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Title: Despite Warnings, Bush Surprised By 9/11
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RAWSTORY
URL Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2 ... er-911-why-didnt-we-know-this/
Published: Aug 30, 2011
Author: DAVID EDWARDS
Post Date: 2011-08-30 19:03:42 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 3656
Comments: 7
In an interview that aired Sunday night, President Bush told National Geographic Channel’s Peter Schnall that after 9/11, he didn’t want to blame intelligence agencies for failing to predict the attacks.
“At some point in time in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, I thought about why didn’t we know this?” Bush recalled.
“I knew we needed to figure out what went wrong to prevent other attacks but I didn’t want start the finger pointing and say to our intelligence communities, ‘You fouled up. You should have caught this. Why didn’t you know?’”
On Aug. 6, 2001 — more than a month before the attacks — Bush received a presidential daily briefing entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”
“Clandestine, foreign government, and media reports indicate bin Laden since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US,” the briefing said. “Bin Laden implied in U.S. television interviews in 1997 and 1998 that his followers would follow the example of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef and ‘bring the fighting to America.’”
“FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.”
The day after receiving the report while vacationing on his ranch, “Bush seemed carefree as he spoke about the books he was reading, the work he was doing on his nearby ranch, his love of hot-weather jogging, his golf game and his 55th birthday,” according to The Washington Post.
On at least two other occasions in August 2001, CIA Director George Tenet also reportedly briefed Bush on terrorist threats.
Watch this video from National Geographic Channel, broadcast Aug. 28, 2011.
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They keep acting like History happened yesterday and facts are irrelevant:
10th Anniversary of PDB "Osama Determined To Strike ... - OpEdNews www.opednews.com/.../10th...ry-of-PDB-O-by-Amanda-L... - Cached Aug 6, 2011 – 10th Anniversary of PDB "Osama Determined To Strike in US" ... Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, and the rest of ...
#2. To: All (#1)
"The world, in its totality, is an expression of the beliefs held by the populations. In times of pervasive ignorance and darkness it can be a stifling affair for some of us. People don’t want to know. They’ll argue from whatever uninformed point of view they have settled on but they won’t look more deeply for the truth, because the truth is a dangerous area of endeavor. You never know what you’re going to find out and it changes you. It makes accepting the same old same old harder and harder to do. You will become disenfranchised from your fellows. It comes with the territory."
#3. To: Brian S (#0)
Hey asspipe......newsflash......boosh is not running a thing. Not relevant......deflecting issues like this won't help you relect your junk.
Obamunist is flaming out and its hilarious watching his ballsack gobblers like you screech away futlily.
I must say though the vid of jorge being his same old non stuttering extemporaneous capable self made me realize how low barack has moved the retard bar.
Neo lib jorge still comes across ....... much as I disliked his illegal pandering, socialialist crappola,and assorted other statist bs.....as towering over the mumbling teleprompter drone obama.
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. (decided to retire the beatdowns on old worthless retread posters that are bozoed)
#4. To: e_type_FAG (#3)
Hey asspipe......newsflash......boosh is not running a thing. Not relevant......deflecting issues like this won't help you relect your junk.
Hey shitbreath...this had nothing to do with an election.
This is a reflection on your little hero, "little lord pissy pants" and his failings.
Now piss off you!
But do play again after depositing .25!
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
#5. To: Brian S (#0)
On Aug. 6, 2001 — more than a month before the attacks — Bush received a presidential daily briefing entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”
Only idiots with Bush Derangement Syndrome think that that was any kind of warning.
Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
#6. To: no gnu taxes (#5)
On Aug. 6, 2001 — more than a month before the attacks — Bush received a presidential daily briefing entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” Only idiots with Bush Derangement Syndrome think that that was any kind of warning.
Yep.
Its pathetic, but completely predictable.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
#7. To: Brian S (#0)
The revelation came this morning, when CIA Director George Tenet was on the stand. Timothy Roemer, a former Democratic congressman, asked him when he first found out about the report from the FBI's Minnesota field office that Zacarias Moussaoui, an Islamic jihadist, had been taking lessons on how to fly a 747. Tenet replied that he was briefed about the case on Aug. 23 or 24, 2001.
Roemer then asked Tenet if he mentioned Moussaoui to President Bush at one of their frequent morning briefings. Tenet replied, "I was not in briefings at this time." Bush, he noted, "was on vacation." He added that he didn't see the president at all in August 2001. During the entire month, Bush was at his ranch in Texas. "You never talked with him?" Roemer asked. "No," Tenet replied. By the way, for much of August, Tenet too was, as he put it, "on leave."
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Bush lied...thousands died...
America...My Kind Of Place...
"I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..."
--GW Bush
"THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!"
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
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