Thank you for taking my call. This is an example of conservatives saying they will thing, and that is not presented. Bill at the end of the session. An omnibus bill is being debated, and the government will be shut down at midnight. The president wants the bill passed because he does not want to the reached at christmas time, where federal employees will not receive checks before christmas. You can understand the white position, but i understand the democrats position. You are two main rider. Shame on conservatives who just elected a brandnew conservative party to take over the next congress, and this conservative party that is going out will not same one coming in. Thank you, american voters. You have shown the world again how to pick a winner. Tweet here we go to pennsylvania, pat, who also opposes the measure. Are you there . Yes, i do. Yes. Yes. Make sure you meet your television and go ahead with your comment. We are going to have to move on, pat. We go to lexington, kentucky. Hel
To fully declassify a march 13, 2003, cable from c. I. A. Field officers to headquarters. This cable provides information about the Bush Administrations campaign to build public support for the iraq invasion. One part of that campaign was the repeated misleading suggestions that mohamed atta, leader of the 9 11 hijackers, had met with an iraqi intelligence official in prague. I received a letter from director brennan making public for the first time some of the cables contents. He quotes the cable as saying, theres not one u. S. Government counterterrorism or f. B. I. Expert that has said they have evidence or know that atta was indeed in prague. In fact, the cable say, the analysis has been quite the opposite. Close quote. Now, my statement just entered in the record, i also discuss recent revelations by the former head of a Czech Counterintelligence Agency about u. S. Pressure to confirm the report of that meeting. The American People deserve to know the full truth about this episode
That morning, i knew what it was like to belong to an Intelligence Agency that had been ringing the bell for many months about the plans to attack. Thatf us were devastated al qaeda operatives were able to carry out such horrific attacks in simultaneous fashion. While i remit or walking the halls of cia that day to ensure as many agencies as possible had left the building. They work through that day and that night in the following days in the following nights to piece together the clues as to what plans are underway to carry out more attacks. Their cia brothers and sisters who were dispersed around the globe many in dangerous environments to the same thing only 15 days after 9 11 under it was cia who put the First American boots on the ground in afghanistan. Less than two months after arriving the United States suffered its First Casualty what a 32yearold cia officer was killed in action november 25. Ciae his death, 20 other officers have lost their lives around the world the events of