'I saw papers that show US knew al-Qa'ida would attack cities with planes'

[rumguy]

"A former translator for the FBI with top-secret security clearance says she has provided information to the panel investigating the 11 September attacks which proves senior officials knew of al-Qa'ida's plans to attack the US with aircraft months before the strikes happened.

She said the claim by the National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, that there was no such information was 'an outrageous lie'.

Sibel Edmonds said she spent more than three hours in a closed session with the commission's investigators providing information that was circulating within the FBI in the spring and summer of 2001 suggesting that an attack using aircraft was just months away and the terrorists were in place. The Bush administration, meanwhile, has sought to silence her and as obtained a gagging order from a court by citing the rarely used 'state secrets privilege'.

She told The Independent yesterday: 'I gave details of specific investigation files, the specific dates, specific target information, specific managers in charge of the investigation. I gave them everything so that they could go back and follow up. This is not hearsay. These are things that are documented. These things can be established very easily.'"

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=507514

[Gman]

1. Have you ever seen the truth fight so hard to get out

from so many people? Have you ever seen so many people fight so hard to keep the truth hidden?

[jimshoes]

2. It's almost like

being constipated and trying like hell to let nature take it's course. Once it gets started though, look out!

[prodigal_green]

3. LOL

recent experience with that one I'm sorry to say.

However, it will definitely be a shitstorm.

[Skittles]

5. lol..........good analogy - especially for the BIG ONES

and September 11 was the mother of all BIG ONES.

[jimshoes]

6. What this administration needs

is a truth laxative. :P

[rumguy]

4. kick

[AP]

7. Does anyone really feel like they've learned anything from the 9/11 Comm.

that we didn't either know explicitly or intuitively by mid 2002?

I don't find this story surprising after ALREADY hearing about those FBI agents in MN and elsewhere who were begging their supervisors to follow up on investigations at the flight schools.

And what about that request for a search warrant that was denied for that computer that belonged to what's-his-name in MN? It was the only warrant like that that was EVER denied. Why did they wait to deny one for a potential airplane hijacker?

I mean, like, duh! Of course they knew shit like this was going to happen. And of course people at a high level were turning a blind eye.

The information I want to hear is WHO was telling them to turn a blind eye.

[rumguy]

8. kick