No he didn't. He tried to get Sudan to deport bin Laddin to Saudi Arabia. He didn't order an assassination because there was no evidence at the time that the CIA asset had harmed Americans.
First off, that's not an accurate description of the intelligence reports
Only that it left out Bush's "now you've covered your ass" smear after he was given the point-blank warnings.
we knew nothing more than "Al Qaeda (which has attacked the US multiple times) wants to do so again." That's not actionable intelligence - that's not even a plan. It's aspirational alerts; obvious news to anyone that knew about the first WTC bombing, or the embassies, or any of the other attacks.
July 31, 2001 - The FAA issues another warning to airlines advising that "terror groups are known to be planning and training for hijackings." August 6, 2001 - President Bush receives a CIA report about al Qaeda and the possibility of airline hijackings. The warning is passed on to embassies and other overseas facilities. August 15, 2001 - The Pan Am International Flight Academy in Minnesota alerts the FBI to their suspicions about Moussaoui. He had paid for the training in cash and requested instruction on flying large jets, even though he had little experience. August 16, 2001 - The FAA issues an alert about "disguised weapons." Airlines are alerted the terrorists might use common objects such as cell phones or clothespins as weapons.
Specific intelligence about hijackings and using improvised weapons to take large planes. The Bush Administration could have easily put a couple FBI agents or federal marshals on flights with a few more on 747's. Instead we got "now you've covered your ass". If Clinton did this, wingnuts would have been calling for his execution for treason after he was impeached.
But even you were accurate, what do you think Bush should have done? Shut down all flights, forever? Put armed soldiers on every plane? Order all airlines to spend millions reworking their planes, based on rumors? Bill Clinton gets shit because he chose not to order a strike on Bin Laden when we knew where he was. Bush never had the opportunity.
Is your cognitive dissonance machine nuclear powered? In the same breath you want Clinton to go around assassinating people based on rumors (there was no evidence at the time that the CIA asset had harmed any Americans) but then pretend Bush couldn't have taken actions that Terri Schiavo could have come up with.
That and the FBI never bothering to examine the DNC servers. I keep having to point out to Russiagaters that this should bother them most of all, as the old telnet handle from Vlad Pootie Poot himself could be right there, hanging out in an exploit buried in firmware, if only Mueller could get off his incompetent ass and subpoena them...
Far right. This is the freak show that called the TPP the "gold standard" on trade treaties and campaigned on starting WWIII (shooting down Russian aircraft over Syria).
Mindless hatred of Clinton is a surefire "tell" of Russians and Russophiles.
A noun, a verb, and Russia. Well, facts didn't get in the way of the first group of McCarthyites, so I don't expect dumbfuck Russiagaters will stop any time soon.
Oh, and the fascist Atlantic Council, headed by rabidly ant-Russian ideologues who have ties to CrowdStrike, the same firm that 'decided" that Russia hacked the DNC servers, based on shitty or no evidence.
First off, Russiagate is the dumbest conspiracy theory of all time. The bulk of it rests on the idea that Putin stole an election by....revealing factual details on how Hillary stole an election (democratic primary). The rest is generally so bad it is dispositive, like pointing to Twitter trolls that spent a few thousand dollars in a $9 billion election, including some of their ads that were placed after Trump was president elect.
They're not only creating election turmoil, they're amplifying and exploiting the issues we have in this country. I believe they are partly to blame for all the left-right anger and hate.
Except this would play out just like that scene in Austin Powers. Dr. Evil Putin, or DEP for short, tells his minions about his new evil schemes, only for his henchmen to cough and tell him it's already happened:
DEP: "hack information on Hillary from the democrats, so the public will think she is a dishonest, corrupt politician."
Henchmen: "Ah, DEP, that has already happened. Americans, even members of her own party, think she is untrustworthy."
DEP: "Ok, lets spend a few thousand dollars on Tweets to sow discord."
Henchmen: "I don't know how to say this, sir....but have you been living under a rock? You've never heard of Rodney King? Republicans claim that the Clintons ran a heroin empire in Arkansas and ordered mob hits? Teabaggers that hung mannequins of Obama and burned him in effegy. America is DROWNING in discord, we don't have to lift a finger."
He got a reprieve for 2 years because even the Democrats weren't stupid enough to attack him right after 9/11
...Bush was warned point-blank that Al Queda was determined to strike the United States, and that they might use highjacked planes to do so. If Bill Clinton was so warned and then sat on his ass while the nation was under attack, he would have been impeached before he could return The Pet Goat to the school library.
The US National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation have been harvesting data such as audio, video, photographs, emails, and documents from the internal servers of nine major technology companies, according to a leaked 41-slide security presentation obtained by The Washington Post and The Guardian.
The program, codenamed PRISM, is considered highly classified and has never been made public before. The list of companies involved are the who's who of Silicon Valley: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple. Dropbox, though not yet an official part of the program, is said to be joining it soon. These companies have all willingly participated in the program, says the Post.
That article came out five years ago - and was about a five year old program. Google has been in bed with these guys for a loooong time.
It's like you copy-pasted a couple paragraphs from an official KGB "news release".
Your fascist butthurt in response to facts is noted.
Google's always had a cozy relationship with the Deep State, and has been helping the Pentagon develop software for drones used to blow up people that have never done a thing to the United States, in countries where war has not been declared. But the straw the breaks the camel's back for this guy, is giving the Chinese government a fraction of the capability enjoyed by the CIA/NSA/FBI?
And please, nobody come in with the line that Google's code is to make drones more accurate so they kill fewer innocent bystanders, only the targets of the strike (who are almost always innocent themselves). The U.S. military couldn't give the tiniest, greenest little shit about civilian deaths - like when it spent hours bombing a MSF hospital that it knew was a hospital, and went on bombing it as doctors were furiously calling to say they were bombing a hospital. That terror attack was carried out with a gunship, but drones have been used to carry out "double tap" strikes against survivors or first responders to the first drone strike, which is also terrorism.
Imagine a store that you buy a DVD from that also allows you to stream a copy of the same DVD from their servers. If you lose the DVD, or destroy it, you can stream the movie until they lose licensing rights. If you don't lose or destroy the DVD, you don't have to rely on this third party.
More like: you get a new computer and install Steam to download some games that you've previously purchased, only to find out that Valve has removed them.
They are deliberately written to be difficult to understand, and contain unnecessary verbiage to discourage people from digging into them to begin with.
That and the fact that the company will ignore it's own TOS the second the customer can use it to their advantage. Like when Microsoft ignored their own words that you could get a refund for Windows on an OEM machine if you disagreed with the license on Windows Refund Day.
Digital purchases do not imply that you own the content.
You can purchase a copy of Infinity War on bluray. That doesn't give you ownership of the copyright, it gives you ownership of the copy you've purchased. Your argument would apply to streaming services such as Netflix or Hulu, who have rotating libraries, but not for a copy that you have purchased.
Boilderplate denialist dumbfuckery. The point isn't that powerful storms haven't occurred in the past. The point is that warmer weather makes for more frequent and/or more powerful storms.
We can see how this is going to go, from John Deere claiming ownership of the software necessary to run tractors to Microsoft's subscription models with Windows 10 and Office 365.
First off, the poor wont be able to afford any functioning robots, even used ones. Cars have been around for well over a hundred years, but every poor person doesn't have a car. And if you can't pay the monthly subscription for your miracle bot, it ceases to function until you've paid up.
And how are poor people going to afford their robot fees when said robots take all the work that poor, unskilled workers can do?
If I were accused of being in league with the enemy, I think I might look at manufacturing examples of how I am not.
Translation: every piece of evidence that contradicts the Russiagate cult (i.e. Trump being far more confrontational with Russia than Obama ever was) is proof that the dumbest conspiracy theory of all time is correct.
Russigaters would still be calling Trump a "Putin Puppet" if he had ICBM's in the air on their way to Moscow. Because that's how cults work.
So your problem with Mexicans isn't that they're trying to sneak across the border and pick produce so you can enjoy it below the minimum wage, its that they aren't invading your home and taking it by force...
Or we paid for it.
...and then giving you $20 for it and calling it a fair sale.
Mexico wasn't interested in recognizing Texas when it seceded
You mean when the minority of white farmers Mexico allowed as guests refused to give up their slaves, when Mexico was against slavery. Fighting for the freedom to own people. Mexico was as "interested" in this as the U.S. would be if the minority Cuban population in Florida decided to "secede" against the interests of the rest of the state.
Spain settled California and began its genocide campaign against the natives
What are you blathering on about Spain for?
But Mexico kept California for a scant 20 years, having little control over the state, and long-time ranchers agitated for secession in the hopes of joining the US.
See above. See also, Hawaii.
But what does something that happened that happened 170 years ago have to do with today?
The fact that the descendants of invaders can fuck right off when smearing the descendants of native inhabitants as "illegal immigrants", thats what. And your fuckery against Mexico (and the rest of Latin America) hardly ended 170 years ago. NAFTA bankrupted millions of farmers and your War on Poor Drug Users has killed upwards of 30,000 people. Dozens of military "interventions" and plenty of CIA-backed coups of elected governments south of the Rio.
You should be paying these people trillions in reparations, and extraditing pretty much every living State Department and CIA official to stand trial. Not typing out arrogant ignorance with one hand while holding a tiki torch in the other.
Yeah, because Samsung hasn't changed the charging plug at all over the last fifteen years that they use with their phones. And Apple wasn't the first to drop the 3.5 jack, nor were they the last.
When poorly educated, non tech-literate people encounter a technology like Whatsapp for the first time, the experience feels so "high tech" and "revolutionary" to them, that they are psychologically incapable of understanding that stuff that is messaged to them over said new technology to them may be "malicious, and completely untrue" in nature.
....if the very first movie they see is 1978's Superman, and then jump off a building to see if they can fly?
Slashdot Mirror
And in a couple years, you can lecture him for taking on debt he couldn't afford to pay off. win/win
The history of being infinitely better for 95% of the population than capitalism - right up until the government is overthrown by the CIA.
No he didn't. He tried to get Sudan to deport bin Laddin to Saudi Arabia. He didn't order an assassination because there was no evidence at the time that the CIA asset had harmed Americans.
Only that it left out Bush's "now you've covered your ass" smear after he was given the point-blank warnings.
Like its close cousin Obamasplaining, Bushsplaining has a well known bias against facts:
August 6, 2001 - President Bush receives a CIA report about al Qaeda and the possibility of airline hijackings. The warning is passed on to embassies and other overseas facilities.
August 15, 2001 - The Pan Am International Flight Academy in Minnesota alerts the FBI to their suspicions about Moussaoui. He had paid for the training in cash and requested instruction on flying large jets, even though he had little experience.
August 16, 2001 - The FAA issues an alert about "disguised weapons." Airlines are alerted the terrorists might use common objects such as cell phones or clothespins as weapons.
Specific intelligence about hijackings and using improvised weapons to take large planes. The Bush Administration could have easily put a couple FBI agents or federal marshals on flights with a few more on 747's. Instead we got "now you've covered your ass". If Clinton did this, wingnuts would have been calling for his execution for treason after he was impeached.
Is your cognitive dissonance machine nuclear powered? In the same breath you want Clinton to go around assassinating people based on rumors (there was no evidence at the time that the CIA asset had harmed any Americans) but then pretend Bush couldn't have taken actions that Terri Schiavo could have come up with.
That and the FBI never bothering to examine the DNC servers. I keep having to point out to Russiagaters that this should bother them most of all, as the old telnet handle from Vlad Pootie Poot himself could be right there, hanging out in an exploit buried in firmware, if only Mueller could get off his incompetent ass and subpoena them...
Far right. This is the freak show that called the TPP the "gold standard" on trade treaties and campaigned on starting WWIII (shooting down Russian aircraft over Syria).
A noun, a verb, and Russia. Well, facts didn't get in the way of the first group of McCarthyites, so I don't expect dumbfuck Russiagaters will stop any time soon.
Straw man, non sequitur, math fail. Respectively.
American Exceptionalist: racist drug wars, police & COINTELPRO weren't problems....Russia pointing those things out was the problem.
Oh, and the fascist Atlantic Council, headed by rabidly ant-Russian ideologues who have ties to CrowdStrike, the same firm that 'decided" that Russia hacked the DNC servers, based on shitty or no evidence.
Weekly Standard, headed by Bill Kristol, trust fund baby who has been full of shit on pretty much every subject he's ever spoke on.
First off, Russiagate is the dumbest conspiracy theory of all time. The bulk of it rests on the idea that Putin stole an election by....revealing factual details on how Hillary stole an election (democratic primary). The rest is generally so bad it is dispositive, like pointing to Twitter trolls that spent a few thousand dollars in a $9 billion election, including some of their ads that were placed after Trump was president elect.
Except this would play out just like that scene in Austin Powers. Dr. Evil Putin, or DEP for short, tells his minions about his new evil schemes, only for his henchmen to cough and tell him it's already happened:
Henchmen: "Ah, DEP, that has already happened. Americans, even members of her own party, think she is untrustworthy."
DEP: "Ok, lets spend a few thousand dollars on Tweets to sow discord."
Henchmen: "I don't know how to say this, sir....but have you been living under a rock? You've never heard of Rodney King? Republicans claim that the Clintons ran a heroin empire in Arkansas and ordered mob hits? Teabaggers that hung mannequins of Obama and burned him in effegy. America is DROWNING in discord, we don't have to lift a finger."
Looks fine to me, check what your posting it as (drop down next to Preview button)?
Secret program gives NSA, FBI backdoor access to Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft data
That article came out five years ago - and was about a five year old program. Google has been in bed with these guys for a loooong time.
Your fascist butthurt in response to facts is noted.
Google's always had a cozy relationship with the Deep State, and has been helping the Pentagon develop software for drones used to blow up people that have never done a thing to the United States, in countries where war has not been declared. But the straw the breaks the camel's back for this guy, is giving the Chinese government a fraction of the capability enjoyed by the CIA/NSA/FBI?
And please, nobody come in with the line that Google's code is to make drones more accurate so they kill fewer innocent bystanders, only the targets of the strike (who are almost always innocent themselves). The U.S. military couldn't give the tiniest, greenest little shit about civilian deaths - like when it spent hours bombing a MSF hospital that it knew was a hospital, and went on bombing it as doctors were furiously calling to say they were bombing a hospital. That terror attack was carried out with a gunship, but drones have been used to carry out "double tap" strikes against survivors or first responders to the first drone strike, which is also terrorism.
More like: you get a new computer and install Steam to download some games that you've previously purchased, only to find out that Valve has removed them.
That and the fact that the company will ignore it's own TOS the second the customer can use it to their advantage. Like when Microsoft ignored their own words that you could get a refund for Windows on an OEM machine if you disagreed with the license on Windows Refund Day.
You can purchase a copy of Infinity War on bluray. That doesn't give you ownership of the copyright, it gives you ownership of the copy you've purchased. Your argument would apply to streaming services such as Netflix or Hulu, who have rotating libraries, but not for a copy that you have purchased.
Boilderplate denialist dumbfuckery. The point isn't that powerful storms haven't occurred in the past. The point is that warmer weather makes for more frequent and/or more powerful storms.
We can see how this is going to go, from John Deere claiming ownership of the software necessary to run tractors to Microsoft's subscription models with Windows 10 and Office 365.
First off, the poor wont be able to afford any functioning robots, even used ones. Cars have been around for well over a hundred years, but every poor person doesn't have a car. And if you can't pay the monthly subscription for your miracle bot, it ceases to function until you've paid up.
And how are poor people going to afford their robot fees when said robots take all the work that poor, unskilled workers can do?
Translation: every piece of evidence that contradicts the Russiagate cult (i.e. Trump being far more confrontational with Russia than Obama ever was) is proof that the dumbest conspiracy theory of all time is correct.
Russigaters would still be calling Trump a "Putin Puppet" if he had ICBM's in the air on their way to Moscow. Because that's how cults work.
So your problem with Mexicans isn't that they're trying to sneak across the border and pick produce so you can enjoy it below the minimum wage, its that they aren't invading your home and taking it by force...
You mean when the minority of white farmers Mexico allowed as guests refused to give up their slaves, when Mexico was against slavery. Fighting for the freedom to own people. Mexico was as "interested" in this as the U.S. would be if the minority Cuban population in Florida decided to "secede" against the interests of the rest of the state.
What are you blathering on about Spain for?
See above. See also, Hawaii.
The fact that the descendants of invaders can fuck right off when smearing the descendants of native inhabitants as "illegal immigrants", thats what. And your fuckery against Mexico (and the rest of Latin America) hardly ended 170 years ago. NAFTA bankrupted millions of farmers and your War on Poor Drug Users has killed upwards of 30,000 people. Dozens of military "interventions" and plenty of CIA-backed coups of elected governments south of the Rio.
You should be paying these people trillions in reparations, and extraditing pretty much every living State Department and CIA official to stand trial. Not typing out arrogant ignorance with one hand while holding a tiki torch in the other.
Yeah, because Samsung hasn't changed the charging plug at all over the last fifteen years that they use with their phones. And Apple wasn't the first to drop the 3.5 jack, nor were they the last.