Last week, while cleaning out some boxes, I found an old newspaper that was used to wrap some glassware. I started reading; it was like taking a trip in a time machine. Here's the headline, page one, above the fold, culled from a story by Ron Fournier of the AP dated May 2nd, 2001 - in the "Free Lance Star" from Fredericksburg, VA. RESETTING THE SIGHTS - Bush wants missle defense - President says current ABM treaty 'enshrines past' . Intrigued, I read on. This was billed as Bush's first major defense address, given, coincidently, at the National Defense University in DC. The first paragraph of this article is truly chilling - we can clearly see W "on message" months before 9/11. Read on Kossacks, these links are oh so juicy.
May 2, 2001- "President Bush committed the United States yesterday to building a shield against ballistic missle attack, warning that hostile nations like Iraq have replaced the Soviet Union as "the most urgent threat" to America and its allies."
Here's the link to that speech -
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/05/20010501-10.html
Here's another delicious snippet: BUSH- "Today, I'm announcing the dispatch of high-level representatives to Allied capitals in Europe, Asia, Australia and Canada to discuss our common responsibility to create a new framework for security and stability that reflects the world of today. They will begin leaving next week. The delegations will be headed by three men on this stage: Rich Armitage, Paul Wolfowitz, and Steve Hadley; Deputies of the State Department, the Defense Department and the National Security staff. Their trips will be part of an ongoing process of consultation, involving many people and many levels of government, including my Cabinet Secretaries. These will be real consultations. We are not presenting our friends and allies with unilateral decisions already made. We look forward to hearing their views, the views of our friends, and to take them into account."
Yeah, well, we know how that all worked out.
In that this whole presidency has been scripted from top to bottom, I flipped through the paper for what else was going on back then.
On page A6 of the same newspaper another AP story, "FBI director Freeh stepping down early". Very interesting - remember, he resigned amid investigations of the spy Robert Hanssen, but that's not all folks. No siree.
Check out this link from March 3rd, 2001 by a Wes Vernon -warning it is a wing nut site-
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/3/2/185219.shtml.
This is some of that propaganda (sic) article:
"Reed Irvine, chairman of Accuracy in Media (AIM), confronted Carl Rove, senior adviser to the president, about Freeh. Rove replied that the FBI director had the president's confidence and would remain, "unless we find he does something really bad." "Well, here's something 'really bad,' " Irvine said as he presented Rove with a copy of his AIM report. That document, titled "Free Us of Freeh," contained a list of "really bad" things attributed to the director, including:"
and then there is a list of sexed-up neocon gripes.
Mind-blowing.
This "article" continues: "The "Freeh must go" movement among conservatives is getting additional impetus from America's Survival Inc. That group's president, Cliff Kincaid, says the ability of an FBI agent such as Hanssen to spy for Russia for 15 years without getting caught "may lie in FBI Director Louis Freeh's policy of working with the Russians for the last several years and turning the bureau's attention to global and U.N. issues that have spread its resources thin."
Oh and BTW, Cliff Kincaid is the presently the editor of the AIM report and has worked for AIM since 1978 according to his own words.
http://www.aim.org/aim_column/2204_0_3_0_C/
Here's an excerpt of his Redd Irvine tribute:
KINCAID- "I came aboard in 1978, when I graduated from college and completed a journalism internship under conservative author M. Stanton Evans. Part of that involved doing an internship with a Washington-based group, which turned out to be AIM. "
So much for Accuracy in Media, huh?
This is classic Rove, I mean a textbook example of his patented tactics! So I got to thinking, did Karl take Louis Freeh down?
Keep digging Kossacks, the truth will set us free.
"Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive" -Sir Walter Scott