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AL GORE STILL BITTER
-- Excerpt from "Today's Nuze" by Neal Boortz
Just over 5 years after storming out of politics and off the national stage,
Al Gore still can't let go. After being defeated in the 2000 election (yes, he
lost....fair and square,) the former Vice President has followed a pretty
consistent pattern. Every 6 months or so, the chip on Gore's shoulder grows too
large to bear....and he makes some sort of public statement bashing George
Bush. And so it is with
his latest public screed...and it concerns the NSA wiretapping that
President Bush approved...without a warrant.
Al Gore gave a speech yesterday ...condemning the wiretaps and saying they
crossed the line. If what's being reported is true, then he's right...it did
cross the line. Want a wiretap? Get a warrant. If the secret court that would
grant the wiretap takes too long, then fix the process...but get a warrant. But
in his speech, Al Gore also mentioned several things, one of which was this:
"Last week, for example, Vice President Cheney attempted to defend the
Administration's eavesdropping on American citizens by saying that if it had
conducted this program prior to 9/11, they would have found out the names of
some of the hijackers. Tragically, he apparently still doesn't know that the
Administration did in fact have the names of at least 2 of the hijackers well
before 9/11 and had available to them information that could have easily led to
the identification of most of the other hijackers. And yet, because of
incompetence in the handling of this information, it was never used to protect
the American people."
What a crock. In fact, the reason that information was never shared was because
of the ban on such sharing enacted by the Clinton administration's deputy
attorney general...Jamie Gorelick (no relation.) Because of this "wall," the
FBI was unable to tell the CIA or anyone else about, for instance, Mohammed Atta.
So that's a lie, and Gore knows it.
If that weren't enough, Gore then decided to lecture the Republicans on
corruption, saying: "Moreover, in the Congress as a whole-both House and
Senate-the enhanced role of money in the re-election process, coupled with the
sharply diminished role for reasoned deliberation and debate, has produced an
atmosphere conducive to pervasive institutionalized corruption. The Abramoff
scandal is but the tip of a giant iceberg that threatens the integrity of the
entire legislative branch of government." Oh really?
This from Mr. Fundraising-in-the-Buddhist-Temple himself? How many corruption
scandals were there in the Clinton administration? Talk about the pot and the
kettle.
Bottom line ... . I agree with much of what Gore had to say yesterday, but I do
have one question. When Al Gore was Vice President his boss (that would be Bill
Clinton) used a wiretap to spy on an American citizen named Aldrich Ames.
Clinton never sought nor did he receive a warrant for that wiretap. Why didn't
Al Gore have something to say about this?
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