research request - Looking for cinton era anti-terror information

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Hey guys,

Im putting together an article this time if I can make it work. This one one item is really eluding me.

I need to find information on the anti-terror efforts of the Clinton administration. Especially success stories against Al-Queda.

Any assistance is appreciated.

Thanks
TearForger

[wyldwolf]

1. here...

http://www.rememberjohn.com/clintongore.html

[warren pease]

2. See Will Pitt's Truthout article here...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/101303A.shtml



wp

[radwriter0555]

3. Well it would help if al queda actually EXISTED, now wouldn't it?

So why doncha google clinton+mother+jones+funding+military+terror, see what pops up?

Google is a FANTASTIC tool for finding out how MUCH clinton actually did, including putting real terrorists behind bars.

THen you'd also find out about Gore's Airline Safety Commission of 1996, which the GOP congress denied ANY money for, which bush is NOW implementing.

And along your google search you'd find SCORES of OTHER anti-terror bills and resolutions that the whore GOP congress refused to fund beccause they were too busy sniffing clinton's dick.

Google baby, google. It's out there, all the info is out there. Just like the perps bush can't be bothered to put in jail or capture.

Clinton put the crooks of the first WTC event in jail. bush just goes hunting for oil.

[Noordam]

4. From the Clinton Wars by Sidney Blumenthal

Each of these is a number of pages in PDF format from Sidney's book.


http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/08/18_blumenthal.html

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/08/20_blumenthal.html

[Divernan]

5. Try the Snopes.com website for specifics.

Look for Clinton & terrorist attacks. I recall a statement there that Clinton tripled the counter-terrorism budget to $6.5 million. I think this is a much more powerful statement than something general like "Clinton spent millions and millions on counter terrorism". It listed all the attacks and tells what Clinton did in response to them.

[madfloridian]

6. Here is a copy of his Antiterrorism bill from 96, and other links.

Clinton's Antiterrorism bill
http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/WH_fact_sheet_10_96.html
"WHITE HOUSE FACT SHEET ON COUNTER-TERRORISM MEASURES
(Source: U.S. Information Agency)
Washington -- The counter-terrorism measures signed into law by President Clinton October 9 constitute a broad-based strategy ranging from increased security at federal buildings to tighter scrutiny of aircraft cargo.

The $1,097 million authorized includes money to relocate U.S. forces stationed in Saudi Arabia, where car bombs killed 24 in two incidents, and up-graded security provisions like concrete barriers and intrusion detection devices at posts elsewhere in the world.

The money will provide more resources for U.S. attorneys and federal judges to handle criminal cases arising from terrorism, and will increase security at FBI headquarters and other federal buildings. A compilation by the White House details other counter-terror steps now approved by law."END SNIP

Power over the people: Clinton's antiterrorism bill
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0331/mondo3.php

How Conservative became the ACLU's best friends.
http://www.prospect.org/print/V12/19/confessore-n.html
SNIP...."Then, in April 1995, came the Oklahoma City bombings. Two weeks later, the White House unveiled a massive antiterrorism bill that included funding for as many as 1,000 new agents in the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms--"jackbooted thugs," as an NRA fundraising letter sent that March had described them--as well as new wiretapping powers and the establishment of a domestic antiterrorism center. A few days after that, Bill Clinton gave his famous speech that attacked "militias and all others who believe that the greatest threat to freedom comes from government"--drawing a devastating (albeit somewhat unfair) connection between Timothy McVeigh and the Republicans elected to Congress six months earlier. Suddenly, Clinton and the Democrats stood for law and order, while the class of '94 stood for militias and terrorism.

The Republicans were stunned. But so were civil libertarians: Clinton's bill also included provisions to revise the Posse Comitatus Act (which forbids military involvement in domestic-law enforcement), to establish a secret court in which prosecutors could introduce classified evidence, and to institute the most sweeping restrictions on habeas corpus--the process by which prisoners can appeal their convictions in federal court--since the Civil War. Worse, the Senate passed Clinton's bill virtually unchanged; Democratic and Republican leaders in the House were preparing to do the same. The civil-liberties left needed new allies......" END SNIP

I am not familiar with The Prospect, but the article is interesting. I found it by searching for Clinton and antiterrorism. It is quite a different look at the ACLU connection to Bob Barr and other issues we have mentioned here. If this is not a good site to quote, I am sure I will hear. I just don't know.