New NSA docs contradict Bush Administration 9-11 claims

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56. Remember how Tenet's hair was on fire and Bush just looked at him stupidly?

Figuratively and literally, of course, Tenet's man was just "covering his ass." From Robert Parry in 2007:

Tenet-Bush Pre-9/11 'Small Talk'

In late August 2001, when aggressive presidential action might have changed the course of U.S. history, CIA Director George Tenet made a special trip to Crawford, Texas, to get George W. Bush to focus on an imminent threat of a spectacular al-Qaeda attack only to have the conversation descend into meaningless small talk.

By Robert Parry
ConsortiumNews
May 6, 2007

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When Rice asked what needed to be done, the CIA’s Black responded, “This country needs to go on a war footing now.” The CIA officials sought approval for broad covert-action authority that had been languishing since March, Tenet wrote.

Despite the July 10 briefing, other senior Bush administration officials continued to pooh-pooh the seriousness of the al-Qaeda threat. Two leading neoconservatives at the Pentagon – Stephen Cambone and Paul Wolfowitz – suggested that the CIA might be falling for a disinformation campaign, Tenet wrote.

But the evidence of an impending attack continued to pour in. At one CIA meeting in late July, Tenet wrote that Rich B. told senior officials bluntly, “they’re coming here,” a declaration that was followed by stunned silence.

The intelligence community’s evidence was summarized in the special PDB that was delivered to Bush while he was vacationing at his ranch in Crawford.

The PDB ended by noting that “FBI information … 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 FBI is conducting approximately 70 full field investigations throughout the US that it considers Bin Ladin-related. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our Embassy in the UAE in May saying that a group of Bin Ladin supporters was in the US planning attacks with explosives.”

Bush apparently was not pleased by the CIA’s intrusion on his vacation nor with the report’s lack of specific targets and dates. He glared at the CIA briefer and snapped,[font color="red"] “All right, you’ve covered your ass,” [/font color]according to an account in author Ron Suskind’s The One Percent Doctrine., which relied heavily on senior CIA officials.

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/050607.html

Prison awaits these traitors. Hope they rig up a 24/7 webcam with which we can monitor their whereabout, particularly Smirko and Sneer's.