Next Regnery Rough Beast Slouches to Amazon #4

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Richard MINITER. The cable yakkers are drumbeating this wingnut jerk. Besides that he's a Regnery and Faux product, is there anything more that detracts from his credibility?

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http://www.regnery.com/authors/bio_miniter.html
Richard Miniter is an investigative journalist and author. He was a member of the award-winning Sunday Times (of London) investigative team whose four-part series traced the secret war between Clinton and bin Laden. He appears regularly on Fox News to discuss al Qaeda and global terrorism. Formerly, Miniter was an editorial page writer at The Wall Street Journal Europe and a columnist for The Wall Street Journal’s OpinionJournal.com. Miniter has written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, Reader’s Digest, The New Republic, National Review, and many other publications. His work has been recognized by the National Press Club and International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Currently, he is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the New Europe, a Brussels-based think tank, and divides his time between Brussels, Belgium, and Washington, D.C. His first book was The Myth of Market Share. His website can be found at RichardMiniter.com.

http://www.regnery.com/regnery/030820_losing.html
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The new evidence that Clinton knew about Sudan’s offers to arrest bin Laden—and why he ignored them

Why Bill Clinton refused to meet with his first director of Central Intelligence

How Clinton ignored intelligence and offers of cooperation against bin Laden from Afghanistan’s Northern Alliance

How Bill Clinton scuttled a secret offer from the United Arab Emirates to arrest bin Laden

The 1993 World Trade Center attack—why Clinton refused to believe it had been bombed; why the CIA was kept out of the investigation; and how one of the FBI’s most trusted informants was actually a double agent working for bin Laden

How Clinton ignored Yemen’s pleas for help in arresting bin Laden—in 1993

The untold story of a respected Congressman who repeatedly warned Clinton officials about bin Laden in 1993—and why he was ignored

Revealed for the first time: how Clinton and a Democratic Senator stopped the CIA from hiring Arabic translators—while phone intercepts from bin Laden remained untranslated


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[Cheswick2.0]

1. OMG, these people have no shame

they don't care what lies they tell

[Touchdown]

2. I got an answer to that last one.

Revealed for the first time: how Clinton and a Democratic Senator stopped the CIA from hiring Arabic translators-while phone
intercepts from bin Laden remained untranslated

It wasn't Clinton, but it was just one or 2 Democrats and a whole slew of Republicans, specifically Sam Nunn, who was afraid that young Johnny was going to get his weenie looked at in the shower when he joined the Army, so they got rid of the gays that were asked and did tell. Most of the cryptographers in military intel were gay. there was a purge of about 8-12 in 1990, just before Desert Storm. The CIA had the same ban on gays in the early 90s that the military did.

edited for typos.

[agincourt]

3. Award for what?

How well he could rim-job Mellon-Scaife? Bulk buys are coming.

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4. 'nother One, POSNER on Today, "Why America Slept"

And the beat goes on. Debut 9-2, hmmm what timing for 9-11, #48 on the Amazon Top 100, in the top 10 of the "History" list.


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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375508791/ref=pd_ts_b_48/103-4469228-9527017?v=glance&s=books&n=1000#product-details
.... After an eighteen-month investigation that uncovered explosive new evidence through interviews and in classified documents, Gerald Posner reveals much previously undisclosed information:

• the identity of two countries that might have had foreknowledge that a terrorist attack was scheduled for September 11 on U.S. soil
• a startling account of the interrogation of a leading al Qaeda captive
• facts about a series of deaths that point to an ongoing conspiracy by some governments to hide the extent of their earlier relationships with al Qaeda
• details about a secret deal between Saudi Arabia and Osama bin Laden
• how the U.S. government missed several chances to kill or capture bin Laden
• evidence that German intelligence may have protected an informant who was involved with many of the 9/11 plotters
• how the CIA tracked—and then lost—two of the hijackers when they entered the United States more than twenty months before the attacks
• the devastating consequences of the crippling rivalry between the CIA and FBI as the United States moved unwittingly toward 9/11

In a dramatic narrative, Why America Slept exposes the frequent mistakes made by law enforcement and government agencies, and demonstrates how the failures to prevent 9/11 were tragically not an exception but typical. Along the way, by delving into terror financing, the links between far-flung terror organizations, and how the United States responded over the years to other attacks, Posner also makes a damning case that 9/11 could have been prevented.
Why America Slept lays to rest two years of conjecture about what led up to the worst terror attacks in America’s history. This breakthrough book presents an infuriating review of how incompetence and misplaced priorities made America an easy target for terrorists. ....

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5. Gee and for all of Clinton's "failures"

Osama bin Laden waited until Clinton's successor came on board, got a good look at what kind of spoiled frat boy was running the U.S.*, and correctly calculated his chances of launching a major attack on U.S. soil and getting away with it scot-free.

*Bush treating the presidency as his own personal piggy bank, shoveling the federal treasury out of its social security lock box and into the pockets of his benefactors, losing a spy plane to China then apologizing for the whole affair, having to enlist Russia in cleaning up that little mess, and then taking a month's vacation while the economy hemorrhaged jobs.