We need President Biden - to predict the next terror attack

[Debi]

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2006/07/yet_another_bid.html#comments

From NJs Hotline On Call:

Yet Another Biden'ism

While the Biden Indian-American line we gleaned from C-Span's Road to the White House has gotten a lot of play, there was another part of his New Hampshire speech that perked our ears.

Attacking the Bush admin's record on nat'l security (right after the 54-minute mark of the clip), Biden recalled that he gave a speech on September 10th, 2001 "predicting 9/11."

Now in fairness to Biden, he did use that 9/10/01 Nat'l Press Club address to excoriate the admin for focusing on Star Wars instead of unconventional threats such as biological and chemical terrorist attacks.

But, Senator, "predicting 9/11?"

[karynnj]

1. Seeing that that was months after the Hart / Rudman report

and 4 years after Kerry's "The New War" book which warned of the same thing (plus added the danger of the former USSR nuclear material). Kerry, in his book, quoted journals that had already warned of similar dangers.

[wagthedogwar]

2. I remember that...it was freaky

Montreal newspapers headlined the story, "Hart predicts terrorist attacks on America."

On September 5, Hart gave a speech in Montreal, and the headline of the Montreal Paper on September 6 was "Hart Predicts Terrorist Attack." Yet, America did nothing. There's been no accountability. People in Montreal were amazed, floored, actually.

Hart and Rudman personally briefed Rice, Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell. But, according to Hart, the Bush administration never followed up on the commission's urgent recommendations, even after he repeated them in a private White House meeting with Rice just days before 9/11.

...and Rice was like yeah yeah yeah, we'll look into in...

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/04/02/hart/index.html