Gore: 'I would have heeded 9/11 warnings' (Raw Story)

[kpete]

Gore: 'I would have heeded 9/11 warnings'

RAW STORY
Published: Wednesday November 29, 2006

In an interview with GQ Magazine, former Vice President Al Gore - who many Democrats believe should have been determined the winner in the 2000 presidential election against George Bush which the Supreme Court eventually decided - maintained that he would have "heeded the warnings" before the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, although he added that "no one can say that the 9-11 attack wouldn’t have occurred whoever was president."

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Gore admitted that "it’s almost too easy to say, 'I would have heeded the warnings,'" but left little doubt that he thought the president hadn't done as much as he should have, when warned by the CIA that bin Laden was determined to attack the Unites States in the summer of 2001.

"In fact, I think I would have, I know I would have," Gore said. "We had several instances when the CIA’s alarm bells went off, and what we did when that happened was, we had emergency meetings and called everybody together and made sure that all systems were go and every agency was hitting on all cylinders, and we made them bring more information, and go into the second and third and fourth level of detail."

"It is inconceivable to me that Bush would read a warning as stark and as clear as the one he received on August 6th of 2001, and, according to some of the new histories, he turned to the briefer and said, 'Well, you’ve covered your ass,'" Gore continued. "And never called a follow up meeting. Never made an inquiry. Never asked a single question. To this day, I don’t understand it."

Gore said that he thought it was "fair to say" that Bush "personally does in fact bear a measure of blame for not doing his job at a time when we really needed him to do his job."

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[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

1. Bring it on, Al! Bush has gotten a free ride on this bs for way too long!

[CJCRANE]

2. I wonder why * never asked a single question...?

:shrug:

[snappyturtle]

3. I think Gore is being very gracious......

in saying that MAYBE 911 would have happened anyway. Me thinks it would not have happened. I really like Al Gore but I can remember another time he was gracious and that should have been our warning that bad things were coming.

[Larkspur]

4. Al Queda would still have pursued attacking the World Trade Towers

They did it in 1993. But Gore is right, he would have heeded the warnings and done everything in his power to get the government agencies to work together to prevent Al Queda's mission from succeeding.

[blm]

6. I am CERTAIN 9-11 would not have happened if Gore were president - the HartRudman

report on Global Terror would have been read immediately that January and Gore would have worked to implement its urgent guidelines. Any Democrat even halfway familiar with the terror issue would have used that Report like a Bible.

[Bandit]

5. But Bush* did name Cheney as the head of anti terrorism

And how many meetings did Cheney hold again? Before 9-11 he held zero meetings..Zero, which shows how seriously they took the warnings and the Hart-Rudman report which was on their desk Jan 20th 2001.