August 6, 2001 - "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S."

[Q]

August 19, 2004

On August 6, 2001, Bush was Given a Security Briefing Entitled, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike In U.S." Yet, Come September 11th, He Ended Up in a Second-Grader's Chair, Having Failed to Protect the Nation, as America Was Under Attack.

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/04/08/edi04058.html

(You can start this editorial by viewing the 9/11 Booker School Video.)

On page 375 of the St. Martin's Press paperback edition of the "9/11 Report" by the "National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States" is a security briefing paper presented to Bush and Condi Rice on August 6, 2001, that was entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike In U.S."

The report indicated that "FBI information ...indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks."

Then why, on the morning of September 11th, did George W. Bush sit in a Florida elementary school classroom for five minutes after being informed of a second plane being flowing into the twin towers -- and mingle with the class and teachers for ANOTHER five minutes before he left the room? Why did he not ask Andrew Card one single question about the attack underway when Card whispered in his ear (since Bush already knew about the first plane crashing into one of the twin towers when he entered the classroom)? Why did he not recall the August briefing that warned of such an attack, or did he? And he just didn't know what to do because he had failed to take action to prevent the hijackings the memo had warned about?

The Commission concluded that no other senior administration security meetings were held "to discuss the possible threat of a strike in the United States as a result of this report."

Condi Rice had the audacity, early on, to acknowledge that they knew hijackings might occur, but not hijackings into buildings, she claimed. Of course, she was lying. There was ample warning that Al Qaeda had been considering hijackings into buildings for years, including anti-missile defenses set up at a Genoa, Italy, conference Bush attended in the summer of 2001 to guard against just such an attack.

[jeff30997]

1. Condi Rice was lying? Get outta here !

[Stephanie]

6. I'm sorry, that's offensive

Really.

[Mandate My Ass]

2. I often conjecture

had Clinton been president on 9/11 and Berger offered the lame theory that a PDB entitled "Bin Laden determined to strike in the US" was an historical document as opposed to actionable intelligence, with what light speed would he be impeached then tried and found guilty of treason.

[Q]

3. The double-standard we're forced to live with...

- Of course RWingers would have called it TREASON if Clinton had the MANY warnings Bush* had before 9-11.

- But the treason goes much deeper than ignoring warnings. There is an active coverup in the Bush* WH about the SAIDI CONNECTION to terrorism and 9-11.

[Mandate My Ass]

4. Ah yes as with Watergate

the conventional wisdom was it was not so much the crime itself (a second-rate burglary) as the cover up that ensued that brought about the fall of Nixon.

There are so many cover-ups going on right now, it makes one's head spin. There are numerous Pulitzers just dying on the vine for want of even a halfway talented investigative journalist with the temerity to try.

The media is now nothing more than an infotainment/propaganda machine.

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. W just sat there

because he had to wait for the attack to run its course. All of the planes were supposed to take off by 8:00 and reach their targets by 9:00. W wasn't supposed to get stuck actually sitting in a 2nd grade classroom. But when things got bogged down, he had to go off script and we all know W can't ad lib very well.