(Not-So-)Great Wall and China
“Hindrocket” at Power Tools mentions one source of the excitement generated by the Able Danger story:
Some writers have speculated that the real purpose of the “wall” erected by Jamie Gorelick and others that prevented intelligence agencies from sharing information with prosecutors was to protect the Clinton administration. In particular, some have speculated that the Clinton administration feared that its illicit dealings with the Communist Chinese, which may have included illegal technology transfers to China and illegal contributions by the Chinese to Clinton’s campaigns, might be discovered by intelligence agencies. On this theory, the “wall” was erected to protect Clinton administration officials from prosecution, and Clinton himself from embarrassment should these dealings with China come to light.
He says he’s “skeptical” of it and links to a New York Post article that says “China ‘had something to do’ with the decision to restructure Able Danger.”
(Need a login for the NY Post? Try bugmenot.com.)
No conspiracy theory is too wacky, as long as a Clinton can somehow be brought into it. This has been axiomatic for the better part of a decade now.
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August 29th, 2005 @ 11:20
Forgive my ignorance - but would you please be so kind as to tell me what in the heck
“A sniff in the kortevar, that what you cry for, yeled? A prert up the cull, a prang on the dumpendebat?”
means?
lol
Thanks
August 29th, 2005 @ 19:19
From The End of the World News (Anthony Burgess, 1983):