Editor’s note: Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin is an online, subscription intelligence news service from the creator of WorldNetDaily.com – a journalist who has been developing sources around the world for the last 25 years.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. has not learned the real lessons of 9-11, say insiders in law enforcement and intelligence agencies who say domestic politics, not national security concerns, are driving anti-terror policies.
As a result, the U.S. is flirting with disaster and inviting an attack that could well rival Sept. 11, these sources tell Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, WorldNetDaily’s premium online intelligence newsletter.
For instance, a maverick FBI source points out that Osama bin Laden’s hijackers penetrated U.S. borders by taking advantage of the State Department’s “courtesy culture program.”
In 2001, State Department officials interviewed fewer than 3 percent of incoming Saudi citizens, and fewer than 1 percent of those were refused entry.
In the case of the 15 hijackers from Saudi Arabia, all the applications were incomplete or inconsistent and should not have been approved. In one case, where the applicant was asked for his destination, the hijacker simply wrote in “hotel.”
Yet, law enforcement and intelligence sources say, U.S. borders are no more secure than they were before Sept. 11, 2001, and immigration policies under the Department of Homeland Security do not seem designed to curb the continued threat of terrorism.
Neither are the skies any safer, they say.
For instance, flight attendants are still being trained to “cooperate” with terrorists if they take control of another flight, despite the fact authorities know the plane is likely to be used as a weapon of mass destruction.
Likewise, despite a congressional mandate to arm cockpit crews with firearms, pilots and co-pilots say the Transportation Safety Authority is actively discouraging them from doing so – insisting that they devote days to training on their own time and at their own expense.
The news last week that U.S. officials are probing the possibility al-Qaida sought to infiltrate a Texas company to contaminate ready-to-eat meals designated for the military in a plant employing illegal aliens illustrates further the lax security across the board at sensitive government, military and civilian facilities.
The plot was discovered only when a high-ranking al-Qaida operative provided information leading authorities to nearly a dozen illegal immigrants working for the McAllen, Texas-based Wornick Co., the largest supplier of MREs for the U.S. military. The firm that places the workers at Wornick has been charged with conspiring to make and use false employment eligibility verification forms.
U.S. Attorney Michael Shelby told a local newspaper: “Immediately after the liberation of Afghanistan from the Taliban in 2002, U.S. forces on the ground received specific information that links McAllen, Texas, by name and the Wornick facility by name to information within al-Qaida’s possession.”
The Department of Defense has a $67 million contract with Wornick to produce the meals. So far, no contaminated meals have been found.
Despite repeated warnings that illegal immigration and lax border policies leave the country vulnerable to another mega-terror attack, there seems to be no inclination by either Republicans or Democrats to make it a campaign issue in this presidential election year.
Indeed, both presidential candidates are pushing more of the same.
Attempts to add language to the Republican Party platform opposing Social Security benefits, driver’s licenses, federal student loans and in-state college tuition for illegal aliens was rejected by President Bush’s political operatives. Instead, it endorsed Bush’s broadly unpopular “guest worker” proposal – which critics call an amnesty plan for illegals. …”
Assuming the Bush plan is approved, millions of illegal aliens in the United States would be free from arrest and deportation, have access to tax-deferred savings accounts and Social Security credits, and get unrestricted travel to and from their home countries.
The goal of the program? As Homeland Security Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson explains: “Eliminating the fear of deportation will be an incentive. Undocumented aliens will tell you they often have trouble sleeping at night, and leaving for work each day, not knowing if they will make it home at the end of the day.'”
But do such policies help American citizens sleep any better at night?
G2B’s law enforcement officials, which include some Border Patrol officers, say it is not likely – especially when they find out about the other shoe about to drop on immigration policy.
It seems with the rising number of illegal aliens being welcomed into the country, some within the Bush administration are calling for bigger increases in legal immigration quotas so that the illegals don’t have an unfair advantage over the immigrants who follow the legal procedures.
The National Border Patrol Council, which represents all 10,000 of the Border Patrol’s non-supervisory agents, has called the Bush plan a “slap in the face to anyone who has ever tried to enforce the immigration laws of the United States.”
Yet no national debate takes place, say the law enforcement whistleblowers, because there is no organized political opposition as both major parties accept the dangers of non-enforcement of immigration laws.
“I now believe that both parties recognize that illegal immigrants represent a sizable voting bloc in the millions and neither presidential candidate will dare to lift a finger in a close election year,” said one top law enforcement officer who works in the Southwest.
Meanwhile, with little attention on the most insecure areas of American life, the U.S. remains severely vulnerable to a sneak attack by terrorists – even employing weapons of mass destruction.
Misguided concepts of “political correctness” and “multiculturalism” were cited by law enforcement sources as posing another obstacle to improving national security. They point out that all 19 of the Sept. 11 hijackers entered the U.S. on legal visas, even though at least 15 of them did not qualify under the law.
“Until we actually start enforcing the laws on the books, we’re not going to be any safer as a nation,” said one top U.S. law enforcement official.
One insider in the TSA pointed out that since Sept. 11, the Transportation Department has fined three air carriers for discrimination (citing a prohibition against detaining more than two Arab males for secondary questioning). He pointed to the series of disturbing incidents aboard an aircraft in July. Groups of 10-15 Arab men sitting in different sections of planes tested crew responses by suddenly heading for the cockpit, getting up en masse and removing bathroom mirrors adjacent to the cockpit in a procedure similar to what the military calls “probing.”
“All the security checkpoints at the airports are pretty much worthless,” said one law enforcement source. “With the borders wide open, with the cockpit crews unarmed, it’s only a matter of time before they hit us again and hard. We’re sitting on a powder keg.”
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