New NSA docs contradict Bush Administration 9-11 claims

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64. Why You Should Still Be Furious at the Too-Fast Bushies

Mr. Pierce does a nice job of explaining why We the People should be convening a Grand Jury PFDQ...

Why You Should Still Be Furious at the Too-Fast Bushies

By Charles P. Pierce
Esquire - The Politics Blog
at 10:50AM

Comes now the current president to squash Darrell Issa's beef over whether Eric Holder weighs as much as a duck. But lost in said duckhunt are some rather more important documents that got themselves released to the invaluable folks at the National Security Archive. Among other things, the documents reveal in rather startling detail that the last president de-prioritized the CIA's efforts to put Osama bin Laden out of business for "budgetary" reasons — translation: the money went somewhere else — and that the members of that administration have at best been barbering the truth about their own various derelictions of duty ever since. In brief, on this particular historic atrocity, Richard Clarke was right and Condoleezza Rice should not be believed as far as you can throw One World Trade Center.

(Remember the May 16, 2003 press conference when Rice said, "I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people... would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile." This was true only if "anybody" didn't include the entire intelligence community and just about everyone in the outgoing administration. Rice may be the single most overrated person in American public life and, it is made more than abundantly clear from these documents, as a National Security Adviser, she was a terrific piano player.)

SNIP...

The famous August 7, 2001 PDB is here, but, for the first time, in its proper bureaucratic context, which means it's best understood as an explanation of what Clarke was talking about when he said the system was "blinking red." (Another document, from two months earlier, makes that quite clear, and also that Rice's famous contention that the August PDB was an "historical document" was an ass-covering crock, and that, Congressman Issa, was under oath, too.) How anyone can now look back on how these staggering incompetents used the dead of the 9/11 attacks to pump up their own testosterone and get themselves four more years to further wreck the country and not be filled with unbridled rage is beyond me. And, just to bring things around to the present, Willard Romney has shown that, in the area of foreign policy, he's more than eager to get the band back together again. Just sayin'.

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http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/bush-bin-laden-budget-9890376

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