Bush IGNORED 9/11 Warnings-By Jason Leopold

[kpete]

Bush Ignored 9/11 Warnings
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Report

Tuesday 31 January 2006


President Bush and Vice President Cheney have publicly stated that the top-secret domestic spying program Bush authorized in 2002 could have thwarted the 9/11 attacks had the controversial, and possibly illegal, measure been in effect prior to the terrorist strike on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Bush's and Cheney's comments have gone virtually unchallenged by reporters covering the spying story and by a majority of Democratic lawmakers critical of the issue.

However, the reality is much different from what Bush and Cheney would have you believe. The fact of the matter is that the Bush administration ignored hard evidence from its top intelligence officials between April and September of 2001 about an impending attack by al-Qaeda on US soil. There's no chance that the National Security Agency's domestic wiretapping initiative would have saved the lives of 3,000 American citizens if an intelligence memo titled "Bin Laden determined to attack inside US" that President Bush received a month before 9/11 couldn't move Bush to take such threats seriously.

Since the New York Times broke the domestic spying story last month, the Bush administration has launched a full-scale publicity campaign aimed at convincing an unsuspecting public that the program is legal and has saved thousands of lives. It's the administration's attempt to control the news cycle.

But to suggest that the 9/11 attacks could have been avoided if the NSA had had domestic surveillance powers is outrageous.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/013106J.shtml

[sabra]

1. I will file this in the "Duh" folder....

I wish a reporter would have the guts to bring up the 8.6.01 PDB.

[BOSSHOG]

2. bush would have had to destroy the constitution

to save us. Without illegal spying and wiretapping we would have never known "Bin Laden poised to attack U. S." If only five deferments dick and desert to avoid drug test george had only been spying illegally they would have known.

[JuniperLea]

3. How do they get away with this bovine excrement?

They were running exercises for a "hypothetical" situation where planes would be used as attack weapons... far, far away on the very freaking day it really happened!




How do they get away with the lies? It's so frustrating!

[Brotherjohn]

4. I'm reminded of Jon Stewart's bit of a couple of weeks ago...

... responding to Scott McLellan's assertion that we need warrantless wiretapping to "connect the dots".

So Stewart says:
"That makes perfect sense. Before 9-11 we only had a few dots:
- PDB stating Osama Bin Laden determined to attack in U.S.
- Plan to use commercial jets as weapons
- FBI knew terrorists were taking pilot lessons
- WTC had been previously targeted"

The graphic shows these 4 dots in a perfectly straight line, after which Jon says:
"There was no way to connect these. What we needed was more dots."

Then a bunch of dots are added, totally obscuring the picture.

http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/videos/headlines/index.jhtml
(click "Rampant Buggery")