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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCheney Thought al Qaeda was Bluffing
Cheney Thought al Qaeda was BluffingBy Jon Schwarz at the Intercept
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/19/cia-tell-bush-cheney-al-qaeda-threats-real/
"SNIP...............
When presented with an actual terror threat the one that turned into the 9/11 attacks Cheney thought al Qaeda was bluffing.
No kidding. This is from The Great War Of Our Time: The CIAs Fight Against Terrorism, a new book by former acting CIA director Mike Morell:
The threat reporting continued [in the spring and summer of 2001] other pieces were titled Bin Ladin Attacks May Be Imminent and Bin Ladin Planning High-Profile Attacks but I sensed some skepticism about it. The vice president one morning asked me whether all this threat reporting might not be deception on the part of al Qaida purposely designed to get our attention and to get us to needlessly expend resources in response.
According to Morell, who was then in charge of the daily presidential intelligence briefing, the CIA felt they then needed to produce a report titled UBL [Usama bin Laden] Threats Are Real.
..............SNIP"
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Cheney Thought al Qaeda was Bluffing (Original Post)
applegrove
May 2015
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Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)1. They ALL were warned via the Hart Rudman report...
THEY FUCKING IGNORED IT. 3000 Americans dead because of their stupidity.
That's the goddamned truth.
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Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)3. No, he ACTED as if he thought they were bluffing.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)4. I really think they believed it would "just" be the normal hijacking.
And saw even that as the needed thing to prod us into war they wanted.
Their reactions, including bushbaby hiding like a panicked bunny, confirmed for me the scale of the attack was unknown.