The Brier Patch - 9/11: For The Record

03.22.04

9/11: For The Record

Richard Clarke is an idiot. He wants a job in the administration of another idiot who has not been elected, and hopefully never will be.

From CBS News:

"Frankly," he said, "I find it outrageous that the president is running for re-election on the grounds that he's done such great things about terrorism. He ignored it. He ignored terrorism for months, when maybe we could have done something to stop 9/11. Maybe. We'll never know."

Clarke went on to say, "I think he's done a terrible job on the war against terrorism."

Now read the truth (below) from the National Security Adviser.

By Condoleezza Rice
Monday, March 22, 2004; Page A21

The al Qaeda terrorist network posed a threat to the United States for almost a decade before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Throughout that period -- during the eight years of the Clinton administration and the first eight months of the Bush administration prior to Sept. 11 -- the U.S. government worked hard to counter the al Qaeda threat.

During the transition, President-elect Bush's national security team was briefed on the Clinton administration's efforts to deal with al Qaeda. The seriousness of the threat was well understood by the president and his national security principals. In response to my request for a presidential initiative, the counterterrorism team, which we had held over from the Clinton administration, suggested several ideas, some of which had been around since 1998 but had not been adopted. No al Qaeda plan was turned over to the new administration.
We adopted several of these ideas. We committed more funding to counterterrorism and intelligence efforts. We increased efforts to go after al Qaeda's finances. We increased American support for anti-terror activities in Uzbekistan.

We pushed hard to arm the Predator unmanned aerial vehicle so we could target terrorists with greater precision. But the Predator was designed to conduct surveillance, not carry weapons. Arming it presented many technical challenges and required extensive testing. Military and intelligence officials agreed that the armed Predator was simply not ready for deployment before the fall of 2001. In any case, the Predator was not a silver bullet that could have destroyed al Qaeda or stopped Sept. 11.
We also considered a modest spring 2001 increase in funding for the Northern Alliance. At that time, the Northern Alliance was clearly not going to sweep across Afghanistan and dispose of al Qaeda. It had been battered by defeat and held less than 10 percent of the country. Only the addition of American air power, with U.S. special forces and intelligence officers on the ground, allowed the Northern Alliance its historic military advances in late 2001. We folded this idea into our broader strategy of arming tribes throughout Afghanistan to defeat the Taliban.

Let us be clear. Even their most ardent advocates did not contend that these ideas, even taken together, would have destroyed al Qaeda. We judged that the collection of ideas presented to us were insufficient for the strategy President Bush sought. The president wanted more than a laundry list of ideas simply to contain al Qaeda or "roll back" the threat. Once in office, we quickly began crafting a comprehensive new strategy to "eliminate" the al Qaeda network. The president wanted more than occasional, retaliatory cruise missile strikes. He told me he was "tired of swatting flies."

Through the spring and summer of 2001, the national security team developed a strategy to eliminate al Qaeda -- which was expected to take years. Our strategy marshaled all elements of national power to take down the network, not just respond to individual attacks with law enforcement measures. Our plan called for military options to attack al Qaeda and Taliban leadership, ground forces and other targets -- taking the fight to the enemy where he lived. It focused on the crucial link between al Qaeda and the Taliban. We would attempt to compel the Taliban to stop giving al Qaeda sanctuary -- and if it refused, we would have sufficient military options to remove the Taliban regime. The strategy focused on the key role of Pakistan in this effort and the need to get Pakistan to drop its support of the Taliban. This became the first major foreign-policy strategy document of the Bush administration -- not Iraq, not the ABM Treaty, but eliminating al Qaeda.

Before Sept. 11, we closely monitored threats to our nation. President Bush revived the practice of meeting with the director of the CIA every day -- meetings that I attended. And I personally met with George Tenet regularly and frequently reviewed aspects of the counterterror effort.

Through the summer increasing intelligence "chatter" focused almost exclusively on potential attacks overseas. Nonetheless, we asked for any indication of domestic threats and directed our counterterrorism team to coordinate with domestic agencies to adopt protective measures. The FBI and the Federal Aviation Administration alerted airlines, airports and local authorities, warning of potential attacks on Americans.

Despite what some have suggested, we received no intelligence that terrorists were preparing to attack the homeland using airplanes as missiles, though some analysts speculated that terrorists might hijack airplanes to try to free U.S.-held terrorists. The FAA even issued a warning to airlines and aviation security personnel that "the potential for a terrorist operation, such as an airline hijacking to free terrorists incarcerated in the United States, remains a concern."

We now know that the real threat had been in the United States since at least 1999. The plot to attack New York and Washington had been hatching for nearly two years. According to the FBI, by June 2001 16 of the 19 hijackers were already here. Even if we had known exactly where Osama bin Laden was, and the armed Predator had been available to strike him, the Sept. 11 hijackers almost certainly would have carried out their plan. So, too, if the Northern Alliance had somehow managed to topple the Taliban, the Sept. 11 hijackers were here in America -- not in Afghanistan.

President Bush has acted swiftly to unify and streamline our efforts to secure the American homeland. He has transformed the FBI into an agency dedicated to catching terrorists and preventing future attacks. The president and Congress, through the USA Patriot Act, have broken down the legal and bureaucratic walls that prior to Sept. 11 hampered intelligence and law enforcement agencies from collecting and sharing vital threat information. Those who now argue for rolling back the Patriot Act's changes invite us to forget the important lesson we learned on Sept. 11.

In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, the president, like all Americans, wanted to know who was responsible. It would have been irresponsible not to ask a question about all possible links, including to Iraq -- a nation that had supported terrorism and had tried to kill a former president. Once advised that there was no evidence that Iraq was responsible for Sept. 11, the president told his National Security Council on Sept. 17 that Iraq was not on the agenda and that the initial U.S. response to Sept. 11 would be to target al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Because of President Bush's vision and leadership, our nation is safer. We have won battles in the war on terror, but the war is far from over. However long it takes, this great nation will prevail.

The writer is the national security adviser.

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Recently President Bush said, “…we're helping former Soviet states find productive employment for former weapons scientists. Bush refers to Defense Enterprise Fund (DEF) is a venture capital fund financed by the US Congress to convert former Russian producers of weapons of mass destruction.

And here is how DEF is doing. According to the Department of Defense Audit, DEF spent half of its grant on itself, which is twenty five times the industry average. As far as DEF’s investment portfolio of $30M, $20M disappeared from it under very suspicious circumstances.

DEF was closed as of December 31, 2003, its entire $67M grant lost, and nobody was punished. That is, except the whistleblower who was punished viciously. Bush knows that DEF is dead, but takes credit anyway. Relevant documents are here: http://nunn-lugar.com/def/

Posted by: Matthew Maly at March 22, 2004 02:02 PM

He's acting like a pouty child who wasn't raised right.

If his friends don't want to play the game HIS way, they are no longer his friends.

What an ass.

Posted by: Key at March 23, 2004 10:09 AM

KERRY ,BUSH,ROCKEFELLER ARE MEMBERS OF THE ILLUMINIST SATANIC SECRET SOCIETY, SKULL & BONES.Conservatives... view the Presidential campaign of George W. Bush of Texas as saving this country from the ravages of that New World Order President, Clinton.They do not realize that George W. Bush is just as Illuminist and just as committed to the New World Order![ Quote: http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1314.cf m ]Skull & Bones: The Secret Society That Unites John Kerry and President Bush A little-known fact unites Democratic frontrunner John Kerry and President Bush: they are both members of Yale's secret society Skull and Bones. We speak with the author of 'Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power' that reveals details about the secret society and its members. [ Quote: http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0 401/S00143.htm ] U.S. president George W. Bush, his father and grandfather are proven initiates of this multi-generational occult lodge. George W. was tapped (initiated) in 1968 at the group's Yale University HQ, a mausoleum known as 'the tomb'. Adolf Hitler was also obsessed with the occult, in his case the Thule Society which was closely connected to German Theosophists. The jolly roger, skull and cross bones, der Todtenkopf was an emblem of Hitler's SS. If the Nazis' occult lodges had been exposed and shut down, not treated as a taboo, millions of lives could have been saved. The second world war need never have happened. Unless you want this occult order running a totalitarian West's Third World War and their 'New World Order' - please - do your bit to expose the George W. Bush and the bonesmen. [ http://www.bilderberg.org/skulbone.htm ] Sen. John F. Kerry expounds on many issues in his presidential campaign, but he's completely silent on one topic: his membership in Skull and Bones, Yale's infamous secret society. John Kerry has absolutely nothing to say on that subject. Sorry,' said Kerry spokeswoman Kelley Benander. [ Quote: http://www.propagandamatrix.com/archive_ skull_and_bones.html ] Can this society/satanic administration on earth control next things:make food and drug/medicin production unhealthy,using unhealthy chemicals,so that people are not healthy/stopping criticism and healthy things,like vitamins and information about those things,which makes oney to medical companies(and serves satanistic evil ideas?)-start wars(f.ex.9/11,etc.)-make 2 opposite sides fight(nazis/communists,nazis/coloured,islam/western world,football-hooliganism,(Supported both Israel/Palestinians,in order to create war/conlicts there,which later makes whole Islamic world(WITH CATHOLICS) attack against Jews and Christians,9/11 to make western world against “muslim-terrorism”(even BinLaden-family business has been connected Bush (Skull and Bones?) )etc. (F.EX. ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE IS NOT EXISTING:trees and plants make more CO2 if needed,even if polar areas melt,it doesn´t raise surface of seas,and earth has had much more hot long lasting periods without problems- so all this environmental catastrophy panic is caused only to make people worried and in order to create a chaos/anarchy(creating also criminals with the help of wrong kind of policework,unjustice and psychiatry?) and then war/police-state or something like this etc,etc.)-business(Making people slaves,instead of middle-class):f.ex. car industry makes cars lasting only few years(and repairing costs a lot),but even at 60`s some car companies made cars which were still good after 20 years use['world would use electric-cars,if 'Dallas-oil companies would profit more with it'?]- psychiatry,using “middle-age methods[there is lots of documents about 2 billion USD psychiatric drug-business,making people only worse,and f.ex. causing violence and (most of “cases could be treated only by changing their environment)[sources:based on writers memory:CitizensCommission on HumanRights(CCHR)and Radical perspectives in psychology(Nick Heather)] -governments omitting to create people enough jobs and homes,handle illiteracy,etc…(evil=good?). Comment:Skulls and Bones(or satanic administration described next),may have caused all problems in USA(or whole world) today(By the way,we don´t need to believe existence of Satan,but we can use his name here as a god of those people who believe to him,and do things in order to serve and worship him).They have a connection to war industry,creating war(satanism=philosophy of evilness.Evil=good?)?It´s written that every problem there is in USA today are caused by changes which are made to original US constitution[Source:Recall from `Integrity and Honesty` booklet - based on the works of L. Ron Hubbard.]- and those guys may have caused them,f.ex. there should not be income tax at all(taxation could be f.ex in prices only,etc.).Are those guys actually acting in order to destroy middle-class,which is also goal of nazism and communism,which both were supported by those guys(look links above).Rebecca Brown,published by www.Chickcomics.com :”… the lower … members of this conspiracy … don't know about the occult connection until they reach the higher levels (according to Alberto). I became so powerful in my craft of evil that the masters of the cult, …and ultimately my bosses, feared me more than what they hoped I would destroy. … I would also like to publicly denounce the Nazi-Vatican plan to kill Christians, Jews, and to help … expose the truth in this matter... I have set up and maintained false churches, occult groups, the West German Nazi Party, and much, much more …” [ http://www.monsterwax.com/chicktapes2.ht ml#brown ] [Bernhard Schreiber:Men Behind Hitler]Rebecca Brown; He Came To Set The Captives Free : Elaine(High Witch of USA) : I also made a number of trips to other countries. I have been to Mecca, Israel, Egypt, also the Vatican in Rome to meet the Pope. All of my trips were for the purpose of coordinating Satan's programs with satanists in other lands...The Pope knew very well who I was. We worked closely both with the Catholics (especially the Jesuits) [ http://www.monsterwax.com/chicktapes3.ht ml#brown ] George Bush's father as well as George Bush were and are members of Skull & Bones. A major key figure in Skull & Bones was William Averall Harriman. Pamela Harriman supplied the funds to elect Bill Clinton to office. Harriman was THE major backer of the Democratic Party for over 50 years. Major players in Skull & Bones have been linked to the financing of both world wars and the creation of many think-tanks and Universities in this country. Bush's father was a major contributor to the Hitler Project as well as the build-up of the Soviet Union. Thus, leading to the inevidable World Wars and the eventual set-up of the United Nations in America. [ quote: http://www.freedomdomain.com/skullbones. html ] U.S. president George W. Bush, his father and grandfather are proven initiates of this multi- generational occult lodge. George W. was tapped (initiated) in 1968 at the group's Yale University HQ, a mausoleum known as 'the tomb'. Adolf Hitler was also obsessed with the occult, in his case the Thule Society which was closely connected to German Theosophists. The jolly roger, skull and cross bones, der Todtenkopf was an emblem of Hitler's SS. If the Nazis' occult lodges had been exposed and shut down, not treated as a taboo, millions of lives could have been saved. The second world war need never have happened. Unless you want this occult order running a totalitarian West's Third World War and their 'New World Order' - please - do your bit to expose the George W. Bush and the bonesmen. [ http://www.bilderberg.org/skulbone.htm ] Sen. John F. Kerry expounds on many issues in his presidential campaign, but he's completely silent on one topic: his membership in Skull and Bones, Yale's infamous secret society. John Kerry has absolutely nothing to say on that subject. Sorry,' said Kerry spokeswoman Kelley Benander. [ Quote: http://www.propagandamatrix.com/archive_ skull_and_bones.html ]Same establishment behind vote counting fraud?: …control over the electoral process as told by Mae Brussell and the suppressed book VoteScam, written by Jim and Ken Collier: ...Your vote and mine may now be a meaningless bit of energy directed by preprogrammed computers-which can be fixed to select certain pre-ordained candidates and leave no footprints or paper trail. In short, computers are covertly stealing your vote. --For almost three decades the American vote has been subject to government-sponsored electronic theft. --The vote has been stolen from you by a cartel of federal national security bureaucrats, who include higher-ups in the Central Intelligence Agency, political party leaders, Congressmen, co-opted journalists -- and the owners and managers - of the major Establishment news media, who have decided in concert that how America's votes are counted, by whom they are counted and how the results are verified and delivered to the public is, as one of them put it, 'Not a proper area of inquiry.' --By means of an unofficial private corporation named News Election Service (NES), the Establishment press has actual physical control of the counting and dissemination of the vote, and it refuses to let the public know how it is done.[ http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/Skull_Bones_3.htm ]They are choosing a republican when they want chages internationally,and a democrat when internally?Can this society/satanic administration on earth control next things:make food and drug/medicin production unhealthy,using unhealthy chemicals,so that people are not healthy/stopping criticism and healthy things,like vitamins and information about those things-start wars(f.ex.9/11,etc.)-“ The Skull & Bones members believe in the idea of constructive chaos. By keeping their true policy intentions secret, by constantly sending out mixed signals on all critical policy issues, they consciously seek to sow confusion among both their nominal friends and enemies alike”[quote: http://www.parascope.com/articles/0997/skullbones.htm ] make 2 opposite sides fight against each others(nazis/communists,nazis/coloured,islam/western world,football-hooliganism,etc.). HISTORY: It all began at Yale. In 1832, General William Huntington Russell and Alphonso Taft put together a super secret society for the elite children of the Anglo- American Wall Street banking establishment. William Huntington Russell's step-brother Samuel Russell ran Russell & Co., the world's largest OPIUM smuggling operation in the world at the time. Alphonso Taft is the Grandfather of our ex-president Howard Taft, the creator of the Forerunner to the United Nations. Only 15 seniors are picked each year by the former graduating class. [ quote: http://www.freedomdomain.com/skullbones. html ] The Skull & Bones Society has been described as the most secretive organization in the world. Some of the world's most famous and powerful men alive today are bonesmen, including George Bush, Nicholas Brady, and William F. Buckley. Other bonesmen include Henry Luce (Time-Life), Harold Stanley (founder of Morgan Stanley), Henry P. Davison (senior partner Morgan Guaranty Trust), Artemus Gates (President of New York Trust Company, Union Pacific, TIME, Boeing Company), Senator John Chaffe, Russell W. Davenport (editor Fortune Magazine), and many others. All have taken a solemn vow of secrecy. [Quote: http://www.jeremiahproject.com/prophecy/ nworder03.html ] - Read ANTHONY SUTTON : Antony C. Sutton, 74, has been persecuted but never prosecuted for his research and subsequent publishing of his findings. . . . [Antony] Sutton comes to conclusions that are uncomfortable for many businessmen and economists. For this reason his work tends to be either dismissed out of hand as 'extreme' or, more often, simply ignored. The report was too much and Sutton's career as a well-paid member of the academic establishment was under attack and he was told that he would not survive. His work led him to more questions than answers. Why had the US built-up it's enemy? Why did the US build-up the Soviet Union, while we also transferred technology to Hitler's Germany? Why does Washington want to conceal these facts? Sutton, following his leads, proceeded to research and write his three outstanding books on Wall Street: and FDR; and the Rise of Hitler; and The Bolshevik Revolution. Then, someone sent Antony a membership list of Skull and Bones and--a picture jumped out. And what a picture! A multigenerational foreign-based secret society with fingers in all kinds of pies and roots going back to 'Illuminati' influences in 1830's Germany. [ Quote: http://www.rense.com/politics6/SKULL.htm ] Is this the reason why,especially high, education is made so expensive, that studying is difficult for people who has not much money.Skull & Bones Society: How The Order Controls EducationScience has largely been a success when applied to "dead" things such as matter and energy - electronics, mechanics, civil engineering, physics and chemistry. It has been a complete failure when applied to individuals (i.e. psychiatry, modern psychology) and societies (sociology, group psychology, mass manipulation, behavioral control). Instead, "science", working with governments and "advertizers" have primarily spent all their time and energy figuring out how to control and manipulate minds, to forward their ideas of "order", "social harmony", and "peace".[ QUOTE: http://www.sntp.net/education/sutton_1.htm ] Is this satanic administration,Skull and Bones (under,together or above them,)actually ruling whole world and creating war and anti-christianity (to create Harmagedon?)f.ex.ruining morality by using psychological learnings and medias,., creating drug-,youth gang- ,big city-,pervert sex-,etc. cultures and chaos/violence,instead of christian values in order to destroy Christianity and on the other hand create nationalism,nazism,racism,etc.(in order to create satanistic world as their goal?First creating Armageddon?) 11th Sept. (= 9/11) was only a act to make world accept terror laws-in order to make control of people stronger and world-wide?And start Irak-war?)Are they sending muslims and catholics to Europe/worldwide and using them against Christians(future?)? Those guys were men behind Hitler(creating world war 2),JFKs murder(creating Vietnam war[JFK was last president not obeying Skull and Bones,and “any president not obeying them,will be murdered”.Source:Cutting Edge-link above])and 11/9(creating Irak-war)? We can ask:why psychiatrists Al-Zawahiri(man behind creating muslim terrorism of Al-Qaeda,OsamaBinLaden,f.ex. hypnotized pilots of 9/11)and Radovan Karadzic(man behind creating Yugoslavian crimes against humanity in Serbia)are still free, are not judged or why media doesn´t tell about them?This is their New world order?These guys are above everything,causing all those things written here,but being so high and delegating their orders and masterplans,that only few people know about it. These guys keep middle-class down,and make people slaves of society,medical/food-industry and media?Creating (all?) violence on this planet?Data in this writing should not be used against USA,because it seems that arguments against USA,used by nazi/communists,are arguments against things created by Skull&Bones or/and satanic administration,or created by this satanic management itself,in order to create war/anarchy/chaos/nazism?USA is number one country of the world,and happiness and enthusiasm of American people,American way of life and“the American dream”(giving hard-working,able people possibility to become successful)are best things on this planet.Sutton said something like this:”..only by using 10 000 different ways,we can stop Skull&Bones-New world order..”Jesus Christ:The TRUTH shall make us free..,not violence..[PLEASE,FORWARD THIS MESSAGE-AND HELP WORLD BECOME FREE!(S@B.US IS NOT A REAL E-MAIL-ADDRESS]

Posted by: N at June 24, 2004 12:31 PM