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March 29, 2006
A Horrifying View Of An Alternate History
DJ Drummond at Polipundit presents a truly disturbing vision of what the federal reaction would have been if 9/11 had occurred during the Clinton administration. Drummond has discovered an actual GAO report from 1997 entitled COMBATING TERRORISM: Federal Agencies’ Efforts to Implement National Policy and Strategy. In short, the Clinton administration response to 9/11 would apparently have echoed its response to the first WTC bombing: the terrorist act of war against the sovereign US would have been treated as a domestic criminal act. Here's a couple of excerpts (hat tip to Mark Tapscott):
The Report has a flow chart of command authority on page 21. It’s worth noting that there are six layers of people between those making a decision and those who would carry it out, and that this Report puts the National Security Agency, CIA, Secret Service, ATF, and Customs at bottom rung of the ladder, with no authority of their own in a crisis or direct access to the President or the National Security Advisor, who is not even listed on the chart as a source or recipient of information in a terrorist crisis.
Staggering, but not surprising. What follows is worse:
The Report, on page 24, then revealed a true shocker – results of the Working Groups are included in reports developed into talking points, to be discussed with other members of the G-8. That means that concerns and policy development for the National Security of the United States could be and conceivably was discussed with members of the governments of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Russia. Note that as of 2001, at least four of these seven countries were in contact and cooperation with enemies of the United States, and were opposed to American policy in several key venues.Emphases mine. Drummond is simply summarizing an actual report published by the US government--this is not idle blogger speculation. And the truly frightening thing about it is that Clinton is smarter and probably more decisive than Gore and Kerry combined.
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