Wednesday, December 12, 2001
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Wednesday, December 12, 2001 |
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Clinton shares blame for terrorism According to press reports, Bill Clinton confided to friends on Sept. 14, 2001, that he envies G.W. Bush's good fortune in having the Sept. 11 attacks occur during his presidency, although he (Clinton) believes he could do a better job of managing this "defining moment." He also implied in a speech at Georgetown University that the U.S. may have been experiencing some sort of payback from the attacks. These are strange comments from a former president (or co-president) who did much to indirectly aid and abet terrorists and terrorism through the following actions: Pardons for convicted and suspect terrorists: Release from federal detention in the early 1990s (along with common criminals) of persons from El Salvador and Honduras who were suspected of committing terrorists acts against those governments. Commutation of sentences for 11 convicted Puerto Rican FALN members in 1999, possibly to help Hillary's senatorial election bid. Last minute 2001 pardon for Susan Rosenberg, former Weather Underground member who had a role in the 1981 armed robbery in Nyack, N.J., of a Brink's truck in which two policemen were killed. Rosenberg had been captured assisting in the unloading of 780 pounds of dynamite and 14 weapons. Shifting emphasis from foreign to domestic terrorism: So that the federal government would not be charged with "racial profiling," government agencies were ordered to shift emphasis from foreign terrorist activities, particularly those involving "persons of color," to domestic activities of predominately white militants. This new agenda resulted in an abandonment of reporting on radical Islamic organizations. Incompetence and calculated laxity in enforcement of immigration laws: The 1993 WTC bombers entered the U.S. on "student" visas without security checks. Of the 19 terrorists responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks, 15 were in the U.S. with expired visas. After NATO intervention in Kosovo, about 20,000 Kosovars, many with suspected drug and terrorist connections, were allowed to immigrate without background investigations. Political influence on terrorist activities: Irreconcilable laws and edicts made it simultaneously permissible to overlook illegal and terrorist activities by those requesting visas while forbidding government security organizations, the FBI and CIA, to utilize such individuals as informants. The FBI was instructed not to recruit informants in communities of "protected minorities," even though some members were believed to have connections to drugs and terrorism. At least one radical group member allied with bin Laden claimed responsibility for OKC, yet these leads were dropped. Clinton preferred that "angry white males" Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols be blamed for OKC, as they represented the "vast right (white)-wing conspiracy." When Sudan offered up bin Laden in 1995, Clinton probably didn't want to confront the racially sensitive problem of prosecuting him. Unresponsiveness to previous terrorist attacks: After the 1993 attack on the WTC that killed six Americans and injured many others, Clinton warned about "overreacting." Nothing was done in retaliation for the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers military residence in Saudi Arabia wherein 16 servicemen were killed. He responded with an ineffective missile attack when the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed in 1998 costing 263 lives. He did nothing when the USS Cole was bombed in 2000. Concerned citizens should contact the U.S. Attorney General and request an investigation of the Clinton's role in creating a situation rife for foreign terrorist activity. William Fielder Peachtree City
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