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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The Continuing Hypocrisy of the American Political Class: Presidential Voting Fraud

 As we have  discussed many times in this post there is no set of Americans more full of hypocrisy than the American political class:

• While millions of Americans are forced to live with the idiocy that are Obama Care insurance policies, American politicians treat themselves to world class medical care and health insurance with taxpayer money, getting far better health care than the taxpayers that pay for politicians’ health care.

• While just about every American was forced to shelter in place and wear masks when out in public during the height of the covid crisis, American opticians were going about their normal lives, getting their hair done, getting their nails done, going out to dinner without using masks, taking vacations trips that regular Americans were forbidden to take,  etc.

• While Americans go  to jail for insider stock trading, American politicians can enrich themselves via insider information without fear of jail times.

This is obviously just a partial list of their ongoing and blatant hypocrisy. The latest example of their hypocrisy was pointed out in a recent Wall Street Journal article. Obviously, most people  know that there was a riot and invasion of the Capitol building on January 6, 2021 when supposed Trump supporters protested the corrupt election of Joe Biden.

Now what is becoming known is that the crowd in the building was not only Trump supporters. We now know that Antifa gang members, Black Lives Matter folks, undercover FBI and other government agents and who knows who else were among the crowd. Thus, who knows who was causing the problems.

But Democrats and  liberals have gone crazy over this incident, acting like it never happened before, having biased Congressional hearings, staffing the hearing committee investigating the incident with Trump hating Congress people, calling on only selective witnesses, falsifying documents, destroying documents, etc. They have acted like the country was about to be overthrown.

And yet when  Democrats,  liberals and their supporters did similar acts of aggression in the past, Democrats were mute in their response. No outrage, no Congressional hearings, etc., their hypocrisy is overwhelming given the history of left wing, liberal groups attacks on government elections, buildings and institutions:

• For example, 2005, 31 Democrats of the House of Representatives voted to object that Ohio’s Presidential electoral votes were being awarded to George W. Bush despite Bush beating John Kerry by 118,601 votes in the state,

• And yet in 2021 Democrats cried foul when Trump investigated the possibility of voiding electoral votes for Biden based on voting fraud allegations.

• In 2005, Congressman John Conyers went on the House floor and claimed that “electronic machines transferred” votes from Kerry to Bush.

• He want on to say that some Ohio precincts had more votes than registered voters, some voters cast more than one vote, and that voting machines could be accessed remotely and vote totals changed,

• But when Trump made the exact same accusations in 2020, Democrats went wild with hypocrisy, ignoring the fact that they made the same accusations 15 years before.

• Many of the same people that accused Bush of voting fraud are still in Congress and ignored their hypocrisy when Trump made the same arguments they did in 2005, e.g.  Maxine Walters, Ed Markey, Frank Pallone, Conyers, and others.

• At that time Pelosi supported the baseless Democrat allegations of voter fraud by saying that “[voting] debate is fundamental to our democracy,” and warned Republicans not to “talk about this as a conspiracy theory,” and argued the accusations were “about the Constitution.”

• When Trump basically said the exact same thing what Pelosi said in 2005, she ignored her hypocrisy and instituted a Congressional  committee to investigate not the voting fraud realities but investigate Trump.

• Biden has not helped the situation by continuing the hypocrisy that Pelosi and others set out in 2005 by accusing those that doubted the results of the 2020 election that they were “thwarting the will of the people” and that he “would not stand by and watch the will of the American people be overturned by wild conspiracy theories and baseless evidence-free claims of fraud.”

• And yet I would bet that hypocritical Biden did not speak similar words when members of his party did the exact same thing in 2005.

And while Democrats in 2021 got rightfully upset that thousands of Trump supports, Antifa members Black Lives Matter folks, and undercover government agents invaded the Capitol building, these same Democrats were silent when left wing liberal groups planted bombs in the Capitol and Selective Service locations in the past or when liberals attacked dozens of Federal buildings during the George Floyd riots.

I am not defending the Trump incident in January, 2021 or the Democratic uproar against Bush in 2005. In essence they are the exact same thing from a hypocrisy perspective: in 2005, the Democrats went wild on their voting fraud accusations, not to protect the Constitution and our democracy but to get their guy elected president. In 2021, the exact same thing happened but the roles were reversed.

The bottom line is all members of the American political class do  not usually care about freedom, honest elections, or hypocrisy: they are only in it for themselves, be it insider trading, getting their hair and nails done while regular Americans go hairy and live with unadorned nails, or when they live by the old adage, ‘do as I say, not as I do.” They all stink.

Personal opinion: I  am a professionally trained statistician. I looked at the election results of the 2020 Presidential election, and in my statistical opinion, the election was rigged and Biden was not elected to the Presidency, he was installed as President. I laid out my statistical, and other, analyses out in about a dozen posts starting with this post:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2020/11/election-2020-part-1-first-invalid.html

This post and others lay out the statistical  discrepancies, the mathematical impossibilities, and other irregularities in the voting results. These posts also discussed the documented cases of eye witnesses seeing the voting results being manipulated, deleted, falsely submitted. 

Since that time, I have accumulated over 700 news articles of voting fraud instances where people have been arrested, prosecuted, and found guilty of voter fraud. I would be  more than happy to share any of these articles with anyone who is interested. In my mind, given the numbers, the results, the eye witness accounts, and prosecution of voter fraud across the country, the 2020 Presidential election was a mess of fraud, deceit and cheating.

By the way, as I have  made clear many times in this blog, I did not vote for Trump in 2020 or 2016, I have never voted for a Republican for President, and when I was a resident of New Jersey I was a registered member of the Democratic party for a time. So please, no accusations that I am a disgruntled Trump voter, I am a disgruntled American voter who is convinced that there was massive voter fraud in 2020 and that we are still being led by some of the most hypocritical people in this country, the American political class.

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November,2017, Part 3,Political Class Insanity: The Clintons Get Rich, Hillary Ignores Security Protocols, and Obama Builds His Temple

It is the beginning of another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Note: we realize that November, 2017 has not started yet but trust me, we have so much political class insanity to get to this month that we are going to start a few days early in order to get it all in:

1) It is been pretty clear for some time that the Clinton Foundation charity organization was simply a tool for the Clinton crime syndicate to use to enrich themselves. Typically, an entity or government would make its needs known to Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State, those needs would be met after that entity or country donated to the Clinton Foundation and usually allowed Bill Clinton to give a speech for them for which he usually received hundreds of thousands of dollars. Pretty neat shakedown operation.

Now some people have claimed that the Clintons enriching themselves, while seeedy and greedy, could be overlooked because their charity and foundation did such great humanitarian deeds around the world. Nice try, but no cigar, according to Peter Hasson writing for the Daily Caller website on September 16, 2017:

• According to IRS tax filings, the Clinton Foundation spent just under $91.3 million in 2014 according to their tax returns that year.
• However, only 5.7% of that was actually spent helping out humanity since of the $91.3 million that they spent, only $5.2 million actually went to charitable grants.
• The remaining 94.3% or $86.1 million was spent on employee salaries, employee benefits, and “other expenses.”
• “Other expenses” comprised over $50 million.
• A whopping $851,000 was spent on “professional fundraising expenses.”
• According to the article, “Despite taking in an additional $30 million in 2014, the Clinton Foundation spent 40 percent less on charitable grants in 2014 than in 2013. Even as it slashed charitable spending, the foundation increased the amount spent on salaries, employee benefits and compensation by $5 million in 2014. The foundation also spent $5 million more “other expenses” in 2014.”
• In addition, the work that the foundation was originally famous for, distributing drugs to poor people in poor countries is no longer done, according to Sean Davis at The Federalist, “the bulk of the charitable work lauded by the Clinton Foundation’s boosters — the distribution of drugs to impoverished people in developing countries — is no longer even performed by the Clinton Foundation. Those activities were spun off in 2010and are now managed by the Clinton Health Access Initiative, a completely separate non-profit organization.”

How does the Clinton Foundation’s use of donations compare to other charities? According to the Charity Navigator website, an organization that tracks and evaluates charities, the Clinton Foundation’s numbers are pathetic: “Our data shows that 7 out of 10 charities we've evaluated spend at least 75% of their budget on the programs and services they exist to provide. And 9 out of 10 spend at least 65%. We believe that those spending less than a third of their budget on program expenses are simply not living up to their missions. Charities demonstrating such gross inefficiency receive 0 points and a 0-star rating for their Financial Health.” 

Since the Clinton Foundation only spends about 6% on good deeds, they would fall into the “simply not living up to their mission” category. So sad and insane that people like the Clintons could get so personally rich by leveraging their time in public service and political office, in this case using the cover story of a charity to make themselves rich beyond most people’s dreams.

2) I thought it was obscene when George W. Bush spent half a billion dollars to build his Presidential library. No one deserves that kind of tribute, especially a President whose tenure was nondescript at best. But according to a new report, Bush’s library expenditure looks absolutely miserly, according to a recent report on the American Outlook website:

• Barack Obama’s Presidential library will likely need a $1.5 BILLION endowment to keep it operating.
• That is the estimate the Obama architectural team of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien came up with to satisfy Obama’s desires.
• The article confirmed that the Obama Presidential library effort will indeed cost three times more than what used to be Bush’s obscene cost.
• The Obama effort will contain not only a Presidential library but also a second building that will serve as a museum dedicated to the lives of Barack and Michelle Obama.

Seriously, $1.5 billion to pay tribute to a President who:

• Almost doubled the national debt by adding a whopping $10 trillion to the debt burden of every American?
• Weaponized the IRS to deny First Amendment rights to millions of Americans?
• Illegally and immorally entered the Libyan civil war without Constitutional or legal standing, resulting in the destruction of a foreign country and turning it into a terrorist haven?
• Spend over $800 billion on an economic stimulus program that failed miserably on every measure except the reality that his political cronies and supporters got rich off of taxpayer funding?
• Put together the worst piece of legislation ever passed by Washington, Obama Care, and then lied about so many aspects of the law in front of every American?
• Lied about the real story of Benghazi, blaming the disaster and deaths of our Americans on an unknown video?

We could on and on about the failure of his Presidency but let’s stop here since just these few failures listed above prove that he does not deserve a $1.5 million tribute to his failures. Fortunately, I will not be paying for it.

3) As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton and her staff had the national security requirement to ensure that government communications stayed secret and held close to the vest in order to protect the interests, lives, and borders of the United States. There are laws and government regulations in place to help facilitate that need for secrecy and security.

Of course, we now know that Hillary Clinton and her staff treated those laws and regulations as mere suggestions, allowing top secret documents and plans to feed through and unsecured computer server in her house, a server that was likely hacked by more than one country around the world. As of yet, she and her abusers of government documents and plans have not faced the penalties that they should face.

To show you how careless they were with our country’s secrets, consider the highlights from an October 20, 2017 article that appeared on the Self Reliance Central website:

• Judicial Watch recently announced that that the State Department has admitted that 2,800 State Department documents from the Hillary Clinton State Department days ended up on an unsecured personal computer of former Congressman Anthony Weiner.
• Weiner used to be married to Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin.
• Remember also that Weiner recently pleaded guilty to sexting with an underaged girl.
• Abedin used a non-secure and non-State Department email account for government business, routing it through Clinton's unsecured home email server.
• This information came to light after Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against the State Department when the Department refused to comply with a 2015 Freedom Of Information Act request which sought, “All emails of official State Department business received or sent by former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin from January 1, 2009 through February 1, 2013 using a non-‘state.gov’ email address.”
• Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch president summed up the transgressions: “This is a disturbing development. Our experience with Abedin’s emails suggest these Weiner laptop documents will include classified and other sensitive materials. When will the Justice Department do a serious investigation of Hillary Clinton’s and Huma Abedin’s obvious violations of law?”
• The article reminds us that Clinton attempted to delete 33,000 emails that were on her non-government server and that the State Department is still processing 100,000 emails Clinton failed to disclose when she was asked for them.

So, the Federal government, via the Clinton State Department, allowed almost 3,000 government documents to end up on the unsecured laptop of an admitted child sexual predator. And sher wanted to be President, ha!

That will do it for today’s political class insanity. Much more to come as Washington and other politicians continue to amaze us with their greed, ineptness, and stupidity.

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