Bush Issues Fake Terror Alert to Cover Mistakes - Dan Rather

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The more things change, the more they stay the same.

"CBS Evening News" anchorman Dan Rather accused the Bush administration Wednesday morning of issuing an unwarranted FBI terrorist alert to New York City yesterday primarily to distract from questions about its handling of pre-Sept. 11 intelligence information.

Appearing on the "Imus in the Morning" radio show, Rather said he "believed" his network's report a week ago that the White House received a CIA briefing before 9-11 on possible al-Qaeda hijackings prompted the administration to issue the alert for political damage control.

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Now, the subject has been changed, suddenly and very effectively, from 'How is it that the FBI and the CIA didn't move on the information they had? Where was the president briefed about what, when?'

The CBS anchor said he doubted the confluence of events was coincidental: "Maybe these two things are not connected, but surely the people in the administration could forgive us for perhaps thinking, well, perhaps there's some connection here."

From article dated 5/24/2002: "Bush Issued Fake Terror Alert To Cover 911 Bungle"

Link: http://www.rense.com/general25/ratherbush.htm

It's been so long I forgot the media actually had balls. And Dan Rather wasn't afraid. The Administration has done an excellent job of muzzling them.

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1. Old news!

[NightOwwl]

2. I know that!

I was just struck by the similarity of today's "news" and that of 2002. Also how the media has changed from aggressive and courageous to scared littly bunny-pants. Too much kool-aid I guess.