April 12, 2004, More Old News...
It seems that before 11 September 2001, not everybody in Washington was all that interested in doing "everything they could" to follow up on those bin Laden related investigations (you know-- the "non-specific ones", 70 or so of them, mentioned in that August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing that was utterly worthless because it didn't have flight numbers). Apparently that's true, at least according to this Greg Palast and David Pallister piece in the Guardian from November.... 2001.
While the article acknowledges the usual restraints for political reasons associated with investigations on ANY Saudis, said restraints were significantly stepped up once the Bush Administration took office. It would appear (it was actually more widely reported closer to September 11th than now, interestingly) that there were, in fact, numerous political restraints on investigation. IIRC, some of those restraints were NOT actual ordinary restrictions on American law enforcement for anyone EXCEPT Saudis. Nonetheless, these became the basis of complaints by the Justice Department on why law enforcement needed to be freed up from restraints to protect us from "terrorists"-- such as terrorists who own almanacs, or perform late term abortions, or want to grow medicinal pot-- you know-- terrorists. The Congress, not wanting to be bothered with stupid things like the Constitution-- quickly gave the Justice Department whatever it ased for. To his credit (it kills me to say this), Ashcroft and company haven't been nearly as bad with the old Patriot Act as they could be. Then again, we have had U.S. citizens incarcerated for years now without counsel, trial or even charge. But I digress...
The President swore that if he only knew that a threat was imminent, he would have moved mountains. But perhaps, not when those mountains came to (the countrymen of) Mohammed?
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