Rice Should be FIRED: July Briefing "10 on a Scale 1 to 10"

[mod mom]

Intel Officials: Rice’s July 2001 Briefing Described Urgent Threat, ‘10 On a Scale of 1 to 10?


Condoleezza Rice describes her briefing with CIA officials George Tenet and Cofer Black on July 10, 2001 as relatively unremarkable. Here’s how her spokesman Sean McCormack described it yesterday:

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack … the information Rice got “was not new'’ and didn’t amount to an urgent warning. “Rather, it was a good summary from the threat-reporting from the previous several weeks,'’ McCormack said in a statement from Saudi Arabia where Rice is traveling.

-snip

Here’s how the briefing was described by the officials who prepared it, according to McClatchy:

One official who helped to prepare the briefing, which included a PowerPoint presentation, described it as a “10 on a scale of 1 to 10? that “connected the dots” in earlier intelligence reports to present a stark warning that al-Qaida, which had already killed Americans in Yemen, Saudi Arabia and East Africa, was poised to strike again…

“The briefing was intended to `connect the dots’ contained in other intelligence reports and paint a very clear picture of the threat posed by bin Laden,” said the official, who described the tone of the report as “scary.”



http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/03/rice-urgent-threat/

edit: Firing is my opinion.

[Nozebro]

1. She only did what 99% of people would do to save their job/career. EOM

nt

[lonestarnot]

2. And fuck our country!

[nam78_two]

5. except her "job" affects about 1000 times as many lives

as yours or mine I would wager...

[mod mom]

6. so she was willing to allow the worst attack on American soil and ignore

the warning so that Bu$h et al could have their war in Iraq? Maybe 90% of Republicans-but not Americans.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

7. I will take the 1%

Anyday. PEACE

[Supersedeas]

3. and this was followed by the August PDB which she read as 'historical'

[Hav]

4. .

Hm so pretty much everyone was aware of an imminent threat, yet noone in the Bush Administration was willing to take it serious. Hmmm still putting the whole blame on Clinton?

[tblue37]

17. Of *course* they took it seriously!

High level administration officials, like Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft, were specifically warned not to fly commercial.

[skypilot]

8. I love this shit

"... it was a good summary from the threat-reporting from the previous several weeks.

Oh, those threat reports were so last week.

[Octafish]

9. After she's fired, Condescenda should be INDICTED.

Then tried, convicted and sent to prison for the rest of her natural days.

[mod mom]

11. After she is tried at the Hague for war crimes, perhaps the good people of

Iraq should also have a shot at her.

[spin]

10. Probably no presidential run for her n/t

[RufusEarl]

12. The fix was in, it was an inside job! ignore the warning!!

[mod mom]

14. the neocons were willing to sacrifice lives to get the war they wanted and

the profits that went along with it!

[G_j]

13. kick

[LondonReign2]

15. Give Condi a Break

She was only doing her job. Her job, according to her husband, was simply to lie for him at all times. Never did she knew she was suppossed to be doing "security stuff". Look at her testimony to the 9/11 committee -- she took no responsibility for DOING any actual security work - everything was suppossed to be someone else's job.

She's pathetic.

[allisonthegreat]

16. Call your Congressman n/t

[Imagevision]

18. getting pissed off hearing Rice "flatly" dismissing every GD thing!!

nothing but words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[indepat]

19. Fired, hell no: promoted for doing a heck'ava job

[Imagevision]

20. Teah, Rice has to go.... too much BS!!

[librechik]

21. That witch deserves the Medal O' Freedom punishment

followed by the 6-figure-salary-at-Exxon torture.

Give it to her good, Shrub!

:sarcasm: