Ed Bradley, on 60 Minutes tonight, will you ask Condoleeza why....

[TruthIsAll]

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5942.htm

"Why, Oh Why?"
By W.C. Allen
03/16/04

Why did President Bush ignore a one and-a-half page briefing he personally received on August 6, 2001, a month prior to September 11th, which talked about Osama bin Laden's capabilities to strike the U.S. using hijacked aircraft as weapons?

Why won't President Bush share this briefing, at least the pertinent parts, with the American people?

Why, upon the appointment by President Bush of Vice President Richard Cheney in May of 2001 to head a task force to "combat terrorist attacks on the U.S." did the task force and the President never meet?

Why did Vice President Cheney, after receiving counter-terrorism and homeland defense legislation from the Senate in July, 2001, say he wouldn't be able to review the material for six months?

Why did the Justice Department under John Ashcroft shift the department's efforts away from counter-terrorism, even though he had said prior to 9/11 "fighting terrorism was a top priority of his agency"?

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Why, if the Bush Administration has nothing to hide and claim to have so much integrity, are they so reluctant to share with the American people the truth about their actions, their inactions and their failures before and after the 9/11 attacks, to simply answer a few questions honestly without passing the blame onto someone else?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. if only he would!

I fear it will be softball questions, allowing her to spin and spin and spin instead.

[KC21304]

2. Ed Bradley ? Or is Bill sitting in ?

Time to edit. Good questions.

[cynicinthesouth]

3. You mean Ed Bradley?

Bill Bradley is the man I was rooting for for the democrat nominee.

[TruthIsAll]

4. My bad. Of course I meant Ed.

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[MikeG]

5. Condi, why haven't you gotten your teeth fixed?

Haven't you heard of the WH dental plan?

[BillZBubb]

6. It'll be a softball smoochfest

Bradley won't push the Bush whore on a single issue. He'll let her get away with her unsubstantiated spin.

[Solomon]

7. I don't understand why she's doing it. Why don't they just shut up

about Clarke? Not that I'm complaining mind you.

[mmonk]

8. They over-reach

They can't help themselves.

[RedSock]

9. some sources say it was 11 pages

August 6, 2001: President Bush receives classified intelligence briefings at his Crawford, Texas ranch indicating that bin Laden might be planning to hijack commercial airliners. The memo read to him is titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US", and the entire memo focuses on the possibility of terrorist attacks inside the US. National Security Advisor Rice later claims the memo was "fuzzy and thin" and only 1 and a half pages long (his normal daily security briefings run two or three pages) but other accounts state it was 11 pages long. (Newsweek, 5/27/02, New York Times, 5/15/02, Die Zeit, 10/1/02) The contents have never been made public. However, a Congressional report later describes what is likely this memo (they call it "a closely held intelligence report for senior government officials" presented in early August 2001): it mentions "that members of al-Qaeda, including some US citizens, had resided in or traveled to the US for years and that the group apparently maintained a support structure here. The report cited uncorroborated information obtained in 1998 that Osama bin Laden wanted to hijack airplanes to gain the release of US-held extremists; FBI judgments about patterns of activity consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks and the number of bin Laden-related investigations underway; as well as information acquired in May 2001 that indicated a group of bin Laden supporters was planning attacks in the US with explosives." (Senate Intelligence Committee, 9/18/02) Incredibly, the New York Times later reports that Bush "broke off from work early and spent most of the day fishing". (New York Times, 5/25/02) The existence of this memo is kept secret until May 2002 (see May 15, 2002).

Full text of all articles here:
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/main/timelinebefore911.html

[snippy]

10. Does anyone know the over/under on the number of lies she tells?

I am taking the over without even knowing the number.