Great Post TR, Nice article
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Originally Posted by The Reaper
One of the best analysis and analogies I have seen.
TR
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06092/678571-108.stm
Jack Kelly: National security, Democratic style
A strategy in which slogans triumph over substance
Sunday, April 02, 2006
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
In the section on the War on Terror, Democrats pledge to "eliminate Osama bin Laden, destroy terrorist networks like al-Qaida, finish the job in Afghanistan and end the threat posed by the Taliban."
Since eliminating Osama bin Laden isn't exactly a radical departure from the policy President Bush is pursuing, Democratic stress on this objective suggests they think they could be more successful in obtaining it than the president so far has been. But the Democratic "plan" provides no hint of what Democrats would do differently to catch bin Laden.
Perhaps what Democrats have in mind is to build a time machine, and go back to February 1996, when Sudan, where bin Laden was then residing, offered to turn him over to the United States, and the Clinton administration refused to take him. Where's H.G. Wells when you need him? |
If I remember read once that in the 1994 or so the Clinton Admin had yet put out their NSC report or in a DOS Foreign policy on Terrorism that listed the Terrorism states that we were concerned with. UBL was never listed, he stay off any reports until just before the Cole bombing. Most within the CIA and FBI looked at him as a "leader".
Also the FBI was put in the lead for CT by the Amin; the CIA had FBI agents within the CT Center but the laws that stopped a lot of info exchange are now change.
Keep in mind that the WTC had been bombed by Yousef.
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Originally Posted by The Reaper
Democrats pledge to "increase our human intelligence capabilities." Again, this would be a welcome departure from past Democratic practices. A robust human intelligence capability was all but obliterated during the Carter administration. Our humint capabilities were partially rebuilt by CIA Director William Casey under Reagan, only to be sandbagged again in the Clinton administration.
President Clinton met more often with Monica Lewinsky than with his CIA directors, one of whom was caught mishandling classified information. And perhaps Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wisc., could explain how shutting down the NSA intercept program will improve intelligence gathering?
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Clinton pick Woolsey as the Director for him. Becuase of Common Roots. BS - just Yale law was all. They were both anti- war protestors for the Vietnam War, just like Lake and Clinton.
Also Clinton never sat down with his Director, correct me, but for like two years or so.
In the 80's, Woolsey was a arms control negotiator who used Satellites, so he became to believe that America's Spy Statellites Capabillity had decayed or something. Under him we up our SIGNET Capabillities not our HUMMIT.