"Shaking the trees " could have stopped 9/11.....

[Postman]

Ihttp://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A35744-2002May17?language=printer

snip:
Intelligence sources said last night that at least two names listed in a July 2001 FBI memo about an Arizona flight school have been identified by the CIA as having links to al Qaeda. The FBI memo was never acted upon or distributed to outside agencies prior to Sept. 11 and was not provided to the CIA until last week, sources said.

The memo, sent to FBI headquarters by a Phoenix FBI agent, warned that bin Laden could have been using U.S. flight schools to train terrorists and suggested a nationwide canvass for Middle Eastern aviation students. The CIA's discovery of an al Qaeda link was first reported by ABC News.
unsnip:


....Had the Bush administration followed Richard Clarkes advise and convened the "Principles" meetings he suggested, had they gone to "battle stations" and "shook the trees", they just might have been able to come up with some "dumb luck" as Rice would put it and quite possibly prevented 9/11 from occurring..

[shoopnyc123]

1. I can't believe that they are really going to try to downplay

the information in the memo. It's clear. This guy was after us, and they did nothing.

[goclark]

2. Didn't sound like "historical" to me

How could Condislezza call this "historical?" It is not historical at all!
It is extremely current...that's why they call it "daily" daaaa
not Yearly Briefing.

[bahrbearian]

3. Or beating the Bushes...

[warrior1]

4. what kind of

fucking fire has to be lit under these guys for a reaction.


Now lets say this PDB was Al Gore's, and he did nothing.

President Joe liberman wouldn't have gone to Iraq.


still hate the guy but you see the point

[annagull]

5. Operation Ignore

To me, the biggest question is why the FAA and the general public were not alerted to the terrorist threat when it's obvious the Washington elite were.

[Postman]

6. Ashcroft "Flying High" in July of 2001

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/07/26/national/main303601.shtml

[annagull]

7. Thanks for the link!

I had no idea where to find that, man how disgusting is that?