Bob Woodward Is Coming To Speak At My College This November

[Hissyspit]

Any suggestions on what questions I should ask him?

:evilgrin:

(I have a copy of "Armed Madhouse." Also... "Fiasco," "Hubris," "War On Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You To Know," "Worse Than Watergate...")

[AlCzervik]

1. Yes, "Mr Woodward, what happened?"

[Hissyspit]

2. I think I need to be more specific or it might go over his head.

[greenman3610]

3. He reported in his last book

about Condi Rice's July 10 meeting with George Tenant, in which
the CIA chief called her on an emergent basis to make an impression
about the urgency of the imminent terrorist. threat.

This meeting was not revealed as part of the record of the 911 Commission.
Why?
And what else did they leave out, and what does he
think about withholding information that might
make a difference, say, in an election - so that he
can make as splash with a book.

[Hissyspit]

6. Hmm. First part, very good. I'll have to do some research so I could handle any follow-up.

Second part, I might have to word carefully being a faculty member.

[greenman3610]

9. that's ok, forget the second part

just get an answer to the first question.
I want to know how we can believe anything in the
911 report if they did not document the July 10 meeting.

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

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.”


I hope you will get a chance to ask this, I really want to hear this.

[Hissyspit]

10. O.K. I'll research up on it. Thanks.

I do hope that I will get a chance to go to the forum.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Self delete

I think I'm about snarked out for the night. :)

[Hissyspit]

5. Understood. Been there.

:)

[Blue_In_AK]

8. My snark was definitely not directed at you...

but there have been enough flames around here today.

[JVS]

7. Whatever you do, make sure to get tazed