France’s Le Monde newspaper said it had obtained 328 pages of classified documents on Osama bin Laden’s terror network that were drawn up by the French foreign intelligence service, the DGSE, between July 2000 and October 2001. . . .
Le Monde reported that the documents included a note dated Jan. 5, 2001, which said al-Qaida had been working on a hijacking plot for months. The intelligence note reported that bin Laden had attended a meeting in Afghanistan in October 2000, where a final decision to carry out the plot was taken, the newspaper said. . . .
The newspaper said the DGSE report was passed on to the CIA chief in Paris, as was all information about possible threats to American interests.
AJ Strata adds:
...this is the time frame the infamous Richard Clark document was being passed around the NSC for comment - the same document which Sandy Bergler stole from the National Archives and shredded in his office. It would make sense that whatever the French detected not only did they pass it on to Clinton’s CIA, but our CIA probably detected it too! So I would wager the smoking gun Sandy Bergler risked serious jail time to destroy was something having to do with early warnings of a Bin Laden plot to highjack airlines, sourced or confirmed by the French.
Yup, but I don’t expect our media will be picking up on that particular angle. They’ll be too busy reporting on stories about Cheney not calling Scooter Libby since the latter was convicted. You know, the important stuff.
This circumstantial evidence suggesting that the Clintons had Sandy Berger steal embarrassing (for them) national security documents from the National Archives will be fired in the “not newsworthy” folder along with Diane Feinstein’s resignation from a military appropriations committee for dealing her husband’s company no-bid government contracts.
The Bush administrations firing of a handful of US attorneys in a perfectly legal, traditional matter will continue to be the “scandal” of the day. Because that’s how things work in our media.
But don’t you dare call these reporters biased, you ignorant plebes. They know better than you do.