Busted: Gore Blamed for Failure to Kill Bin Laden by Bogus e-mail

Julia — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:47:48 +0000

Some interesting news was find out when White House emails “missing” were retrieved from Bush administration records. This reveals that top Bush Justice Department officials circulated a memo falsely connecting Al Gore with Osama bin Laden. The apocryphal Osama-Al Gore-Oliver North story was forwarded internally to administration personnel by Deputy Chief of Staff and Justice Counselor, David M.Israelite.

Millions of emails from the previous White House administration disappeared despite rules for preserving presidential records. This email, spreading a false rumor, has not been reported before by the records.

The Justice counselor forwarded the fictional story to colleagues in Attorney Gen. John Ashcroft‘s office on Jan. 23, 2002. With punch titles like “For you historians” and “Do you remember?” it describes a 1987 video clip from Col. Oliver North’s congressional testimony in the Iran-Contra hearings. One anonymous narrative – which first emerged in Nov. 2001 and has managed to survive repeated debunking – states that North warned US senators about Osama bin Laden but was ridiculed and shut down by then-Sen. Al Gore.

The story was infirmed by snopes.com.

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Secret Service: Obama threaten as much as Bush or Clinton

Julia — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:05:42 +0000

According to the Secret Service, President Barack Obama is facing as many threats to his life or security as the previous two presidents.

Ronald Kessler wrote in a recently published book that the threat has increased 400 percent since Obama, took office.In an interview with Wolf Blitzer in October he said that “There is about 3,000 threats a year under President Bush and now there are about 12,000.”

Thursday, Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan declared: “The threats right now in the inappropriate interest that we are seeing is the same level as it has been for the previous two presidents at this point.”

Rep. Bennie Thompson also said he was told the presidential threat level hasn’t changed under Obama administration.

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