The dark secret NASA officials obviously wanted to conceal was that, in 1998, the spacecraft manufacturing process had been
altered in wholly imprudent deference to the concerns of environmental extremists. So intent was NASA to avoid admitting this
fact that significant energies were focused on denying, rather than correcting, the root cause of the catastrophe.
Thus, the flawed manufacturing process remained in place. And similar recurring problems have once again grounded the Space
Shuttle fleet.
Alarming as this situation is, it represents only a fragment of a widespread pattern of “acceptable risk,” established during the
Clinton years. Repeatedly, America's national interests were gravely compromised, either through gross incompetence, or out of
blind devotion to the Liberal Leftist political agenda.
Former Clinton Energy Secretary Hazel O’Leary, when not squandering millions of taxpayer dollars on meaningless “fact finding”
junkets with her friends, was playing games with the security program at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, one of the nation’s
most sensitive research facilities. O’Leary disliked the lab’s security badges, color-coded to indicate clearance levels. So, in the
name of “sensitivity,” she scrapped the system and seriously compromised security.
Also under the supervision of the Clinton administration, crucial rocket technologies were given to the Communist Chinese, along
with design specifications of the W-88, America’s most sophisticated nuclear warhead.
Now it has been learned that “Able Danger,” a military intelligence project that specifically marked 9-11 hijacker Mohamed Atta as
a terrorist in 2000, was repeatedly rebuffed in its efforts to forewarn the FBI of the need to monitor Atta's actions. To this day, the
9-11 Commission continues to obfuscate and dodge serious questions of such lapses prior to the Islamist terrorist attacks of
September 11, 2001. Moreover, the Commission consistently engages in transparent efforts aimed at avoiding a serious
investigation of a possible internal cover-up.
Worse yet, during the 9-11 Commission’s hearings, former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger was caught at the National
Archives, altering and destroying key documents related to security practices within the Clinton administration.
Despite the heinous and criminal nature of his actions, Berger, upon conviction, received merely a token fine. One wonders if his
NASA counterpart wasn’t busy last month, down at Cape Canaveral, collecting and hiding pieces of foam from around Pad 39,
after Space Shuttle Discovery had lifted off.
Meanwhile, at the Pentagon, career bureaucrats are doing their best to undermine members of the “Able Danger” group who have
blown the whistle on, not only the security lapses that left America vulnerable to 9-11, but, more ominously, patterns of behavior
indicating that the 9-11 Commission continues to suppress evidence of such.
From its inception in mid-2004, the ostensibly non-partisan 9-11 Commission pursued a course of making President George W.
Bush look as inept and culpable as possible, just prior to the presidential election. Attorney General John Ashcroft successfully
turned the tables on the Commission, pointing out Commission member Jamie Gorelick as the chief architect of a “wall” that
prevented intelligence agencies from sharing vital terrorist information.
Thereafter, the Commission was on the defensive, seeking primarily to protect Gorelick from direct examination. In truth, Gorelick’s
presence on that panel was an outrage, lending as much credibility to it as Jack Ruby might have given to the Warren Commission.
But, under the arbitrary scrutiny of a sympathetic press, her validity has never been called into question.
Clearly, the interests of the country are once again being subordinated to efforts by 9-11 Commission members (no doubt
influenced by outside political forces) intent on avoiding discussion of crucial lapses, in order to protect their reputations or
political agendas.
It is altogether telling that, just as problems with Space Shuttle Discovery proved that the Columbia disaster has not been properly
addressed, scandalous revelations from the 9-11 Commission now underscore dangerous and possibly deliberate blunders, thoroughly
disrupting its supposed mission of investigating the terrorist attacks. If such criminal oversights are not corrected, something hideously
worse than 9-11 may yet befall this nation.
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Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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