Showing posts with label taliban. Show all posts
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Sunday, September 13, 2026

The 9-11 Terrorist Attacks 25 Years Later: Bush and Clinton Failed To Prevent The Attacks and Then Mamdani and Ocasio Cortez Disrespect the 9-11 Victims

 As we have discussed many times, a primary function  of any government  entity is to protect the lives and property of the citizens they serve. As we just passed the 25th anniversary of the  9-11 terrorist attacks, it has become  obvious that the American  political class has been  inept and lacking of empathy when  it comes to these attacks:


1)The Trump administration  recently  released a trove of CIA intelligence reports and  analyses that were compiled during the Clinton and  Bush administrations. Those reports and  analyses outlined the danger  of Islamic terrorism cells and potential for terror attacks years before the 9/11 attacks. And both administrations obviously did nothing to prevent the  worst attacks  on U.S. civilians ever:


  • Those CIA documents correctly predicted that Osama Bin Laden was hell bent on attacking the United States three years before the  9-11 attacks.

  • In 1998, one document and  analysis hypothesized that terrorists “may fly an explosive packed  airplane  into a U.S. city.”

  • The reports started in February, 1998 and ran to September 12, 2001.

  • The contents of these reports were reported  directly to Clinton and Bush  in  their daily CIA security briefings.

  • All of the  reports emphasized that Bin Laden was obsessed in executing an  impactful attack on United States interests and targets, either domestically or overseas.

  • Some of  the reports claimed that Bin Laden’s people were training to hijack airliners, plotting to take hostages, and doing dry runs to test U.S. airport security.

  • An August,  2001 report emphasized that “Bin Laden [was]determined to strike the U.S.” and “clandestine, foreign government, and media reports indicate bin Laden since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US.” 


Thus, the CIA apparently did  their  job: they assessed the  situation, came  to  the  correct conclusions of what Bin Laden was intent on doing, forwarded that information to both the Clinton and  Bush  administrations and both  administrations did nothing to prevent the attacks and the carnage. A massive and catastrophic failure of a basic government function:  protecting the lives  of the  citizens they oversee.


2)But this is not the only time that Clinton failed to  prevent the  future 9-11 terrorist attacks.  In 1996, the government  of Sudan offered to  arrest Bin  Laden and extradite him. 


But the Clinton administration  passed on the opportunity to take him  out  of  circulation which resulted in Bin Laden being kicked out of Sudan and he eventually landed in Afghanistan. There he was protected by the Taliban who  allowed him to plan and  then  execute the 9-11 attacks. Another failure to  protect the lives  of American citizens.


3)And while Bush  and Clinton failed  to act on extensive intelligence that the CIA had gathered using American taxpayer dollars, wasting those counter intelligence efforts,  the recent disgusting actions by two modern day politicians showed the disdain they have  for the people they are supposed to  represent and protect. 


At the 9-11 memorial service this past Friday to remember, mourn, and grieve on the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks, Congresswoman Ocasio Cortez and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani were insulting the memory of those  who  perished in the  attacks and the grieving families that were present at the memorial. I think my message to the Congresswoman summarizes what happened:


Congresswoman:

First, thank you for your time. Second, I am not a Trump or Republican voter so please don't go there. Okay, my question: will you be apologizing to the families that lost loved ones as a result of the 9-11 terrorist attacks in NYC because you found it perfectly okay to  laugh and joke with Mamdani while  the names of those who lost their lives were being read aloud and honored? I found your laughing despicable and abhorrent. Families were mourning the loss of their loved ones and you  somehow found  humor and levity during the mourning process. If you thought being there in  front of  saddened families and friends was funny you and Mamdani should have stayed home and made fun of the mourning and remembrance in private.  Thus, my original question: will you be issuing an apology for your insensitive/disrespectful behavior or have you no respect or kindness for the occasion  and those who lost  their lives?


Disgusting and inept behavior from past and current members of the American political class. Inability to recognize and act on clear cut  and specific terror signs long  ago, resulting  in 3,000  American lives perishing,  and disgusting  and disrespective behavior during the honoring of those 3,000 American lives that perished for no reason. Another sad chapter of  incompetence and disgusting  American  political class failure and behavior.


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Sunday, May 11, 2025

Trump and Musk Continue To Uncover Wasteful and Corrupt Government Spending - Part 1

We have  so often discussed the reality that the country and the Federal  government that operates it is quickly heading towards a fiscal cliff that, unless something drastic is done, will crash our economy, our savings, and our freedoms. The Federal government debt is quickly ascending to a whopping $37,000,000,000,000 ($37 TRILLION for those that do not want to count the zeroes). In fact, the case could probably be made that we as a nation have  already gone over that fiscal cliff but have just not hit the valley floor below and gone splat.


Despite the raging epidemic of Trump Derangement Syndrome among liberals and  Democrats, Trump, Elon Musk, and the members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have done a great job in a very short time identifying stupid, nonsensical, corrupt, and unneeded Federal government costs and expenses. 


No matter what you think of Trump as a person (and by the way, I have never voted for the man), his attacking of excess costs had to be done if we have any chance of getting outlandish and wasteful government spending under control. Otherwise, the dire results listed above and the hyperinflation that  would come with it would not be at all  pleasant.


Our first discussion on  the outlandish costs he identified were listed in a series of posts earlier this year beginning with the following:


https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2025/02/february-2025-by-numbers-part-2.html


Over the next series of posts we will  continue that discussion and identify the corruption, waste, and stupidity that the Federal government is guilty of when it comes to wasting taxpayer wealth.


1)The African Development Foundation is a government agency that is supposed to help the  economic development in Africa. Never mind that there are tens of millions of Americans today that are homeless, hungry, in need of drug addiction help, that cannot afford health insurance, and are having trouble finding good jobs, let’s spend taxpayer wealth to help African development. But as with  most government operations, the corruption and waste is very prevalent:


  • Mathieu Zahul, is the agency’s CFO.

  • When DOGE auditors turned up on his doorstep to see how efficiently taxpayer money was being spent, he refused to even  let them enter the offices of the agency.

  • It took U.S. Marshals to get them access.

  • Could it be his refusal was because it was eventually found out that tha Zahul was allegedly steering no bid contracts worth almost $1,000,000 to a friend in Kenya who, in turn, then wired money transfers back to Zahul.

  • Zahul had previously declared personal bankruptcy but still the Federal government said he could be trusted to correctly handle millions of taxpayer dollars.

  • Of the  nearly one million dollars steered towards his friend in Kenya, who was an old friend from previous  government positions in the Veterans Administration, $350,000 of the one million dollars was classified as “travel” expenses which were incurred during the COVID lockdown period when  no one was supposed to be traveling around.

  • Additionally, it was uncovered that Zahul had allegedly dropped $2 million in a Ghana bank without proper authorizations, all courtesy of the American taxpayer.


The sad part about this caper besides the wasting and corrupting of millions of taxpayer dollars is that whistleblowers were screaming about this corruption  back in  2021 but no one did anything about it.


2)Elon  Musk has been unstoppable so  far in  uncovering the wasting of taxpayer dollars. In a recent interview on Fox \News, he discussed just four of the major spending disasters he and his team have uncovered:


  • The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) gave a $132,000 contract to Mohammad Qaesem Halimi, a former member of the Taliban besides spending money on private jets and weapons which were stored at the USIP headquarters.

  • DOGE and Musk  found that $200 billion in COVID  funds were spent on suspicious expenditures including hotel rooms in Las Vegas (Granite School  District in Utah), the renting of a Major League Baseball stadium (Santa Ana Unified School District in California), an ice cream truck (also in California), and  other non-COVID expenses. 

  • DOGE reported that the Government Accountability office uncovered $162 billion in improper payments made by Federal government agencies in the last previous year which comes on top of the $236 billion in improper payments the year before.

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs had wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on useless DEI contracts across many Federal government organizations.


Hundreds of billions of dollars misspent on unnecessary and often criminal  enterprises that had nothing to do with making Americans’ lives better or safer.


3)DOGE also uncovered serious problems and  corruption with the disbursement of taxpayer money for unemployment insurance claims:


  • 24,500 people over the age of 115 years old claimed $59 million in job insurance benefits.

  • 28,000 kids between the ages of 1 and 5 claimed $254 million in unemployment benefits.

  • 9,700 people with birthdays over 15 years in the future, collected a whopping $69 million in  unemployment benefits.

  • A gentleman who claimed to have been born in 2154 claimed $41,000 in unemployment benefits.

  • Thus, in total, just these four types of examples cost the American taxpayer almost $400 million.


And who knows what other schemes are still going on that have not yet been uncovered. For perspective, consider that there  are currently about 770,000 homeless Americans  living on the streets or in shelters. That $400 million could have provided over 500 meals to each  of those 770,000 homeless Americans, a far better use of taxpayer wealth than the corruption that wasted it on the situations listed above.


4)The question of waste also should focus blame not only on the Federal agencies and bureaucrats that wasted taxpayer wealth but also on current and past members of Congress that allowed the waste to go  on for decades. It was only when Trump and  Musk started crawling around in the bureaucracy that the waste was laid bare and made known.


Consider a recent GAO report’s findings: “The GAO’s new report found there were $236 billion in improper payments in Fiscal Year 2023. Nearly 80 percent of Fiscal Year 2023 improper payments are concentrated in five areas: the Department of Health and Human Services’ Medicare and Medicaid programs; the Department of Labor’s federal pandemic unemployment assistance; the Department of Treasury’s Earned Income Tax Credit; and the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program loan forgiveness. Since 2003, cumulative improper payments have totaled $2.7 trillion.” 


Let’s repeat these GAO findings: for the past 21 years, $2,700,000,000,000 in improper payments were made and Congress did nothing to fix the leaking of this incompetence and criminality. This $2.7  trillion would have  theoretically made the current national  deficit over 7% smaller, a good first step in getting the government's  deficit spending under control.


So don't blame Trump and Musk for uncovering such wasteful  spending, it was sitting there the whole time, for at least two decades according to the GAO. And Federal government bureaucrats did nothing to stop the waste, often  enriching themselves with the wasteful spending, and Congress did nothing to stop it either.


That will do it for today: wasteful spending and corruption of taxpayer wealth from tiny government agencies to the halls of Congress totaling trillions of dollars. And unfortunately we are just getting started on the path to document waste.


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