9/11/01: Where Was George? - Eric Alterman in The Nation

[MoonAndSun]

<http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20031006&s=alterman>


<snip> September 11 is often said to be the defining moment in the Bush presidency, even of modern history. How strange, therefore, that Bush's behavior that morning--along with that of his Administration--is almost never examined in any detail. This is all the more incredible when one considers the fact that 9/11 is among the most exhaustively chronicled days in human history and Bush among its most heavily covered individuals. No less odd has been the media's willingness to let the many inconsistencies in White House stories pass unexamined. They seem content instead to let Showtime tell the story, Leni Riefenstahl-style.

That fateful morning, Bush was visiting the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota. The moment he learned of the attacks is a matter of deep dispute. CIA chief George Tenet was informed of the first crash almost immediately and is reported to have remarked to his breakfast companion, former Senator David Boren, "You know, this has bin Laden's fingerprints all over it." But the President's aides maintain that he was not told about the attack for more than fifteen minutes, well after viewers saw the first building engulfed in smoke on CNN, and even after he interrupted his schedule to take a call from Condoleezza Rice upon leaving his limousine, after the first crash took place.



much, much more in the article. Eric Alterman breaks down that day and what bush* knew and did very well. A must read!

[Skittles]

1. WELL IT'S ABOUT F****ING TIME

NEXT LET'S ASK WHERE THE AIR FORCE WAS

[RC]

2. WE ALL KNOW WHERE THE AIR FORCE WAS!

Sitting on the ground like they had been told to do!

[RamboLiberal]

3. Alterman asks

I don't have the answers to these questions. But why is no one asking them?

Hasn't he talked to Kristen Breitweiser, Stephen Push and the others associated with them who have been asking this for months. Except for a few like Eric we have a damn lazy and cowed media.

[Lostnote03]

4. Its a Bush Thing!!!

.......I'm surprised that he even remembers where he was on 911, much like his daddys'statement regarding his location on the day of JFKs assassination........

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. Poppy is probably the only man in America

who happened to be in Dallas that day, who doesn't 'remember' exactly what he was doing when he 'found out' that Kennedy had just been shot. I guess in all the excitement everything is a blur.

[dflprincess]

7. I've said it before and I'll say it again

and again and again.

That means Poppy has no alibi.

[LightTheMatch]

5. David Boren?

That guy was the Last D senator from Oklahoma, and now the President of the University of Oklahoma. Let's see if we can get a straight answer out of him, to see if Bush really did say that to him or not....

[teryang]

8. Good observation

<Amazingly, Air Force One took off with no military protection. It remained unprotected in the sky for more than an hour, though Florida is filled with Air Force bases just minutes away with planes that are supposed to be on twenty-four-hour alert. >