9/11 Panel Members Weren’t Told of Meeting Between Tenet and Rice

[kentuck]

This is interesting...Condi should be fired if this is true.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/washington/01cnd-book.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1159761600&en=797d904aeadd4206&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin

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Members of the Sept. 11 commission said today that they were alarmed that they were told nothing about a White House meeting in July 2001 at which George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, is reported to have warned Condoleezza Rice, then the national security adviser, about an imminent Al Qaeda attack and failed to persuade her to take action.

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Although passages of the book suggest that Mr. Tenet was a major source for Mr. Woodward, the former intelligence director has refused to comment on the book.
Nor has there been any comment from J. Cofer Black, Mr. Tenet’s counterterrorism chief, who is reported in the book to have attended the July 10 meeting and left it frustrated by Ms. Rice’s “brush-off” of the warnings.
He is quoted as saying, “The only thing we didn’t do was pull the trigger to the gun we were holding to her head.” Mr. Black did not return calls left at the security firm Blackwater, which he joined last year.

The book says that Mr. Tenet hurriedly organized the meeting — calling ahead from his car as it traveled to the White House — because he wanted to “shake Rice” into persuading the president to respond to dire intelligence warnings that summer about a terrorist strike. Mr. Woodward writes that Mr. Tenet left the meeting frustrated because “they were not getting through to Rice.”

The disclosures took members of the bipartisan Sept. 11 commission by surprise last week. Some questioned whether information about the July 10 meeting was intentionally withheld from the panel.



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[Brundle_Fly]

1. God I hope Woodward has one of these Bozos

Blabbing this on tape.

:popcorn:

[Pachamama]

2. What else has the Bush Administration failed to tell the 9/11 Commission &

the American public? :eyes:

[flyarm]

4. lots! n/t

fly

[usregimechange]

3. kick

[Stephanie]

5. didn't Richard Clark report this?

when he talked about Tenet with his hair on fire, isn't this what he's referrring to?

[SeveneightyWhoa]

6. Fired?

She should be sent to Gitmo if its true..

[Tin Man]

7. Yes

Clarke said that “on June 21, I believe it was, George Tenet called me and said, 'I don't think we're getting the message through. These people aren't acting the way the Clinton people did under similar circumstances.' And I suggested to Tenet that he come down and personally brief Condi Rice, that he bring his terrorism team with him.

“And we sat in the national security adviser's office. And I've used the phrase in the book to describe George Tenet's warnings as ‘He had his hair on fire.’ He was about as excited as I'd ever seen him.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4619346/

[underpants]

8. Wasn't Cofer Black part of the Kerry campaign?

uh-huh see this is just more of the hate that the left just can't live without have you ever seen so much hate? I mean really....

(said into RW hate radio mics-an industry built principally on hatred of one man-over and over and over. Hey it kills time)