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RUSH: Kathleen in Canton, Michigan, welcome to the EIB. Are you 12 years old, am I reading that right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi, Kathleen, well, it\u2019s great to have you with us today.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have a question — it\u2019s great to speak with you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My question is, when Clinton was in power, there were multiple terrorist attacks on the United States. Why didn\u2019t he try and stop them?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, they did in their own way. They tried to use the legal system, but they were never really serious about doing anything about preventing future attacks. They never responded militarily to attacks, until late in the term, second term, during the impeachment scandals. I\u2019ll tell you what, I have to ask you to hold on, I misread the clock when I took your call and I thought I had a minute more than I do. Can you hold on for a couple of minutes?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good, thank you, because I\u2019ll be happy to try to explain this to you. Twelve years old from Canton, Michigan. You\u2019re not in school today?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Home-schooled.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh. Okay. Home-schooled. Explains a lot.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

All right, back to Kathleen, 12-year-old Kathleen in Canton, Michigan. Yours is actually a very good question. Why didn\u2019t the Clintons do anything about terrorism when there were attacks on this country during both terms of the Clinton presidency. But before I answer that, I\u2019m curious, where did this question come from in your mind? What have you been doing lately, studying, that\u2019s spawned this question today?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019ve been doing a lot in my history book and I was reading about Clinton and how there were some terrorist attacks but they didn\u2019t say exactly what they did about them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, the administration did a couple of things. The first World Trade Center attack in 1993, there was not much done on that. However, you may have read about, I don\u2019t know, sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. He\u2019s an Egyptian sheik, his nickname is the blind sheik and he and some cronies, one of whom I think was involved in the \u201993 blast, evolved a plan to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge and some tunnels and so forth. He and one of his buddies, Ramzi Yousef, were prosecuted by the US attorney\u2019s office in Manhattan and guilty verdicts were secured, and both are in jail for life. So the Clinton administration, Kathleen, looked at terrorism as a criminal enterprise, and they dealt with it legally. But they did a couple of things in the process that created real, real havoc. In the process of using the legal system, you have to impanel grand juries to hear evidence, and the evidence that was presented, much of it was classified intelligence data. <\/p>\n

Now, grand jury testimony is secret. It cannot be revealed. It cannot be published. It cannot be legally released to anybody, including other intelligence agencies. So, as an example, if the FBI is called in to the grand jury to give evidence against a potential terrorist, then the CIA and nobody else could know about it, and this was referred to as ‘the wall\u2019 that was built by the Clinton administration and associate attorney general by the name of Jamie Gorelick that actually prevented intelligence agencies in the government from learning what each other knew, since terrorism was being prosecuted legally rather than fought on battlefields on the home grounds of terrorists. Now, why was this? Well, who knows. It probably was just the fact that the Clinton people are Democrats and did not have a serious world view of terrorism, much like Democrats have today. <\/p>\n

John Edwards in his debate, the press conference performance last week, (paraphrased) ‘There\u2019s really no war on terror. Terrorism is just something that happens, it\u2019s out there. We gotta be prepared to deal with it, but to go to war against them is silly because there isn\u2019t one and we ought not convince the American people.\u2019 They\u2019re trying to create an atmosphere people call a 9\/10 atmosphere where we can pretend that life in America is just as it was before 9\/11. Well, in doing that we had the World Trade Center attacks. We had Americans killed all over the world in Al-Qaeda bombings. One of the popular theories to explain why the Clinton administration didn\u2019t do anything about it, other than legally, which very few people saw. But if you go to war or if you respond to terrorist attacks militarily, everybody is going to see that, and the Clinton administration, not big fans of the military. The military to them was a social playground, where they could try the ‘don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u2019 policy, women in combat, gays in combat, and this sort of thing. <\/p>\n

The theory is that the Clinton administration just didn\u2019t want to risk the high approval they had, and going to war would certainly do that, they thought. So those are the two primary reasons. The Clinton administration had a totally different agenda, and that was to produce a legacy of eight years of bliss, nonconfrontation, and harmony. The Soviet Union had just gone kaput, we had the peace dividend and they didn\u2019t want to tackle any difficult issue that might threaten that legacy or that 65% approval rating that they had. The only time Clinton actually did military strikes involving Al-Qaeda was in \u201998 when he launched some missiles into empty camps. It was \u201998 and \u201999, Kathleen, that he blew up an office building on a Saturday night in Baghdad. I think the janitor was killed. But nothing serious, after rattling some cages. In fact, after 9\/11 happened, there were some former Clinton administration officials lamenting that if it was going to happen, why couldn\u2019t it have happened during Clinton\u2019s presidency so that he could have had something around which to forge greatness? Those are the best theories to answer your question. This call was obviously a home school assignment, wasn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No? Well, it served a purpose of being a home school assignment nevertheless. Does that help you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, it does.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Any other questions? Because I\u2019m a font of answers.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Not really, but you\u2019re coming to Michigan on Thursday, and I will be there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You will? You\u2019re going to be in the audience?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I will.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, terrific. Well, I\u2019m glad. I\u2019m glad to know this, too. And I\u2019m glad that you\u2019re going to be there. You coming with your mom and dad?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, just my mom.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Just your mom. Okay. Well, I hope you have a good time. I\u2019ll go out of my way to make sure that you do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. That\u2019s Kathleen from — yeah, by the way, programming note, I will not be here Thursday, folks. I gotta fly to Detroit Thursday morning. I\u2019ve got a Rush to Excellence performance that night for our affiliate there, WJR<\/a>, 2500 people. They sold it out in half an hour, I think they told me. I\u2019m meeting with some of our sponsors that are headquartered in Detroit during the day, but we\u2019ll be back here on Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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