Yeah, right, blame it on Clinton. If you've been watching anything of the
9/11 committee testimony in the last couple of days you'll see that the real
"wall" that Ashcroft tried so hard to pin on Clinton was brought on by
actions taken during the Reagan years when intelligence was screwing up
actual prosecution of foreign agents by doing some decidely non-American
things in their efforts to gain more intelligence, not of the purpose of
prosecution, but to get the info on additional foreign agents. The courts
took it as a un-constitutional effort that could be used by prosecutors, so
the "wall" was built to protect the prosecutor's abilities to actually put
the bad guys in jail.

It's the reason that, even though the information from Mousousei's computer
was deemed necessary, the mid-level FBI management wouldn't try for the
warrant, and, in fact, this guy's name never even got up to the upper levels
of management in the FBI.

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Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio

"ryanm" wrote in message
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"Cossie" wrote in message
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And believe me, my mentioning of that problem wasn't intended to
exclude all of the other screw-ups, lies, and misdirections. What
makes you think ignoring terrorists entering the country and ignoring
warnings from the FBI are mutually exclusive?

Ah, but wasn't that particular screw-up presided over by Clinton?
Didn't
most of them enter the country while he was president? I'm just trying to
get a handle on your position. Everyone likes to make these soundbyte-like
statements, but as soon as I raise a question the story usually changes.

ryanm