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==1993 World Trade Center bombing and aftermath==

==1993 World Trade Center bombing and aftermath==

[[Jamie S. Gorelick]] served as Deputy Attorney General under [[Janet Reno]] and authored the [[1995 Gorelick memo]]. The ''Wall Street Journal'' reported that

The terrorist group [[al-Qaeda]] bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, simultaneous bombings of the US embassies in [[Kenya]] and [[Tanzania]] in 1998, and an attack on the [[USS Cole]] in [[Yemen]] in 2000.  

:During the investigation of the first [[World Trade Center]] bombing, Gorelick instructed then-FBI Director Louis Freeh and United States Attorney Mary Jo White that for the sake of "appearances" they would be required to adhere to an interpretation of the wall far stricter than the law required. [http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110004956]

Also in the ''Journal'':

:The Mary Jo White prosecutions and the 2001 Moussaoui arrest were among our best chances to uncover and unravel the al Qaeda network before it struck the homeland. But thanks in part to the Clinton Administration's concern with appearances and in part to its legacy, these investigations were hamstrung. [http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110004956]

:Because the memo created a barrier for U.S. intelligence agencies to share information with the FBI, one of its unintended consequences might have been to prevent the FBI from receiving the necessary intelligence to stop the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the worst in American history. <ref>http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/4/26/153933.shtml</ref>

Attorney General [[John Ashcroft]] told the [[9/11 commission]]:

:"The simple fact of September 11th is this ... We did not know an attack was coming because for nearly a decade our government had blinded itself to its enemies. Our agents were isolated by government-imposed walls." <ref>http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/4/26/153933.shtml</ref>

Ramzi Yousef, who delivered the explosives in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing killing six people, is the nephew of [[Khalid Sheikh Mohammed]], a top figure in al-Qaeda. After the September 2001 attack, it was the opinion of many investigators and analysts that the perpetrators of that attack had a state sponsor - [[Iraq]].  A number of details, including the fact that Yousef was travelling on an Iraqi passport, as well as the date of the 1993 attack - the second anniversary of the U.S. liberation of [[Kuwait]] in the [[Persian Gulf War]] - furthered suspicions of Iraqi involvement in the 1993 incident. His uncle, Sheikh Mohammed was one of the masterminds the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, and was arrested in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on March 1, 2003. <ref>[http://intelwire.egoplex.com/2007_03_14_exclusives.html Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Admits 9/11, WTC 1993, Plot To Kill Clinton,] By J.M. Berger, INTELWIRE.com]</ref>

 

"The Clinton administration neutered the American intelligence agencies that could have stopped the September 11 plot." <ref>http://thecitytroll.blogspot.com/2007/09/reminder-of-who-clintons-are-owned-by.html</ref>

Bush Attorney General [[John Ashcroft]] told the 9/11 investigating commission, "The simple fact of September 11th is this ... We did not know an attack was coming because for nearly a decade our government had blinded itself to its enemies. Our agents were isolated by government-imposed walls." <ref>http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/4/26/153933.shtml</ref>

 

Ramzi Yousef, who delivered the explosives in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing killing six people, is the nephew of [[Khalid Sheikh Mohammed]], a top figure in al-Qaeda. After the [[September 2001 attack]], it was the opinion of many investigators and analysts that the perpetrators of that attack had a state sponsor - [[Iraq]].  A number of details, including the fact that Yousef was travelling on an Iraqi passport, as well as the date of the 1993 attack - the second anniversary of the U.S. liberation of [[Kuwait]] in the [[Persian Gulf War]] - furthered suspicions of Iraqi involvement in the 1993 incident. His uncle, Sheikh Mohammed was one of the masterminds the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, and was arrested in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on March 1, 2003. <ref>[http://intelwire.egoplex.com/2007_03_14_exclusives.html Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Admits 9/11, WTC 1993, Plot To Kill Clinton,] By J.M. Berger, INTELWIRE.com]</ref> The Clinton administration neutered the American intelligence agencies that could have stopped the September 11 plot. <ref>http://thecitytroll.blogspot.com/2007/09/reminder-of-who-clintons-are-owned-by.html</ref>

== Proposal to privatize Social Security ==

== Proposal to privatize Social Security ==