Saudis warned U.S. 3 weeks before cargo bomb attempt..Obama heeded warning

[spanone]

Obama administration:

"Over the past several months, we received intelligence — which was shared across our government — from our foreign partners about threats from AQAP and other terrorist groups," said CIA spokesman George Little. "The United States receives this kind of information from other governments on a regular basis, as you would expect. Last week, we received specific intelligence that allowed the United States and our allies to disrupt the cargo plot. Our actions were swift and aggressive."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40038498/ns/us_news-security/


bu$h* administration:

Two Months Before 9/11, an Urgent Warning to Rice

On July 10, 2001, two months before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, then-CIA Director George J. Tenet met with his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, at CIA headquarters to review the latest on Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorist organization. Black laid out the case, consisting of communications intercepts and other top-secret intelligence showing the increasing likelihood that al-Qaeda would soon attack the United States. It was a mass of fragments and dots that nonetheless made a compelling case, so compelling to Tenet that he decided he and Black should go to the White House immediately.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR2006093000282.html

[barbtries]

1. what do you know

the democratic president keeping us safe. i love it.

[spanone]

3. i thought i'd make this comparison...our media could never connect the dots or see the irony

[barbtries]

6. that's not quite right

they could. but they won't. corporate media is owned by the right and must always catapult their propaganda.

[spanone]

9. you are correct.

[BeFree]

2. That IS a Change

Change we can believe in.

Unless you are just a hater, eh?
No hope for that specie, I hope.

[malaise]

4. But the meme has always been that only ReTHUGS

can keep America safe despite the FACT that 9/11 happened on their watch after they ignored the warnings.

[spanone]

5. funny, ain't it......not

[barbtries]

7. yep

and bush writes in his memoirs that his greatest accomplishment was keeping the country safe. no irony there nosiree

[tanyev]

8. Wha? The person relaying the information wasn't dismissed with "You've covered your ass,now"?

Ron Suskind (2006), The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies since 9/11 (New York: Simon and Schuster: 0743271092).

The opening of Ron Suskind's The One Percent Doctrine:

Ron Suskind: The "what ifs" can kill you.... In terms of the tragedy of 9/11, a particular regret lingers for those who might have made a difference. The alarming August 6, 2001, memo from the CIA to --"Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US"--has been widely noted in the past few years. But also in August CIA analysts flew to Crawford to personally brief the President--to intrude on his vacation with face-to-face alerts.

The analytical arm of CIA was in a kind of panic mode.... They didn't know place or time... but something was coming. The President needed to know.

And, at an eyeball-to-eyeball intelligence briefing during this urgent summer, George W. Bush seems to have made the wrong choice.

He looked hard at the panicked CIA briefer.

"All right," he said. "You've covered your ass, now."

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2006/06/ron_suskinds_th.html

[NNN0LHI]

10. He heeded the warnings? Well he should be impeached for that

Making Bush and his Teapublican minions look bad is always an impeachable offense. Isn't it?

Don