Impeachment Time?

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Impeachment Time?

source -"Butler Crittenden, Ph.D." <butlerc@pacbell.net>
 via jclancy@smartchat.net.au

Yesterday Geo. Jr. said, "Had I known that the  enemy was going to use
airplanes to kill on that fateful morning, I would have done everything
in my power to protect the American people." Is this like  Clinton
saying he did "not have sex with that woman in the White  House," where
Clinton was playing word games and hoped he could get away with it?
Notice that Jr. did NOT say he was unaware of any  hijacking plans.
Only that he didn't know that the planes would be turned into deadly
missiles.

This scenario is not so far-fetched, as yesterday the news was that
"President Bush was expected to sign detailed plans for a worldwide war
against al-Qaida two days before Sept. 11 but did not have the chance
before the terrorist attacks in New York and  Washington, U.S. and
foreign sources told NBC News." The story below shows that the
government was aware of al-Qaida's wish to use an airliner to dive-bomb
the Pentagon at least as early as September  1999. Yet another news
report states: "Last week, the FBI  acknowledged the existence of a
memo written last summer in which an agent in its Phoenix, Arizona,
office urged his superiors to investigate Middle Eastern men who had
enrolled at American flight schools and who might be connected to bin
Laden."
http://www.iht.com/articles/58146.html</A>

We know from a couple of days ago that Jr. was briefed in early
August, and he's fiercely resisting release of exactly what he was
told at  that time. We also know that certain high-profile people were
told not to  fly on 9/11, including George Schultz and, if I recall
correctly, Willy  Brown (SF's mayor).

In the last few days it has come out  that Senator Diane Feinstein "
said she made repeated attempts in the months leading up  to Sept. 11
to contact the White House to push a plan to  restructure the nation's
counterterrorism and homeland defense programs.  Feinstein said that
just before the attacks, she was told by a  White House official that
it might take six months before he was able to  review her
suggestions."(See article and URL below.)

While it is hard to say who knew what and when, it  is not mere Monday-
morning quarterbacking to say that the  present administration is
guilty of gross negligence and should be  impeached. Clinton's lying
was the basis for impeachment, and we now  know that Jr. was lying
through his teeth when he said on 9/11  and after, so many timesand so
many ways, that he had no prior knowledge of  an impending attack. If
he didn't, then he's too stupid and  incompetent to be President, and
if he did, which now appears to be the case,  he's earned an
impeachment trial for lying about what he  knew.

Let us all remember that prior to 9/11 Jr. was  being referred to as >a
"lame duck" President, perhaps the earliest in  any administration to
earn this sobriquet. He was described as bored,  frustrated, and
wishing he could just stay at his ranch in  Crawford, Texas. He hadn't
traveled much, and was lamented and laughed at in  Europe and much of
the rest of the world. He was (and still  is) trashing the environment,
reversing sound policies, mishandling  the economy, and behaving in a
boorish and petulant manner --  just what you'd expect from a silver-
spoon inheritor of the  Presidency, who had to steal the election to
even get in the White House.  Just what you'd expect when the fix was
in and the winner was  uneducated and unfit to play the role.

Of course there is little we can do now, other than  join ranks and
oppose the whole RumpUglican agenda. And perhaps  join the chorus
asking Jr. (and Dick C.) to step down or face  impeachment. Ted Pollard
and I launched an impeachment drive against  George Sr.for his role in
the "Gulf War," which was also  called for by Rep. Henry Gonzalez of
San Antonio, Texas. The time has  come to see what can be done to oust
Jr. and  Cheney. 

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=/ap/20020517/ap_on_go_pr_wh/attacks_1999_warning_printer=1">http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story u=/ap/20020517/ap_on_go_pr_wh/attacks_1999_warning_printer=1

Warning of Attacks Two Years Before Sept 11 WTC Events

AP via yahoo - Fri May 17, 2002

by JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - Exactly two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, a
federal report warned the executive branch that Osama bin Laden's
terrorists might hijack an airliner and dive bomb it into the
Pentagon or other government building.

"Suicide bomber(s) belonging to al-Qaida's Martyrdom Battalion could
crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives (C-4 and semtex)
into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA), or the White House," the September 1999 report said.

The report, entitled the "Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who
Becomes a Terrorist and Why?," described the suicide hijacking as one
of several possible retribution attacks al-Qaida might seek for the
1998 U.S. airstrike against bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan.

The report noted that an al-Qaida-linked terrorist first arrested in
the  Philippines in 1995 and later convicted in the 1993 World Trade
Center bombing  had suggested such a suicide jetliner mission.

"Ramzi Yousef had planned to do this against the CIA headquarters,"
author Rex Hudson wrote in a report prepared for the National
Intelligence Council and shared with other federal agencies.

The intelligence council is attached to the CIA and is made up of a
dozen  senior intelligence officers who assist the U.S. intelligence
community in  analysis of threats and priorities. The report contrasts
with Bush administration officials' assertions that none  in government
had imagined an attack like Sept. 11 before that time.

"I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would
take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take
another one and slam it into the Pentagon; that they would try to use
an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile," national
security adviser Condoleezza Rice said Thursday.

The report was written by the Federal Research Division, an arm of
the Library of Congress that provides research for various federal
agencies under contracts.

The report was based solely on open-source information that the federal
researchers gathered about the likely threats of terrorists, according
to Robert L. Worden, the division's chief he federal research division.

"This information was out there, certainly to those who study the in-
depth  subject of terrorism and al-Qaida," Worden said."We knew it was
an insightful report," he said. "Then after Sept. 11 we said,  'My
gosh, that (suicide hijacking) was in there.'"

Asked about the report at his daily press briefing, White House
spokesman Ari  Fleischer described it as a psychological, sociological
evaluation of  terrorism. "I don't think it's a surprise to anybody
that terrorists think in evil  ways," he said.<"It is not a piece of
intelligence information suggesting that we had  information about a
specific plan." 
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SF Chronicle - SFGate.com - May 18, 2002
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/05/18/MN122330.DTL

REBUKE FROM FEINSTEIN

Under unusually harsh questioning by reporters, Fleischer pointed the
finger at Democrats, singling out comments made by Feinstein on CNN's
"Larry King Show" in July.

Feinstein told King that "intelligence staff have told me that there is
a  major probability of a terrorist incident within the next three
months." "Clearly," Fleischer told reporters Friday in the White House
briefing room, "if Sen. Feinstein, a Democrat on the Intelligence
Committee, was aware of  this, the question arises, what did the
Democrats know and why weren't they  talking to each other?" Feinstein
issued a strong rebuke to Fleischer, saying her information was  based
on generic briefings that "had given me a sense of foreboding for some
time."

"I had no specific data leading to a possible attack," she said.

Feinstein went on to chastise Fleischer for his tone, saying that "in
the  wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, the issue is too important to our
nation to engage  in the kind of politics Mr. Fleischer is practicing."
Feinstein said she made repeated attempts in the months leading up to
Sept.  11 to contact the White House to push a plan to restructure the
nation's  counterterrorism and homeland defense programs. Feinstein
said that just before  the attacks, she was told by a White House
official that it might take six months before he was able to review her
suggestions. 

"I did not believe we had six months to wait," she said.

Pelosi, who has had hundreds of top-secret briefings as the leading
Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said that over a span of
many years, she had probably received much of the information that had
been given to Bush. But, Pelosi said, there was no mention of
hijackings in her briefings during that first week in August. Even if
the hijacking references in Bush's report were not based on new
information but on an "analytic" summary, as the White House has
suggested, "something happened to raise the level of importance of
hijackings, and it is important to find out what," Pelosi said.


 
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