Remember how W. Bush blew off the August 6, 2001 CIA memo -- "Osama determined to strike in the [View all]

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United States."

Take a look at http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/11/cia-directors-documentary-911-bush-213353 for a trip through memory lane on this.

In the months leading up to the attack, Ashcroft said that anyone who kept bringing up the possibility of an attack by Al Qaeda would be fired from the justice department. Bush and Condi ignored Clinton and Richard Clark.

Then with trumped up "information" (manufactured with the acquiescence of people being tortured), the untrue rational for the invasion of Afghanistan and for Iraq was developed.