Wasn’t it Ollie North who told the Senate in the 1980s that bin Laden was the most dangerous man in the world? Did he omit that bin Laden headed (or funded) AQ?

Wasn’t it pretty well known AQ was behind the bombing of the USS Cole? And the embassy in Kenya?

I suppose he might have meant the public hadn’t heard of AQ in 2001, despite the fact they were noted to have been behind the attacks on American forces in Somalia in (what was it) 1993 or so? Remember the movie Blackhawk down?

So, more idiociy. Sigh.

I pointed out that this “revelation” was that KSM admitted to his involvement in the Bojinka Plot of 1993-94 that had been actually thwarted 10 years before by the capture of Ramzi Youssef in the Philippines…by Philippino Police! I also noted that Youssef was legally extradicted to the US and convicted in a Federal Court of his involvement in the original WTC attacks. No need for extraordinary rendition, or a Gitmo!

In fact, RY confessed all too willingly and implicated KSM as the moneyman…leading to a manhunt that ultimately led to his capture in Pakistan.

And if Bush and Cheney had bothered to pay a little attention to the planning and design of the Bojinka Plot perhaps 9/11 could have been averted! It was cited in the Gore Commission report on airline safety as a reason to improve airline security…most of the Repugs, and not a few Blue Dogs, voted against the recommendations in that report. Presumably they read it? Presumably they “KNEW” that the Bojinka Plot was NOT disclosed and broken by water boarding KSM?

Still the wing nuts use such absurd examples that are so patently bogus.

It’s called ARMAGH

but is sometimes called “We Don’t Torture”.

Also where are the two sons of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that were renditioned to the United States in March of 2003 for “interrogation” [which was actually to compel KSM to “break”]? Where are they now?

Where they tortured…with insects, as was reported happening within a month of Woo’s approval of this “technique”?

And what about their mother?

Because:
It’s a different kind of world.
With a different kind of girl…

And since when did a recent VP make it a regular habit to lash out at his successors? Perhaps I’m mistaken, but I don’t recall anything like it in the recent past. Al Gore was far too silent after he left office. Mondale never made any big splashes. Quayle sniped occasionally at Clinton, but he wasn’t popping up every other weekend. Cheney shows that not only is he a monster, he has no class as well.

Al Qaida was ‘relatively’ unknown on September 11, 2001?

Where is the main stream media?

I guess Dick was too busy with the ENERGY policy behind his closed door!

Mikey Hayden is a bureaucrat’s bureaucrat. Tis why the Bushies loved him at the NSA and loved moving him to the CIA. Same with Mumbles Mukasey.

Caretakers who would take care of the Bushies needs.