Trump Is Right About 9/11

[Babel_17]

37. And there were briefings prior to Bush's inauguration

It's not like Bush walked into a ghost town and had to uncover diaries and newspapers to figure out what was what. His nerds got briefed by Clinton's nerds, and the career nerds just kept working away. Clinton's nerds, sorry, Clinton's experts highlighted areas of major concern. Among them, the reports saying something was brewing that could lead to a major act of terrorism.

Bush's people, and the career experts, built on that intelligence and it eventually was presented to the top of Bush's administration, and Bush himself. And there was that guy running down the halls with his "hair on fire" that should have been listened to.

Throughout that summer, we now well know, Tenet, Richard Clarke, and several other officials were running around with their "hair on fire," warning that al-Qaida was about to unleash a monumental attack. On Aug. 6, Bush was given the now-famous President's Daily Brief (by one of Tenet's underlings), warning that this attack might take place "inside the United States." For the previous few years—as Philip Zelikow, the commission's staff director, revealed this morning—the CIA had issued several warnings that terrorists might fly commercial airplanes into buildings or cities.

And now, we learn today, at this peak moment, Tenet hears about Moussaoui. Someone might have added 2 + 2 + 2 and possibly busted up the conspiracy. But the president was down on the ranch, taking it easy. Tenet wasn't with him. Tenet never talked with him. Rice—as she has testified—wasn't with Bush, either. He was on his own and, willfully, out of touch.

A USA Today story, written right before Bush took off, reported that the vacation—scheduled to last from Aug. 3 to Sept. 3—would tie one of Richard Nixon's as the longest that any president had ever taken. A week before he left, Bush made a videotaped message for the Boy Scouts of America. On the tape, he said, "I'll be going to my ranch in Crawford, where I'll work and take a little time off. I think it is so important for the president to spend some time away from Washington, in the heartland of America."

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2004/04/the_outoftowner.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A._Clarke

In Frank Herbert's Dune series of books, there's a scene in one of them (God Emperor of Dune) where the ruler of the universe reveals that he saves his greatest punishment for historians who deliberately attempt to falsify the historical record. They're rendered permanently unconscious and then they're place upon the collection of their books, then burned alive.

"They were destroyed because they lied pretentiously."