Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] John O'Neill

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Jonathan King wrote:
>
> > On 12/4/06, Vern Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>
>
> > > Its too bad he was not taken more seriously perhaps something could 
> > > have been done before the attacks, what I am not sure anyone knows, 
> > > but perhaps.
> > >
> > > At any rate, I don't have time right now to look at the link 
> > > provided. What is the general gist of all this? I hope it is not part 
> > > of some big Bush plot to kill this guy off by having the terrorists 
> > > attack the World Trade Center.
> >
> >
> > No, but I think it does highlight the fact that terrorist attacks on 
> > the US were not really in the US mind-set before 9/11. I'm not sure 
> > I'm really interested in the argument about whether or not the Bush 
> > administration was worse than the Clinton administration was or that a 
> > Gore administration might have been, but I don't think there's a big 
> > question that the level of readiness wasn't there, but that this also 
> > wasn't completely a bolt from the blue.
>
>
>
> I watched the first four chapters.  It shows how personality conflicts 
> and power struggles within the FBI left us vulnerable to attack.  It 
> really doesn't have anything to do with Bush or Clinton as far as I can 
> tell. The point I am getting out of it is that men struggle to be the 
> "big man," the "head honcho," the "big cheese," and stopping terrorism 
> is a good way to show off and make yourself a bigger bigshot, but 
> helping someone else, even in your own agency, to stop terrorism is 
> giving them power and giving them a chance to be the big man.  First 
> rule in the pursuit of power: You don't want to help anyone to become 
> powerful unless they are totally behind you, promoting you and not 
> competing with you, and all that matters is personal power, not US 
> security.


Sounds like the adminstration at MU.

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Stephen Montgomery-Smith
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