State of Denial: Two months before 9/11, Rice gave the 'brush-off'

[brettdale]

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/State_of_Denial_Two_months_before_0930.html

State of Denial: Two months before 9/11, Rice gave the 'brush-off' to 'impending terrorist attack' warning


Update: Former Counsel to the 9/11 Commission suggests that "ery possibly, someone committed a crime" by engaging in a "cover-up" of the warning)

According to a new book written by Washington Post investigative reporter Bob Woodward, two months before the September 11 attacks, then National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice gave the "brush-off" to an "impending terrorist attack" warning by former C.I.A. director George J. Tenet and his counterterrorism coordinator.

An article in Friday's New York Times first mentioned the warning, and a front page book review of Woodward's State of Denial in Saturday's edition provides more details.

"On July 10, 2001, the book says, Mr. Tenet and his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, met with Ms. Rice at the White House to impress upon her the seriousness of the intelligence the agency was collecting about an impending attack," David E. Sanger reported on Friday. "But both men came away from the meeting feeling that Ms. Rice had not taken the warnings seriously."

[driver8]

1. I have two questions. When did Woodward know about this and why is

he bringing this info to light now??

Seems to me that this info was important five years ago, too.

[China_cat]

2. Who would have listened to it 5 years ago?

Vital or not.

[aquart]

3. Me.

[China_cat]

4. Yeah, probably me too.

But we'd have been so far in the minority, and not anyone with any real power to do anything or even insist that it be looked into.