Now, The US department did not identify which asian countries
had done this, but It's a common knowledge. After so many years,
only now did this incident came Up.. why now? Isn't this a good
propaganda news to rave up the "war on Terror" theme ?
Intel pros say Bush is lying about foiling 2002 terror
attack
Outraged intelligence professionals say President George W. Bush is
"cheapening" and "politicizing" their work with claims the United
States foiled a planned terrorist attack against Los Angeles in
2002.
"The President has cheapened the entire intelligence
community by dragging us into his fantasy world," says a longtime
field operative of the Central Intelligence Agency. "He is basing
this absurd claim on the same discredited informant who told us Al
Qaeda would attack selected financial institutions in New York and
Washington."
Within hours of the Presidents speech Thursday claiming
his administration had prevented a major attack, sources who said
they were current and retired intelligence pros from the CIA, NSA,
FBI and military contacted Capitol Hill Blue with angry comments
disputing the Presidents remarks.
Hes full of shit, said one sharply-worded email.
Although none were willing to allow use of their names, saying
doing so would place them in legal jeopardy, we were able to
confirm that at least four of the 23 who contacted us currently
work, or had worked, within the U.S. intelligence community.
But Los Angeles Mayor Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is willing to go
on the record, claiming Bush blind-sided his city with the
claims.
"I'm amazed that the president would make this (announcement) on
national TV and not inform us of these details through the
appropriate channels," the mayor says. "I don't expect a call from
the president but somebody." Villaraigosa also said he has twice
requested meetings with Bush to discuss security issues for Los
Angeles and was turned down both times.
Intelligence pros say much of the information used by Bush
in an attempt to justify his increased spying on Americans by the
National Security Agency, trampling of civil rights under the USA
Patriot Act, and massive buildup of the Department of Homeland
Security, now the nations largest federal bureaucracy, was
worthless intel that was discarded long ago.
A lot of buzz circulated in the months following the September 11,
2001, attacks, says an NSA operative. Snippets here and there
were true but most was just random information that could never be
confirmed. One thing we do know about al Qaeda is that they seldom
use the same technique twice. They tried a car bomb to bring down
the World Trade Center and it failed. Then they went to planes. The
next time will be something different because weve geared up to
prevent hijacking planes and using them as flying bombs.
In August 2004, just as the Presidential campaign was about
to heat up, the Bush White House raised the terror alert, claiming
attacks were imminent on major financial institutions. The alert,
apparently timed to steal thunder from Democrat John Kerrys
nomination for President, was withdrawn after administration
officials admitted it was based on old information from a
discredited informant.
The discredited information dated back to the same period when
intelligence agencies began receiving reports of a planned attack
against Los Angeles.
Former DHS secretary Tom Ridge admits the U.S. raised terror alerts
for the wrong reasons and now says he often disagreed with the
timing of such alerts but was overruled by the White House.
"More often than not we were the least inclined to raise it," Ridge
says. "Sometimes we disagreed with the intelligence assessment.
Sometimes we thought even if the intelligence was good, you don't
necessarily put the country on alert, There were times when the
White House was really aggressive about raising it, and we said,
'For that?' We often lost the argument."
Ridge left DHS in February 2005 and replaced him with Michael
Chertoff who agrees with the cry wolf strategy of the White
House.
Chertoff is a lackey, says Kevin Riley, a retired New York City
Detective who knew Chertoff during his days as a U.S. Attorney in
New York. Hell do whatever Bush tells him to do.
Intelligence pros at established Washington agencies laugh at DHS
operatives, calling them Keystone Kops and overpaid
rent-a-cops, saying they lack any real expertise in dealing with
terrorism.
DHS is a political police force, says a retired CIA agent. They
exist to enforce the political propaganda program of George W.
Bush. Thats all theyre good for and theyre not very good at
that.
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/blog/2006/02/intel_pros_say_bush_is_lying_a.html
