Obviously, securiyt measures have been intensified since 9/11.

    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 10:51 pm

    WTF? Your logic is circuitous, You say there was no specificity before 911 and now your saying there was security without specificity


  132. Xisithrus Says:

    Your going in circles Manlsagt and undermining your own argument.


  133. barfly Says:

    “The only flaw was you not reading far enough into the article to know that Scheuer was referring to the Clinton administration when he said the CIA knew they would be left holding the bag over torture.”

    Comment by Manslagt

    Please post the exact section you’re referring to.

    But if it’s “torture occurred before and after 9/11″ you should just apologize now for your lack of reading comp.


  134. Xisithrus Says:

    I need to remind you again that home-schooled kids usually win the national spelling bee.

    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 10:54 pm

    The last home school kid I read of shot people of his own religion


  135. Starve-A-Bush_Feed-A-Beaver Says:

    Again, none of you moonbats has told us what you would have done after you read a PDB that lacked any specificity concerning an impending attack.

    Comment by Manslagt

    Oh, but there were specific warnings. Again, Moussaoui, a known terrorist, was specifically known to be training to fly a 747. French intelligence sent the warning to the FBI about his presence in the United States and they dragged their feet. Coleen Rowley and her fellow investigators tried to get a search warrant to inspect Moussaoui’s laptop before any evidence disappeared and the FBI again dragged their feet. They refused to request authority from the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR) which was directly under the President. At the very least, it was Bush’s responsibility, given the many warnings, to put the FBI on high alert to pay attention to any specific warnings, such as the one about Moussaoui. It was Bush’s responsibility to get everyone working together on this, to implement a coordinated system of high alert among his intelligence services where all potential evidence could immediately be acted upon. Bush did eventually implement such a system, but it was after the horse had left the barn. Moussaoui was such a specific warning. But Bush did nothing and dropped the ball.


  136. barfly Says:

    “I need to remind you again that home-schooled kids usually win the national spelling bee.”

    Comment by Manslagt

    And have horrible socialization skills - just like a certain troll…


  137. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    Spelling bees do not a mind make.


  138. Xisithrus Says:

    There was airport security prior to 9/11 because of a general threat of terrorism.

    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 10:57 pm

    Yet you use that same lack of specificty as a rational for Bush doing nothing.


  139. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    And I doubt your assertion to the spelling bee point. Links please.


  140. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    And I contest your assertion to the spelling bee point. Links please.


  141. freeman Says:

    WHats the point man you want to blame terrorism on a democrat , and you believe that makes treason and war crimes condonable . Who cares, whats done is done , most here i think don’t even like the clintons politics . They’re largely progressives which the clintons are not .


  142. Xisithrus Says:

    You really cannot be this stupid, can you? -MS

    Resorting to ad-hominem and third grade tactics?

    Pfft. I thought you were above that.


  143. Zooey Says:

    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 10:48 pm

    Condi Rice saying it is not proof.


  144. Zooey Says:

    I guess you are that stupid.
    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 11:01 pm

    Here’s the whiner making a personal attack of his own.


  145. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    OY
    http://www.worldnetdaily.com/ news/ article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=15380

    “Indeed, it may not be long. Although home schoolers comprise just two percent of the school-age population, said Farris, at the outset of this year’s contest 27 out of 248 contestants were home-schooled children — or eleven percent. That figure is up from just under ten percent in 1999.”

    BWAHAHAHA
    10.8 percent and that is your proof?
    Manshiit said:
    ” I need to remind you again that home-schooled kids usually win the national spelling bee.”


  146. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    “usually win the national spelling bee.”

    Do you know what “usually” means?


  147. Xisithrus Says:

    “Yet you use that same lack of specificty as a rational for Bush doing nothing.”

    You post Richard Clarkes rational, about no specificity as to an attack and why Bush did not raise airport security, then you say that there was Airport security because of a ‘general’ threat, which means un specific.\ threat.

    You cant have it both ways Manslagt.


  148. Brain From Planet Arous Says:

    That’s an odd allegation. If it were true, the evangelical population would not be growing so rapidly.

    Comment by Manslagt — January 3, 2008 @ 9:18 pm

    Sex and Procreation are two different functions to Evangelicals and Fundies. With all the gay sex going on with Religious types, sounds like a Freudian nightmare. In the old days, Fundies would screw around all week, and then go to confession on Saturdays. Besides, what statistics do you have to prove your claim of growing Fundie population?

    One other question…..Why did/do Fundies and Religious types torture Witches, Woman, Pagans, and other Non-Linear Lifestyles?

    Look, here’s the lowdown. Progressives can tolerate Fundies as long as they do not initiate into law their beliefs. Progressives should in turn be the same toward Fundies. Live and Let Live.


  149. Starve-A-Bush_Feed-A-Beaver Says:

    And they knew he was going to hijack a plane and fly it into the WTC or Pentagon?

    Comment by Manslagt

    The answer is yes. Questioning Moussaoui about his reasons for wanting to fly 747s, examining his laptop and uncovering his ties to Al Qaeda could have led to the determination that Al Qaeda’s specific type of attack could have involved hijacking planes. Also, as mentioned in my previous post, there were known plans of Al Qaeda to hijack planes and crash them, inclusing crashing into Langley. At least, the Bush Administration could have alerted the airlines and even placed armed personnel on the aircraft. Even one trained security guard with a baseball bat could have stopped 3 hijackers with box cutters.


  150. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    “Sounds as if the presidential initiates the writing of a PDB.”

    NO it sounds like to me, they take notes on the STUPIDITY of his “questions” and go back to their offices to gaffaw and slap their knees.
    Mctraitorlovin