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WARBLOGGER WATCH
Monday, June 03, 2002
Byron York has no less than three articles at National Review Online related to intelligence failures prior to the World Trade Center attacks. One of them focuses on James T. Caruso's Congressional testimony last October, which York's subhead says "appears to be intentionally deceptive." The article's headline is "The Clintonian FBI."
Deception = Clinton, it seems, wherever it is found and to whomever it may be attributed. Making the choice of words doubly ridiculous is a December 2001 article by York highlighting the terrible relationship Clinton had with his FBI Director, Louis Freeh. Cribbed largely from Elsa Walsh's New Yorker article, the relevant section details how Freeh, dissatisfied with the lack of cooperation he was getting from Clinton on the Khobar Towers bombing, passed information on the case to former President George Herbert Walker Bush, who used it in secret discussions with the Saudis. (Freeh then sat on his hands, having "decided to wait for a new Administration.") This bit of diplomatic privateering was indeed "deceptive" on a nearly treasonous scale, but it was Clinton who was being deceived.
York follows up on his own story in this article, which somehow fails to mention Clinton, though the author does suggest in this one that Democrats have a "hypocracy problem" pertaining to terrorism gotchas. They're not the only ones. posted by roy edroso6:36 PM
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