Bush cancelled Clinton's antiterror directives on 2-13-01

>>>> Clinton's full directives:
President Clinton's Presidential Decision
Directives (Including Counterterrorism Policy (FEMA abstract and Federal Response Plan )21 Jun 95
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd/index.html
and Presidential Review Directives, National Science & Technology Council.

http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/prd/index.html
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Bush cancelled it here:

> http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nspd/nspd-1.htm <

SUBJECT: Organization of the National Security Council System
This document is the first in a series of National Security Presidential Directives. National Security Presidential Directives shall replace both Presidential Decision Directives and Presidential Review Directives as an instrument for communicating presidential decisions about the national security policies of the United States.

<snip> The National Security Act of 1947, as amended, established the National Security Council to advise the President with respect to the integration of domestic, foreign, and military policies relating to national security. That remains its purpose. The NSC shall advise and assist me
<snip> The NSC shall meet at my direction. When I am absent from a meeting of the NSC, at my direction the Vice President may preside.

<snip>
The Vice President and I may attend any and all meetings of any entity established by or under this directive.

<snip>
The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, at my direction and in consultation with the Vice President and the Secretaries of State, Treasury, and Defense, may establish additional NSC/PCCs as appropriate.
<snip>

The existing system of Interagency Working Groups is abolished.

<abolished>
The oversight of ongoing operations assigned in PDD/NSC-56 to Executive Committees of the Deputies Committee will be performed by the appropriate regional NSC/PCCs, which may create subordinate working groups to provide coordination for ongoing operations.

<abolished>
The Counter-Terrorism Security Group, Critical Infrastructure Coordination Group, Weapons of Mass Destruction Preparedness, Consequences Management and Protection Group, and the interagency working group on Enduring Constitutional Government are reconstituted as various forms of the NSC/PCC on Counter-Terrorism and National Preparedness.
<snip>

<more abolishments -- so we don't get info we don't want>
Except for those established by statute, other existing NSC interagency groups, ad hoc bodies, and executive committees are also abolished as of March 1, 2001,

<snip>
To further clarify responsibilities and effective accountability within the NSC system, those positions relating to foreign policy that are designated as special presidential emissaries, special envoys for the President, senior advisors to the President and the Secretary of State, and special advisors to the President and the Secretary of State are also abolished as of March 1, 2001, unless they are specifically redesignated or reestablished by the Secretary of State as positions in that Department.

This Directive shall supersede all other existing presidential guidance on the organization of the National Security Council system. With regard to application of this document to economic matters, this document shall be interpreted in concert with any Executive Order governing the National Economic Council and with presidential decision documents signed hereafter that implement either this directive or that Executive Order.

<SIGNED BY GEORGE W. BUSH 2-13-01>

The Bushies' slogan is "Anything but Clinton". The Clinton administration had a plan to go after Osama and Al Qaeda. The Bushies wanted no part of "anything Clinton". The Bushies slept, the terrorists crept, we wept--sucks doesn't it??

Considering what the Clinton team told them about the threat and how serious it was, how is this possible?

9/11 was the best thing to happen to the Bush administration

by stopping the attack.

You get it by Letting It Happen On Purpose.

no president could ask for a better mandate than that, especially after 'winning' the closest election ever

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They also demoted the position of counter-terrorism czar. Etc.

Looks more like they gutted the antiterrorism effort.

Why isn't the media jumping on this?

(yes, just rhetorical, I'm not expecting an answer)

to every forum, board and local news outlets that we can.

So, no plausible deniability here - he did it - knowing the dangers.

All the evidence is out there and it will be interesting
to see the staging of what the panel wants the American
public to know.

It is evident that Bob Kerry hasn't done his homework and
is constantly parading on Clintons mis doings.

The only thing I fault Clinton on is not knowing that Osama
was still working for Bush Sr.

much less the nation's "journalists"


It is clearly the place where they de-emphasized counter terrorism, but they could argue that the system they replaced it with was better than what Clinton was doing.

(This claim would not be true, but the media would take it at face value and drop the issue.)

good spot.

We need this information for the trials.

On the difference between the Clinton Administration and the smirking moron's:

... Comparing the two in the Washington Post, Lt. General Donald Kerrick, who had come from top posts on the Joint Staff and the Defense Intelligence Agency to manage Clinton's National Security Council staff and remained at the NSC nearly four months after Bush took office, noticed a big difference on the approach the two administrations took towards terrorism: "Clinton's Cabinet advisers, burning with the urgency of their losses to bin Laden in the African embassy bombings in 1998 and the Cole attack in 2000, had met 'nearly weekly' to direct the fight, Kerrick said. Among Bush's first-line advisers, 'candidly speaking, I didn't detect' that kind of focus, he said. 'That's not being derogatory. It's just a fact.'"

http://www.geocities.com/purplesage23/theyknew.html

BTW: Thanks to you, blm, and Sy Hersh I remembered Gen. Kerrick's name and what he said! Keep up the good fight, blm! Down with the BFEE!

I spread the Don Kerrick quotes around forums for months before the media caught on.

Remember when Begala finally saw it at MWO and used it on Crossfire? Woohoo!!! Those were some days, eh?