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Originally Posted by chosenbyone
First of all, we need to find someone who would be a good President before we look at a good VP!
I believe that Rice's credibility and reputation has been forever tarnished by her participation in the Bush Administration. The latest poll showed that 71% of Americans thought that Bush had lead this country down the wrong path to financial collapse (I threw in the financial collapse part).
Anyhow, my personal opinion of Rice changed after she testified in the 9/11 hearings that "no one in this administration would have ever conceived of terrorist hijacking planes and flying then into buildings". Hello? The evidence sure suggested that flying planes into buildings was not only conceived by folks in the Administration, but NORAD had trained and WAS training for such a scenario on 9/11. There were trails of security breifs that showed that her office was notified of the threat! In fact, wasn't the State Department warned of such a threat earlier that year by Italy's Secret Service and Britain's too?
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Her office was also notified of threats to put LSD in the drinking water and of the dangers of "mind control" satellites. They only have so many resources to check out every "tip." Between tracking down everything that comes through our porous borders and jumping through all the legal hoops that Congress put in place back in the 70's and 80's it's a wonder that the Reptillians from Antares haven't gotten through yet. Or maybe they have!
And look at what happened when the NSA followed up on Britain's "tip" about Sadaam's uranium deals in Niger. Monday morning quarterbacking is so easy. What if they had credible evidence that something was going down specifically on 9/11/2001 and it involved airplane hijacks? What could the NSA have done?
They would have had to first advise a Congressional committee and ask for permission to alert the FBI of this matter involving "foreign intelligence." Congress and the President would then have had to authorize the Justice Dept. to receive the "foreign intelligence" from the NSA and to act upon it. The FBI would then have been tasked with deploying agents to each of the thousands of flights that took off that day - and every day - and there simply aren't enough FBI agents for that.
In the end, a panicked message would have to have been broadcast to the public saying something like - "Forget everything we've ever said before about hijackings- break all the rules this one day and resist the hijackers!"
We would have had everyone from turbined Sikhs to mean old grannies from Kokomo being tossed out of planes all across the country causing catastrophic decompression and far more than just the four plane wrecks we did suffer.
Heinlein's Law on Conspiracy is valid here: "Never attribute to a conspiracy that which is adequetley explained by incompetence."
Simply put - as a country, we were as prepared for 9/11 back then as we are today for the planned infiltration of our world's government by the Grey Aliens. The "Greys" are another "tip" that has been sent into the NSA.
Dr. Rice was in her post for only about 6 months before 9/11. It's silly to blame her or even the NSA establishment. The real culprits are the ones who did the killing. By ignoring that fact you only strengthen them to kill again.
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