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Politico,,,,please, these are 5th,6th and 7th paragraphs of the article. Incredible......
That morning of July 10, the head of the agencys Al Qaeda unit, Richard Blee, burst into Blacks office. And he says, Chief, this is it. Roof's fallen in, recounts Black. The information that we had compiled was absolutely compelling. It was multiple-sourced. And it was sort of the last straw. Black and his deputy rushed to the directors office to brief Tenet. All agreed an urgent meeting at the White House was needed. Tenet picked up the white phone to Bushs National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. I said, Condi, I have to come see you, Tenet remembers. It was one of the rare times in my seven years as director where I said, I have to come see you. We're comin' right now. We have to get there.
Tenet vividly recalls the White House meeting with Rice and her team. (George W. Bush was on a trip to Boston.) Rich started by saying, There will be significant terrorist attacks against the United States in the coming weeks or months. The attacks will be spectacular. They may be multiple. Al Qaeda's intention is the destruction of the United States." What do you think we need to do? Black responded by slamming his fist on the table, and saying, We need to go on a wartime footing now!"
What happened? I ask Cofer Black. Yeah. What did happen? he replies. To me it remains incomprehensible still. I mean, how is it that you could warn senior people so many times and nothing actually happened? Its kind of like The Twilight Zone. Remarkably, in her memoir, Condi Rice writes of the July 10 warnings: My recollection of the meeting is not very crisp because we were discussing the threat every day. Having raised threat levels for U.S. personnel overseas, she adds: I thought we were doing what needed to be done. (When I asked whether she had any further response to the comments that Tenet, Black and others made to me, her chief of staff said she stands by the account in her memoir.) Inexplicably, although Tenet brought up this meeting in his closed-door testimony before the 9/11 Commission, it was never mentioned in the committees final report.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/11/cia-directors-documentary-911-bush-213353#ixzz3rP4WaAzu
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In my opinion these paragraphs are the smoking gun that is clear and precise...points to Rice..points to Bush..I put this one up because it gives different information than the others...and..points directly to Condi Rice. This conversation is new to me. It is no memo, it is a conversation warning Rice of an attack. She ignored it completely.. Ignorant idiot/asshole.
.Another thought, we have been down this road before. Why again?..Why now. Maybe Tenet is really worried that Jeb could get in..maybe. It looks like the clown car is self destructing, and Jeb is playing a " good waiting game". Perhaps Tenet wants Jeb to answer some more questions about.."He kept us safe" so Jeb would be gone forever.
But as far as this is concerned.. "I know nothing" as Sargent Shultz said. I do not know why this is coming out now..
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Why isn't this being reported on MSNBC and CNN? Will we hear about this on the nightly news (ABC, CBS, NBC)????
Stuart G
(38,365 posts)I think it will take some time..
When someone well known gets this one..all hell will break loose...Condi will be history..good!!!!!!!!
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Stuart G
(38,365 posts)tblue37
(64,982 posts)malaise
(267,838 posts)Fugg 'em!
LiberalArkie
(15,686 posts)be hidden in all the stuff with the debates, but can be found on the "inter tubes". They have done there part putting in info out, their conscience is clear now and no general public will notice. Just like always.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)It was like his job?
Stuart G
(38,365 posts)This conversation would make Benghazi look like a quiet day at the beach...
He would have been impeached and it would have been a true "show trial" There would have been world wide broadcasts of the hearings and the trial. The Republicans would not have ever stopped..and they would have gone out for blood like they did with Clinton..The thing makes me so mad, and now it comes out..14 years later...Rice was told there was an attack coming, and she ignored it.....................
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,072 posts)... he wouldn't have ignored such warnings. But then, that is why they had the, "hanging chadfest", down in Florida.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)It's another vital message lost to the optics.
The media are corrupt by design: The "free press" works not to inform as the First Amendment intends, but to keep the People informed only of what the media's owners think best for them.
On one hand, Bush and others are incompetent.
On the other hand, is the CIA covering its own butt?
Stuart G
(38,365 posts)Is this report true. Is Tenant telling the truth???? Why now? ..Why was this not reported earlier??? Condi needs to be brought before some kind of committee and testify that ...she did not know..or she did....put her in jail......
LiberalArkie
(15,686 posts)kentuck
(110,950 posts)Are they true?
Stuart G
(38,365 posts)and as you say..."Are they true?"....if they are, well these stories are incredible beyond belief..
reddread
(6,896 posts)with a slightly new backstory in place.
full tilt terror/military threat of major war was a sure thing with an election ahead.
Kingofalldems
(38,361 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)robertpaulsen
(8,632 posts)A real 9/11 forum without baiting people who have the guts to question the official story.
boomer55
(592 posts)SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)god I hope it is not
MIHOP
postulater
(5,075 posts)With the senior adviser to the president, and she thinks it's all in a days work and blows it off.
And she gets away with it.
Either incredibly obtuse or it's all part of the plan.
EndElectoral
(4,213 posts)Why was this left out of the committee report? Seems kind of important information, and makes the committee report seem like a whitewash in lieu of the information today.
Stuart G
(38,365 posts)Until now ,now one knew of what was said to Condi Rice, or the" severity of the warning" But now it is out, and it will stay out. makes me sick inside all over again...
Rex
(65,616 posts)Dayum...just...wow. The level of corruption during the Cheney years is epic. They knowingly ignored an obvious threat, in order to not get connected with their friends the Bin Ladens? No wonder the investigation was whitewashed and purposely forgotten for as long as possible. The BFEE has all this blood on their hands and had been wanting a reason to start wars in the ME...ie PNAC. They got exactly what they wanted AND the after results they wanted too.
Justice
(7,182 posts)Showtime documentary airing this month.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)Maybe it was but was part of the 28 pages redacted by Bush.
Release the 28 pages NOW!!!
chapdrum
(930 posts)As much as I disrespect her...she had plenty of fellow ideologues.
Of course, this is very old news.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)UTUSN
(70,497 posts)Benghazi-BENGHAZI-*BENGHAZI*!1
wildbilln864
(13,382 posts)nt