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br> -- unsigned /p> p> BUTTER KNIFER br> Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s A Fat Little Butter Ball : /p>

Other than Sen. Frank Church, this "fat little butterball" has as much to do with the Intelligence "Failures" of 9-11 as any one lawmaker in the United States.

Acting on behalf of a female constituent married to a leftist Marxist Honduran who had "disappeared" some years earlier, the "Torch" (gas powered?) held Senate hearings showing the security services of this Central American republic somehow were supported by, and taught State Sponsored Torture with the aid and knowledge of, the American Central Intelligence Agency. I still recall the lefties becoming semi-orgasmic during Senate hearings as Senator Torricelli produced "Torture Instruction Manuals" supposedly (or indeed) published by the CIA .

The result of this political piling on were amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act which forbade American Intelligence operatives from consorting with foreign nationals with human rights abuses or criminal convictions on their records. (According to Sen. Kennedy, however, this should not prevent such criminals from being admitted to the United States on tourist or worker visas.)

Since we could now only consult with foreign "boy scouts" (oops - not if they're homophobes) or Kiwanis Club members; we were further blinded in HUMINT (Human Intelligence) activities already castrated by former CIA Director Stansfield Turner (a Carter appointee).

Other "attitudes" that came into the Intelligence community during this liberal inspired feeding frenzy included raising the bar of evidence necessary to obtain search warrants for FBI surveillance of foreign nationals within the United States. FBI lawyers and supervisors denied search warrants to its agents tracking Middle Eastern flight school students learning only how to "aim" airplanes in Minnesota and Florida flight schools.

p>When Torricelli asked Congress to investigate the "Intelligence Failures" of 9-11, I almost fell out of chair. He was the cause! Oh, former Sen. Lautenberg is just as bad, if not worse, when it comes to intelligence castration laws! br> --

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