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Monday, September 04, 2006
GOP Congress blocked Clinton push for anti-terror legislation
by John in DC
CNN, July 30, 1996 http://www.cnn.com/US/9607/30/clinton.terrorism/
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
emerged from the meeting and said, "These are very controversial
provisions that the [Clinton] White House wants. Some they're not
going to get."
.....[Hatch] also said he had some problems with the president's
proposals to expand wiretapping.
So Bill Clinton, rather than just breaking the law as Bush did (then
again, perhaps this is why Bush broke the law - he knew from history
that the Republicans controlling the congress would oppose his efforts
to expand wiretapping), decided to go to the Republican congress in
1996 and ask them for increased authority to do more eavesdropping in
order to stop the terrorists - stop September 11.
Senior Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, one of the GOP's top picks for
the Supreme Court and a GOP committee chair, objected.
The Republicans stopped President Clinton from getting all the tools
he needed to stop the next September 11 - well, no, actually they
opposed giving President Clinton all the tools he needed to stop the
actual September 11. http://www.cnn.com/US/9607/30/clinton.terrorism/
Could September 11 have been stopped if the GOP had given President
Clinton the tools he requested to stop Osama and Mohammad Atta from
killing 3,000 people in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington?
Maybe we need to ask the Republicans up for re-election why they
wanted to appease the terrorists?
President Clinton urged Congress Tuesday to act swiftly in developing
anti-terrorism legislation before its August recess.
"We need to keep this country together right now. We need to focus on
this terrorism issue," Clinton said during a White House news
conference.
But while the president pushed for quick legislation, Republican
lawmakers hardened their stance against some of the proposed
anti-terrorism measures.
There's even an audio clip of President Clinton practically begging
the Republicans to give him the tools he needed to stop Osama and the
terrorists.
http://www.cnn.com/US/9607/30/clinton.terrorism/clinton.terror.wav
Trent Lott said no.
Orrin Hatch said no.
Do these men really deserve to run the Congress during a time of war?
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They've already proven that they don't because they're un-American.
The only thing they're for is the Republican Party.
Harry
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