The Deafness Before the Storm

[kentay]

If only the right wing Supreme Court hadn't intervene, and the man who received the most votes had become our President.  But we can only dream how different our world would be today had Gore been Ptresident. kentay 

The Deafness Before the Stormhttp://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/10/us/august-01-brief-is-said-to-warn-of-attack-plans.html?pagewanted=all&src=pmhttp://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/17/us/traces-of-terrorism-the-intelligence-reports-series-of-warnings.html?gwh=C3EC29B4C59CE53AA5275BA7CFE7A497http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/opinion/the-bush-white-house-was-deaf-to-9-11-warnings.html?_r=1&src=twr

[kentay]

9/11: When The Facts Didn't Fit Their Neocon Fantasy
By Susie Madrak on September 11, 2012

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Astounding. This New York Times oped piece by Kurt Eichenwald says the neocon influence in the Bush White House was so all-consuming, so rigid, that when President Bush received numerous intelligence briefings about an impending attack by bin Laden, they decided it was an attempt to distract them from Saddam Hussein. Frightening, just how criminally negligent they were - and they've never admitted they were wrong, not even after all this time and all these people dead:

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/911-when-facts-didnt-fit-their-neocon

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AUGUST '01 BRIEF IS SAID TO WARN OF ATTACK PLANS

By ERIC LICHTBLAU and DAVID E. SANGER; Philip Shenon, Adam Nagourney and James Risen contributed reporting for this article
Published: April 10, 2004

President Bush was told more than a month before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an attack within the United States with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes, a government official said Friday.

The warning came in a secret briefing that Mr. Bush received at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., on Aug. 6, 2001. A report by a joint Congressional committee last year alluded to a ''closely held intelligence report'' that month about the threat of an attack by Al Qaeda, and the official confirmed an account by The Associated Press on Friday saying that the report was in fact part of the president's briefing in Crawford.

The disclosure appears to contradict the White House's repeated assertions that the briefing the president received about the Qaeda threat was ''historical'' in nature and that the White House had little reason to suspect a Qaeda attack within American borders.

Members of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks have asked the White House to make the Aug. 6 briefing memorandum public. The A.P. account of it was attributed to ''several people who have seen the memo.'' The White House has said that nothing in it pointed specifically to the kind of attacks that actually took place a month later.