This is insane! It was the Clinton Administration who shut down "Able Danger" a project that identified Atta as being a suspect long before 9-11, but the Clinton Administration shut this program down! Curt Weldon made a big stick about it and the Clinton camp threw the entire slime machine on Weldon’s election - he lost and Able Danger, the CIA’s tool to root out terrorism died.

At a time when many Democrats are faulting the CIA for its aggressive interrogation practices and a new Hollywood film is attacking the agency for transferring terrorism suspects to shadowy regimes, Senator Clinton is going against the grain by critiquing the CIA for shying away from the hands-on overseas work needed to keep America safe.

"Combating terrorism around the world will require better intelligence and a clandestine service that is out on the street, not sitting behind desks," Mrs. Clinton writes in a summary of her foreign policy views to be published in the forthcoming issue of Foreign Affairs. "As president, I will work to restore morale in our intelligence community, increase the number of agents and analysts proficient in Arabic and other key languages, and raise the profile and status of intelligence analysis."

Mrs. Clinton’s 17-page essay, which is part of a series of policy statements from Democratic presidential candidates, also denounces torture and some of the Bush administration’s policies on handling suspected Al Qaeda operatives. "As we counsel liberty and justice for all, we cannot support torture and the indefinite detention of individuals we have declared to be beyond the law," she writes.

However, her complaint about CIA agents "sitting behind desks" seems to put her in the company of conservatives who have grumbled since President Clinton was in office that Langley has become too cautious and paralyzed by debates over limits to the agency’s legal authority.

Under a 2005 law, the National Clandestine Service includes both intelligence gatherers and those who carry out the CIA’s covert operations. However, in a conference call with reporters, a foreign policy adviser to Mrs. Clinton said her criticism was directed at the intelligence-seeking part of the equation. "I think what Senator Clinton is talking about in this piece is just that we need to deploy all the tools that we can to deal more effectively with the terrorist threat that we face in Afghanistan, and that includes to empower our intelligence agency to act effectively and to provide the best intelligence they can," the adviser, Lee Feinstein, said in response to a question from The New York Sun. "It is beyond question that the U.S. government seeks better and more information about our enemy, and one of the ways you can get that better information is to have people on the ground providing that information back to the people who will be setting policy."

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With news that she’s got Sandy Berger advising her, I must wonder if she’s taken to hiding her secrets in her pantyhose to make sure they don’t wind up in his socks.

Of course, why would Hillary want to be advised by a man who illegally stole and destroyed national security secrets unless, of course, the secrets he stole were designed to hide her husband’s mistakes? Quite a reward for loyal service.

Sandy Berger, who stole highly classified terrorism documents from the National Archives, destroyed them and lied to investigators, is now an adviser to presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. Berger, who was fired from John Kerry’s presidential campaign when the scandal broke in 2004, has assumed a similar role in Clinton’s campaign, even though his security clearance has been suspended until September 2008. This is raising eyebrows even among Clinton’s admirers. “It shows poor judgment and a lack of regard for Berger’s serious misdeeds,” said law professor Jonathan Adler of Case Western Reserve University, who nonetheless called Clinton “by far the most impressive candidate in the Democratic field.”

Source: Redstate

Democrats tell Americans they were safer under President Clinton than they have been under President Bush. The record, however, shows that the Clinton years coincided with al Qaeda’s golden age.

Whether as a result of wrongheaded policies, the lack of policy or simple carelessness, William Jefferson Clinton passively presided over more successful terrorist attacks against America than any other President in the history of the Republic. And the attacks were carried out with impunity; President Clinton failed to order effective reprisals. The following is a list of the terrorist attacks planned and/or executed during the Clinton years:

• February 26, 1993, attack on the World Trade Center: 6 deaths and 1,042 injured
• April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing: 168 deaths and over 800 injured
• June 25, 1996, Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia: 20 deaths and 372 injured
• August 7, 1998, attacks on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania: 12 U.S. deaths out of a total of 223 deaths; 12 U.S. injured out of a total of over 4,000 injured
• October 12, 2000, attack on the USS Cole in Yemen: 17 deaths; 39 injured
• September 11, 2001, attacks in New York and Washington (occurred during Bush presidency but planned during Clinton administration): 2,975 deaths and 24 missing.

Except for the Oklahoma City bombing, all these terrorist attacks were the work of al Qaeda. Regarding 9/11, it is well established that al Qaeda planned, rehearsed and financed these attacks while Clinton was in office. Therefore, 9/11 was President Clinton’s final national security failure.

Despite eight years of al Qaeda attacks, the Clinton administration was so clueless about al Qaeda that it was unable to provide the incoming Bush administration with material intelligence on al Qaeda activities. During the transition, President Clinton’s focus was on pardons while his staffers were concerned with removing the letter "W" from the keyboards of the White House computers. So oblivious were Democrats to the imminence of al Qaeda attacks that their focus was on juvenile pranks.

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Why am I not shocked…

Hillary Clinton likes to tell the Democrats that she is the candidate with more experience - but that experience is Bill Clinton and his band of Senior Officials from his presidency. Madeleine Albright, U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and disgraced national-security advisor Sandy "I’ve got classified documents in my underwear" Berger.

Berger’s crime isn’t given justice here.  It wasn’t just taking classified information without clearance, it was taking and destroying classified national security documents related to the Clinton administration’s anti-terror efforts immediately before Bill Clinton’s testimony before the 9/11 commission.  A factoid that has, strangely, been completely ignored by the 9/11 conspiracy lunatics on the left.

Bill Clinton is on the road promoting his latest book, the oddly titled, "Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World." We already know how Bill Clinton changed the world. The former president might as well be on a campaign tour. Bill Clinton doesn’t need to sell books. He needs to get Hillary Clinton elected president.

The Clintons are itching to get back to the White House. Just as Hillary hitched her political wagons to her philandering husband in 1992, it’s payback time. It’s Hillary’s turn.

Bill Clinton has said in interviews that his wife, once she is sworn in as president, will have the benefit of having the "first gentleman" by her side for advice. In other words, it’s going to be another co-presidency, just as the first Clinton administration was from 1993-2001.

On the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, let’s pause to think about what another Clinton presidency would mean for our national security. We don’t have to look too far back. The road to 9/11 is well documented. Bill Clinton’s indifference and incompetence as president set the stage for the devastating attack on U.S. soil.

The murder of 3,000 Americans six years ago was the culmination of an eight-year campaign against the United States by Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Attack after attack went unanswered by Bill Clinton until they escalated to the horrific events of 9/11. While the assault by Muslim fanatics came nine months into George W. Bush’s presidency, it was planned, rehearsed, financed and set into motion while Bill and Hillary Clinton occupied the White House.

The attacks of 9/11 were successful because our enemies sensed weakness in Clinton (and by extension, the United States). They were successful because Clinton was more interested in chasing a young intern around the Oval Office than protecting the United States. They were successful because Clinton failed to control illegal immigration, allowing terrorists to enter. Clinton defanged the CIA and FBI during his tenure in office. The attacks succeeded because the U.S. military rusted under an oblivious Democrat who put his faith in the United Nations to protect Americans.

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Source: Newsbusters

Bill Clinton’s appearance on Wednesday’s "Larry King Live" gave new life to the old nickname for CNN as the "Clinton News Network." Host Larry King fawned over Clinton during the 40-minute interview, asking the impeached former president questions on wide range of topics. King asked Clinton if Osama bin Laden was ever going to caught. After Clinton gave the standard Democrat line that not enough resources are being sent to Afghanistan in the hunt for the al Qaeda leader, King added, "You almost got him." Clinton answered affirmatively, and added that he "never had a chance to deploy large numbers of troops to Afghanistan."

During the first half-hour of the interview, King asked Clinton about Hillary and the criticism she has received over the years; the former president’s latest book, "Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World;" his involvement in charitable causes; and forwarded two e-mail questions from viewers on his involvement in his wife’s presidential campaign and how he might help select her running mate. Clinton also answered what he thought of Fred Thompson and the rest of the Republican presidential field; and the upcoming report on Iraq from General Petraeus.

The first topic King asked about, however, set the tone for the entire interview. King asked Clinton about the recent sex scandal involving Senator Larry Craig. "Did you get any sense of satisfaction, since he [Craig] was such a critic of yours during the impeachment thing, and using terms very demeaning about you? Clinton answered in the negative, and explained, "Because when it was going on, I knew that, you know, a lot of them were outed for hypocrisy long before this. And everybody knew that — every serious student of the Constitution — knew that the whole thing was bogus, and that they were just jumping on a terrible personal mistake I made."

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From Hillary Clinton Nude

Last September, to mark the fifth anniversary of the events of September 11, 2001 the ABC television network presented a five hour miniseries, “The Path To 9/11,” a docudrama presenting in dramatized form the series of events that culminated in 9/11. A key feature of this series was an unflattering portrayal of how two presidential administrations responded to the growing threat from Al-Qaeda. The two presidential regimes involved the current president, George W. Bush, and his predecessor, William Jefferson Clinton.

In my book, “Hillary Clinton Nude,” I describe the efforts made by former President Bill Clinton to pressure ABC into canceling broadcast of “The Path To 9/11,” even though he had not even seen the series. Clearly, Bill Clinton was concerned that any televised interpretation of how he dealt with Al-Qaeda as president would harm Hillary Clinton’s pending presidential campaign. Interestingly, at the time of this miniseries being broadcast, Hillaryland was beginning to circulate false rumors, suggesting Hillary Clinton loved being in the Senate so much, she was not really interested in running for president.

With the sixth anniversary of 9/11 approaching, the Los Angeles Times have published a most disturbing story. One year after “The Path To 9/11″ was broadcast, it has yet to be released on DVD. ABC has not even hinted at a DVD release date, despite the original broadcast drawing an impressive audience of 25 million viewers. The LA Times refers to the miniseries writer, Cyrus Nowrasteh, who believes that, “Powerful forces are out to protect Bill Clinton’s presidential legacy and shield Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton from any potential collateral damage in her bid for the White House.” Nowrasteh told the Times that he had heard from ABC management, “If Hillary weren’t running for president, this wouldn’t be a problem.”

Censoring information, and preventing the American people from forming their own independent judgement on its validity, is odious in any context. When such suppression is engineered in the name of attaining political power, it amounts to nothing more than the “Path To American Dictatorship.”

From Hillary Clinton Nude

Source: The Strata-Sphere

I am sure many have forgotten about Able Danger (see here for my many posts on the mater), a prototype data mining intelligence program that was begun in 1998 by the NSA and folks in the Pentagon to see if data mining technology, applied to publically available data sets, could help identify terrorists. The claim, never really proved, was the Able Danger program had identified the 9-11 highackers prior to 9-11 and no one paid attention because it was a prototype evaluation program, not a fully operational capability the Intelligence Community had confidence in.

One of the more infuriating aspects of the entire story was the fact that our intelligence tools were shut down because the test program for this technology unearthed possibly incriminating information about the Clintons and their administration. One of the many posts I have on this aspect of the story is here. I am dredging up this old news because it probably plays into some of the current news involving the Clintons and their ties to Chinese spies (i.e., illustrates the nexus of Clinton greed and Clinton naiveté’). This is because the Able Danger program was rapidly (and possibly illegally) shut down because its sister technology demonstration program, investigating US connections to Chinese technology, came up with high level names.

It was this unfortunate and accidental discovery connecting China’s efforts to acquire our technology with high ranking Clinton administration officials that triggered a complete shutdown of the data mining efforts against al-Qeada. The fear of this technology was so prevelant someone decided chasing terrorists was less important than covering someone’s butt. We never learned who was connected to the Chinese spies (outside Condi Rice, who would not be someone the Clinton administration would work so hard to cover for).

The reason I bring this up is to echo what Mac Ranger is saying about the Clintons and the myriad of China scandals that dogged their administration, and where never really investigated.

While the MSM continues to largely ignore the reemerging ‘China Gate scandal’ that I believe will either fatally wound or will outright derail her candidacy, it’s really time to call Hillary Clinton in her constant denials of culpability.

The word is very different from the loose and wild days of the Clinton administration. We take things much more seriously since 9-11, since we now appreciate how what seems to be trivial can have terrible consequences. The problems the Clintons had with Chinese agents spreading large amounts of money around dogged them constantly (and Al Gore and is fundraiser at a Temple known for frugality and rejection of personal gain). Will the pliant MSM cover for the Clintons again? Honestly I doubt it. They did their job once and it cost them their reputation and respect of the country. I doubt they see any reason to do it again.

Source: The Strata-Sphere

Source: Gateway Pundit

World Net Daily is reporting today on the links between Norman Hsu and Bernard L. Schwartz, the well known China missile trader:

A shady Chinese megadonor to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has close ties to an aerospace mogul accused of placing his business interests before national security by sharing missile secrets with Beijing during the Clinton administration.

 Before his forced resignation last week, Norman Yuan Yuen Hsu (pictured with Hillary) sat on the board of trustees of the liberal New School university in New York with former Loral Corp. head Bernard L. Schwartz, who was allowed to transfer restricted satellite and missile technology to a People’s Liberation Army front after contributing a record amount of cash to President Clinton’s 1996 campaign.

Last November, Schwartz and Hsu chaired a New School banquet at the Mandarin Oriental in New York which featured Sen. Clinton as keynote speaker. Clinton steered a $1 million federal grant to the college.

More recently, Schwartz and Hsu (pronounced shoo) appeared together at the New York Yacht Club for Democratic Rep. Patrick Kennedy’s 40th birthday bash…

All told, 22 Democrat donors were convicted in the Chinagate probe, which the Justice Department officially closed a few years ago.

Hat Tip Cornhusker

Loral’s Bernard Schwartz with President Clinton during a June 1997 Democratic fund-raiser in Washington. (AP File Photo)

Woah!… Even Far-Left Daily Kos is reporting this!
Golem666 at Daily Kos has this on Norman Hsu and Bernard L. Shwartz:

Bernard L. Schwartz, who worked for the chinese shell company that the clintons gave the ballisitc missle technology to after bill clintons re-election put Norman Hsu on the Board of Trustees of the New School in N.Y

hillary clinton ear-marked 750,000 dollars to the new school recently as a pork barrel project.

Bernard L. Schwartz taught the Communist Chinese party how to build ICBM’s which could make it out of the lower atmosphere.

this was one of the main reasons that china was able to destroy a satellite in space this year, touching of fears of a new arms race in space.

because of the technology that the clinton’s gave to Bernard L. Schwartz, who worked with china.

this is all related…

bernard schwarz and norman hsu are both on the board of this school and they work together on several projects outside of the school.

connect the dots, a bankrupt chinese national wanted on a felony of fraud, connected to this individual who gave away national security secrets, working with the chinese government. Suddenly comes into huge wealth and starts donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to the leading democratic nominee for president. it is no accident. Or is it?

since nobody as far as i can tell so far has linked these events, we will have to see how this is played out and what it means.

Edit: it turns out that Norman Hsu has known connections to the chinese nationals who were involved in the clinton scandal of 96. He also has been found by the NY and LA times to have several shell companys that do not exist. On top of this. He had dealings with the Chinese mafia. read below for my update.

MORE DONOR PROBLEMS…
An appellate court is set to hear arguments in Paul vs. Clinton case this week.

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