Olbermann: Document Refutes Giuliani's 9/11 Claims

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October 25, 2007 - Countdown w/ KEITH OLBERMANN

Does anyone know why and by whose decision the testimony originally was going to be held until after the '08 elections? Was it to keep Guiliani and others in a more favorable light?

When Republicans couldn't prevent executive action, President Clinton:

-- Developed the nation's first anti-terrorism policy, and appointed first national coordinator.

-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up 12 U.S. jetliners simultaneously.

-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up UN Headquarters.

-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up FBI Headquarters.

-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up the Israeli Embassy in Washington.

--Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up Boston airport.

-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up Lincoln and Holland Tunnels in NY.

-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up the George Washington Bridge.

-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up the US Embassy in Albania.

-- Tried to kill Osama bin Laden and disrupt Al Qaeda through preemptive strikes (efforts denounced by the G.O.P.).

-- Brought perpetrators of first World Trade Center bombing and CIA killings to justice.

-- Did not blame Bush I administration for first World Trade Center bombing even though it occurred 38 days after they had left office. Instead, worked hard, even obsessively -- and successfully -- to stop future terrorist attacks.

-- Named the Hart-Rudman commission to report on nature of terrorist threats and major steps to be taken to combat terrorism.

-- Tripled the budget of the FBI for counterterrorism and doubled overall funding for counterterrorism.

-- Detected and destroyed cells of Al Qaeda in over 20 countries

-- Created a national stockpile of drugs and vaccines including 40 million doses of smallpox vaccine.

-- Robert Oakley, Reagan Counterterrorism Czar says of Clinton's efforts "Overall, I give them very high marks" and "The only major criticism I have is the obsession with Osama"

-- Paul Bremer, Bush's Administrator of Iraq disagrees slightly with Robert Oakley saying he believed the Clinton Administration had "correctly focused on bin Laden. "

-- Barton Gellman of the Washington Post put it best, "By any measure available, Clinton left office having given greater priority to terrorism than any president before him" and was the "first administration to undertake a systematic anti-terrorist effort."


Another important point: Republicans didn't know terrorism existed until they found out they could get votes from it:

Clinton sent legislation to Congress to TIGHTEN AIRPORT SECURITY. (Remember, this is before 911) The legislation was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the airlines.

Clinton sent legislation to Congress to allow for BETTER TRACKING OF TERRORIST FUNDING. It was defeated by Republicans in the Senate because of opposition from banking interests.

Clinton sent legislation to Congress to add tagents to explosives, to allow for BETTER TRACKING OF EXPLOSIVES USED BY TERRORISTS. It was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the NRA.

Your post gave a great deal of information, some of which I had already known, but some of which I had not known. It is great that Wayne Barrett put out this information about Guiliani. We need to see and hear many more stories about this. As a result of what Barrett uncovered we can see that Guiliani is at least just as incompetent as George W. Bush.

The Democrats need to use this information for two reasons. First, to clear up the misinformation Republicans are trying to put out about Bill Clinton. Second, to show just how poorly a job Guiliani did in dealing with terrorism in New York. Guiliani, himself, did not prepare enough in order to prevent 9/11. The people should be able to see just how little Guiliani did and how incompetent he was and still is. We need to see much more of this story.

Supported an Israeli model that might have prevented 9/11 attacks. The airlines didn't want to pay more for security so their lobbyists got this beaten every time in the Republican congress. Then they blamed Clinton for 9/11...

Look at my name.

This is exactly the kind of boot-up-their-ass reporting that NEEDS to be done by every media outlet. It's nonsense that Ghouliani acts like he's some kind of terrorism expert. Excellent.

Giuliani and his amazing marketing team know facts don't always matter as much as image and repetition of what the candidate wants to have been true. The DVD Giuliani Time examines how he and his team have distorted his record throughout his career. Thank goodness this excellent reporter is keeping the heat on.

:spray: just kidding :spray:

and even more delusional about history. POS plain and simple!