NY Sun [1] today comes up with a rather interesting read of a part of the 9/11 commission report that doesn’t show in the summary:
” In August of 2000, Mr. Berger was presented with another possible plan for attacking Mr. bin Laden.This time, the plan would be based on aerial surveillance from a “Predator” drone. Reports the commission: “In the memo’s margin,Berger wrote that before considering action, “I will want more than verified location: we will need, at least, data on pattern of movements to provide some assurance he will remain in place.
In other words, according to the commission report, Mr. Berger was presented with plans to take action against the threat of Al Qaeda four separate times … Spring 1998, June 1999, December 1999, and August 2000. Each time, Mr. Berger was an obstacle to action. Had he been a little less reluctant to act, a little more open to taking pre-emptive action, maybe the 2,973 killed in the September 11, 2001, attacks would be alive today. ”
And perhaps Berger wouldn’t have been trying to shove clasified documents, listing these missed chances into his socks, and shorts, huh?
Let’s recap;
Berger ran the security show in Clinton’s administration. Berger was also Kerry’s chief security advisor, and likley to be running the show in any (God Forbid) Kerry Administration. so along comes the 9/11 commission, threatening, in an election year to show the American people who had dropped all those golden opportunites to muzzle AlQuieda. Berger, and Clinton, thus threatening Kerry’s chances of being elected. So, Berger tries to remove said documents from the national archives, thus giving the Democrats the cover they needed… or so they figured.
And the connection between the Kerry and Clinton administrations is of great import;
Nobody has as yet explained to us the differences in foreign policy between the Clinton administration and any Kerry administration because there isn’t any…a point to which they tacitly admitted when they pulled their security plans the official Kerry Website the other day, following the story coming out about Berger stealing those damning clasified documents…. documents revealing this idiocy that was fatal so so many Americans. idiocy that rests with the Democrats alone.
Is this really the crowd the Americans want in office, again?
Blogs for Bush [2] has more to say