From the National Ledger:
Did defense intelligence officials identify ringleader Mohammed Atta and three other hijackers as al Qaeda members more than a year before 09/11? That’s what Lee Hamilton, co-chair of the now disbanded 09/11 Commission, wants to know.
When the 09/11 Commission was reviewing government mistakes that led to the successful attacks of 09/11, the alleged defense intelligence surveillance of Atta and his al Qaeda cell was not even on its radar screen. "Had we learned of it obviously it would’ve been a major focus of our investigation," Hamilton, a former Democratic congressman from Indiana told the press.
The missing information, vital to the Commission’s investigation, may be among the secret documents Clinton national security adviser Sandy Berger was busily stuffing in his pants and socks. Some of those documents supposedly involve Ali Mohammed, an Egyptian al Qaeda member with strange links to the CIA and FBI and the al Qaeda operations against the World Trade Center in both 1993 and 2001. At the moment, like Berger’s stuffed papers, Ali Mohammed is missing, from the prison system no less.
And whom is Berger trying to protect: the secret defense intelligence surveillance unit? More likely, Berger wants to hide information about the intrusion of Clinton administration lawyers that prevented the defense intelligence unit from turning their information over to the FBI. After all, among the problems the 09/11 Commission cited was a lack of coordination across intelligence agencies.
We are at war! Our troops are dying on the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan. Half our country no longer understands what the war against terror is about. The information vital to understanding our vulnerabilities is stuffed into the pants of a corpulent national security adviser more concerned with protecting the reputation of his administration than the national security. The Democrats have been relentless critiques of the war, and, yet, it now appears that they were responsible for making us vulnerable to a terrorist cell that was in the cross hairs of a special operations unit in our military.
They were not taken out, not even turned over to the FBI, because the Clinton administration put the liberties of the terrorists above the lives of our countrymen.
To the left it is a game about process, spin, and ultimately power. What are Hillary’s chances to become president if her husband’s administration’s zeal for process resulted in three thousand of our fellow Americans being incinerated?
Our lives remain in jeopardy as the politicization continues.
A grieving mother, Cindy Sheehan who denigrates her son’s sacrifice is now a major part of the spin. Her need to trash the president is so great that she refuses to see that her son died to set people free and to protect America from future attacks. She uses her fallen son’s memory as a weapon against the president, and, in the process, she has become the gold star mother of the left.
During the 09/11 hearings, grandstanding, brominating and spin, not the quest for truth, were the norm. The audience erupted into applause when the president was under fire.
And as President Bush was being assailed, Sandy Berger was stuffing his pants with top-secret documents to likely prevent the American public from learning the truth about the presidency of William Clinton.
The hearings became politicized as did the appearances of 09/11 families across the broad spectrum of TV shows were they could express their feeling that George W. Bush, and not al Qaeda, was responsible for 09/11. Left wing organizations and Mrs. Heinz Kerry were there to make sure that ample funds were available for these people to repeatedly appear on the circuit of TV shows.
Clearly, the 09/11 hearings were not a means to repairing the national security, but to hold President Bush accountable for an attack that now appears his predecessor could have prevented. The release of the Commission’s report as the campaign raged speaks for itself. The omission of the critical materials on the defense intelligence operation against Atta and his fellow terrorists tells us that the Democrats used the Commission to manipulate the outcome of the election, not to get at the truth.
Still the propaganda war swirls around Cindy Sheehan, who is obsessively denigrating her son so as to defame the president.
And where will Cindy Sheehan and the anti-war crowd be if and when we discover that the Clinton administration could have prevented the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan by stopping the 09/11 hijackers? Where will their anger be when they learn that the Clinton administration was so eager to protect the liberties of terrorists that it caused the deaths of thousands of our citizens and set into motion two costly and bloody wars?
Will Cindy Sheehan be cursing William Jefferson Clinton and Sandy Berger? Will the anti-war crowd travel the circuit of TV shows to defame Clinton? Will Clinton’s name draw public derision in the same circles as Bush’s does?
Don’t count on it! Like Judas, the left seeks to betray America, first by selling out this symbol of human freedom, and then by embracing national suicide as the inevitable consequence of its actions.
We let them to do so at our peril.
