| Subj: | Check out msnbc.com!!! |
| Date: | 10/24/01 10:10:38 PM Pacific Daylight Time |
Kent,
Hello! I visit your site regularly
& have just been completely blown away by what I have read on
www.msnbc.com
tonight.
I know you have probably already read it but I thought what if you hadn't.
I just want to scream to the people in the United States ~ WAKE UP!!!
How convenient it would be if we would all just "go play golf" while the
goverment took care of everything. Well, I guess they think that now that
they have everyone out playing golf they can get down to business.
WAKE UP AMERICA!!!
The very thing that our forefathers died for ~ the very thing that our country
stands for is being TAKEN AWAY!!!
Keep screaming it Kent! Keep telling them! People are hearing! Your efforts
are not in vane!!! And thank you for allowing us all the chance to SEE THE
TRUTH & DECIDE FOR OURSELVES!!!
God Bless YOU & YOURS!!!
I'm including the URL to these pages but am also going to copy & paste
what was said here in case they remove it. I have made some of the
text bold because I just couldn't believe they had posted it.
Here it is:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/647405.asp
Did U.S. leave room for bin Laden?
Former CIA agent says U.S. forces withdrew from Afghanistan
too soon in 1980s
Oct. 24 — In an NBC exclusive, Andrea Mitchell interviews a man who
probably knows more about the perils of warfare inside Afghanistan than any
other American. He is a former high-ranking CIA
official who effectively ran America’s undercover role in driving the
Soviets out of Afghanistan. And he has some ominous
warnings.
IN the mid-1980s, when the Soviet Union was crushing the Afghanistan resistance,
the United States tapped a top CIA agent to arm the rebels with high-powered
stinger missiles which were able to track and shoot down Soviet helicopters.
It was a weapon that helped win the war. And now, after 32 years of running
secret programs, that agent is now in from the cold.
“I’m a covert action person,” says Jack Devine. “I believe
we should be out there pushing U.S. policy wherever we can, covertly and
overtly.”
But after Devine helped win the $3 billion war against the Soviets, America
got out fast. The cold war was over and Afghanistan was too complicated.
“The sentiment was, ‘Look it’s over, let’s move
on,’” says Devine.
He won’t say it, but other CIA officials will. Devine alone argued that
the United States should stay and not leave a political vacuum that was ripe
for radical Muslim leaders — like a rich, young Saudi fighter named
Osama Bin Laden.
If the United States had stayed, could it have prevented bin Laden from finding
refuge there?
“I think with the advantage of hindsight, and we could reconstruct the
world, bin Laden would have gone somewhere else,” says Devine.
So, how does the United States now get bin Laden? Devine says the
only way is to penetrate his cells with agents willing to pass his loyalty
tests. What kind of tests?
“You’re gonna participate in some
sort of terrorist act,” says Devine.
Does that mean the U.S. could have somebody blowing something up, killing
Americans, who was indirectly twice removed on the payroll of the CIA?
“Right,” says Devine, “and that was inconceivable until September
11.”
What about the anthrax attacks? Devine believes the letters and
the sophistication all have bin Laden’s signature — and that it
may be a diversion.
“I think its al-Qaida,” says Devine, “but I believe that
they’re working on something more complicated and more dangerous. And
that this is sort of just keeping us psychologically off balance. And I think
we’re in a foot race.”
It’s a foot race with terrorists, who will strike again.
“New York has to remain a key target,” says Devine. “The
terrorists looked at what they accomplished by hitting this city.”
He does believe the United States will get Bin Laden, but hopes this time
his country will stay in Afghanistan to prevent a future disaster.
**NOW FOR THE NEXT PAGE THAT STOOD MY HAIR ON
END!!!**
http://www.msnbc.com/news/635975.asp
House OKs counterterrorism bill
Senate expected to pass measure and send to Bush by Friday
MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
Oct. 23 — By an overwhelming margin, the House passed a bill Wednesday
that would give the federal government far-reaching powers to investigate
suspected terrorists operating in the United States. The legislation would
allow federal law enforcement agents to tap all the phones used by a suspect
anywhere in the United States, and to share secret grand jury information
with intelligence agencies to track suspected terrorists.
THE LEGISLATION was passed by a vote of 357 to 66. It will be taken up by
the Senate later Wednesday or Thursday with the idea of sending it to President
Bush for a possible signing at the White House on Friday.
In a compromise reached with the Senate, most of the bill’s new wiretapping
and surveillance powers would expire in four years.
The House had wanted a five-year “sunset” clause, while the
Senate’s original bill had no such provision.
The bill the House approved Wednesday also contains money-laundering provisions
which the House had earlier passed in a separate bill.
TRACKING E-MAIL
The latest House bill also contains a provision, not found in the Senate
version, which requires the Department of Justice to file a secret memorandum
with a federal court in Washington when the government installs on an Internet
Service Provider a device known as a “pen register,” which can
record all the e-mail addresses a person sends mail to, and the Web sites
he visits.
The bill also requires the attorney general to review every six months the
detention of any non-citizen who has been certified as an alien terrorist.
• The legal impact of the war on terrorism
“This legislation is desperately needed and the president has called
on Congress to pass it now,” House Judiciary Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner,
R-Wis., said in Tuesday’s House debate
Some Democrats warned the bill gives law enforcers too much power. Rep. Bobby
Scott, D-Va., added: “It’s not
just limited to terrorism. Had it been limited to terrorism, this bill could
have passed three or four weeks ago without much discussion.”
In a letter to members of the House, the American Civil Liberties
Union said Tuesday that the legislation “gives the attorney
general and federal law enforcement unnecessary and permanent new powers
to violate civil liberties that go far beyond the stated goal of fighting
international terrorism. These new and unchecked powers could be used against
American citizens who are not under criminal investigation.”
Final approval may be delayed in the Senate. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., has
threatened to block final approval in the Senate because of a compromise
Senate negotiators made to get House approval.
The original Senate bill tinkered with the “McDade amendment,”
which would prevent federal prosecutors from using investigative techniques
— such as wiretaps or undercover stings — that are disallowed under
ethics rules set by state and local bar associations, although not barred
by federal law.
The Senate fix would loosen the McDade amendment, named for Joe McDade, a
former congressman whose reputation was clouded by an eight-year racketeering
case before he won acquittal in 1996.
Wyden wants the fix put back into the anti-terrorism bill and has threatened
to delay final approval. By Senate custom, any senator can block a bill,
at least temporarily. Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., can override the
block.
Senate leaders dumped a provision, sought by some House members, that would
have prohibited the use of credit cards or checks for illegal Internet gambling.
Law enforcement authorities have identified Internet gambling as a means
for money laundering.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.