The
FBI was overruled every single time by the State
Department, by Susan Rice and her cronies, who were
hell-bent on destroying the Sudan.
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Behind The Curve |
Another ex-Clinton official who played
a leading role in bungling efforts to capture and/or neutralize Osama
bin Laden has
turned up in a key advisory position with the Kerry campaign in
2004.
Susan Rice, who served as
President Clinton's Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs,
had earlier been tapped by Gov. Howard Dean's anti-war campaign...
"The FBI, in 1996 and 1997, had their efforts to look at
terrorism data and deal with the bin Laden issue overruled every single
time by the State Department, by Susan Rice and her cronies, who were
hell-bent on destroying the Sudan," one-time Clinton diplomatic
troubleshooter Mansoor Ijaz told radio host Sean Hannity in 2002.
Richard Miniter, author of the book "Losing bin Laden,"
concurred, saying Rice played a key role in scuttling the deal that
could have prevented the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.
In November 2003, Miniter told World Magazine that while
Sudan was anxious to turn bin Laden over to the U.S., Rice -- then a
member of Clinton's National Security Council -- questioned Khartoum's
credibility...
In April 1997, they
said, Sudan dropped its demand that Washington lift sanctions in
exchange for terrorism cooperation.
"Sudan's policy shift sparked a debate at the State Department, where
foreign service officers believed the United States should reengage
Khartoum. By the end of summer 1997, [those officers] persuaded incoming
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to let at least some diplomatic
staff return to Sudan to press for a resolution of the civil war and
pursue offers to cooperate on terrorism.
"Two individuals, however, disagreed. NSC terrorism specialist
Richard Clarke and NSC Africa specialist Susan Rice, who was about to
become Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs."
Rice and Clarke persuaded Clinton National Security Adviser
Sandy Berger to overrule Albright on the Sudanese terrorism overtures,
said Ijaz and Carney.
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Susan And Osama |
As a Senior Foreign Policy
Adviser to the Obama Campaign, Susan Rice, 43, has taken a
leading role
in helping to shape the freshman Illinois senator's vision for the
world, building on a bond forged in part by their shared -- and
outspoken -- opposition to the war in Iraq.
An assistant
secretary of state under President Clinton, Ms. Rice also served as a
senior adviser on the Kerry-Edwards campaign in 2004.
"Supporting
Senator Obama was a clear choice for me," she said.
According to
multiple sources, including former Clinton official Mansoor Ijaz and
Richard Miniter, author of the bestseller Losing Bin Laden, it was she
who was a major opponent of accepting Sudan’s offer to turn over the
world’s most wanted mass murderer. At the time, Rice was the Clinton
Administration’s Secretary of State for African Affairs and a former
assistant National Security Advisor under Sandy Berger.
According
the both Ijaz and Miniter, Rice’s personal beliefs on the Sudan’s
credibility led to her convincing Berger to reject their offer to turn
over Bin Laden, overruling the advice of Tim Carney, then ambassador to
Sudan. Her partner in this colossal error in judgment? Bush hater
Richard Clarke. Sadly, a little more than a year later, Bin Laden’s
murderers blew up the African embassies, killing U. S. soldiers and
citizens.
She is one of the few people still vouching for Joe
Wilson’s credibility long after everyone else realized that not even
vultures could find any shred of credibility on the Wilson carcass.
One absolutely shudders at the thought of this woman being in charge
of our national security. She has been behind the curve and wrong on
just about every issue on which she’s gone on record. The fact that she
has the Osama cloud hanging over her head, and her shilling for Howard
Dean should automatically disqualify her from being anywhere near a
position of influence in national security affairs. |
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