Rice Was ‘Uninterested In Advising The President’ Before 9/11,

[KatyaR]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/04/rice-911-commission/">Wanted To Be His ‘Closest Confidante’

Tomorrow, New York Times reporter Philip Shenon will release his book The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation, revealing “failure at the highest levels of the United States government.”

Shenon singles out Condoleezza Rice as inept, more interested in being President Bush’s buddy than securing the nation. Newsweek editor Evan Thomas writes a preview of the book:

The official ineptitude uncovered by the commission is shocking. Dubbed “Kinda-Lies-a-Lot” by the Jersey Girls, Ms. Rice comes across as almost clueless about the terrorist threat. “Whatever her job title, Rice seemed uninterested in actually advising the president,” Mr. Shenon writes. “Instead, she wanted to be his closest confidante — specifically on foreign policy — and to simply translate his words into action.”

And then there's Ashcroft:

Another particularly bumbling figure in Shenon’s book is John Ashcroft. On July 17, 2001, the then-Attorney General “received the same CIA briefing about an imminent al-Qaida strike on an American target.” While Rice was interested in cozying up to Bush, Ashcroft was focused on protecting gun owners:

Attorney General John Ashcroft appears more interested in protecting gun owners from government intrusion than in stopping terrorism, and dismissively tells Pickard that he doesn’t want to hear any more about threats of attacks.

How can people not GET how incompetent these people are? I just don't understand.

Original NYT article - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/04/books/04thom.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">Tragicomic Tale of the 9/11 Report

[wildbilln864]

1. recommend #4! who'll....

put it on the greatest page? :patriot:

[Jane Austin]

2. Me!

:)

[Twist_U_Up]

3. incompetent ? or stupid like a fox ?

[althecat]

15. Fantastic graphic...

[Supersedeas]

29. that's frightening

[creeksneakers2]

4. The story is finally starting to be told

Bush ordered Condi and the rest of his staff not to do anything about terrorism and not to bother him about it until a simple solution that was not actually possible could be reached. "I'm tired of swatting at flies" Bush said.

Bush's approach to terrorism was a combination of all his worst qualities. He gave orders with no advice or forethought, based only on his emotional responses to issues. He treasured his ignorance. He punished people who tried to do the right thing instead of following his orders. He punished people who questioned him. Bush's idiocy got 3,000 people killed.

Nothing about what happened came out, save a little noticed article in the Washington a few months after 9/11. Bush was able to win back the presidency based on his ability to fight terrorism.

It was obvious that the 9/11 Commission covered up for Bush. Finally, the truth is coming out.

[Disturbed]

5. Ms Rice proved how incompetent she is many times over

yet the Dems voted overwhelmingly for her to be Sec. of State
where she has been mostly useless & incomptent, as well.

[sofa king]

26. And that's bad for us how?

She's not just incompetent, she's fucking evil, just like George W. Bush.

Incompetence is the best quality of both of those people, because that incompetence prevents them from successfully realizing their truly evil aspirations.

So yeah, making her Secretary of State sucks, but it also ensures that the damage done will be random and hopefully salvageable. Put Richard Perle in the same position, and we'd all be radioactive isotopes by now.

[leveymg]

17. Getting Bush reelected does seem to have one of been the primary purposes of the 9/11 Commision

That, and pacifying the public, and covering up the involvement of the CIA in running al-Qaeda in and out of the U.S. as part of an illegal domestic operation.

It certainly was Phil Zelikow's. No doubt, of his colleague, Condi Rice, as well.

[juno jones]

41. His idiocy now has a body count

of about a million and counting.

[nashville_brook]

6. i can't wait to read this book! n/t, k 'n r.

[gratuitous]

7. Ashcroft didn't want to hear about threats

But he did stop flying commercial flights on July 26, 2001. No particular reason. The AG ought to travel in chartered style. You know.

[Supersedeas]

30. what was it about commercial airflights...hmmmm...

[yellowcanine]

8. Well she did slip up and refer to him as "My husband" one time.

[calimary]

24. She was just one of a number of single women who had huge crushes

on him, and I'm sure he worked his "charm offensive" on her with that swagger and that cutesy little cowboy drawl (harried miers and karen hughes come to mind). Wonder what kind of nickname he gave her? Monica, maybe?

:puke:

I have LONG suspected that contradicta has spent the last eight years being little else BUT dubya's Monica.

[Octafish]

9. All right. You've covered your ass, now.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1528134

[troubleinwinter]

10. Two questions. (maybe four)

Are they stupid and inept? Is McCain as just as stupid and inept?

Or

Was it all deliberate and does McCain follow this plan? Or is he stupid and insane?

[MadMaddie]

11. When US citizens haves been elected to the highest postions

of the Government there is absolutely no room for stupidity or ineptitude.

Their actions or lack of actions must be considered Treason. They willfully and intentionally put the country at risk to push their party politics.

All of them must be prosecuted for Treason.

[troubleinwinter]

13. I understand your response that the current dicks must be impeached,

and to my mind, hung.

My question is whether McCain is stupid, insane or in on the scheme?

[MadMaddie]

18. I think McCain is insane and suffering from PTSD. He has gotten

worse over the last several years.

[troubleinwinter]

14. The word "treason" brings to my mind a firing squad.

Where's Ollie North?

Here, Ollie, Ollie.

[MadMaddie]

19. Well if the Constitution defines the penalty as such then those

who commit the highest of high crimes should suffer the penalities.

The Rosenbergs suffered hanging in the 50's for lesser offenses than what this bunch of Treasonous Traitors have done.

Of course I just watched the movie Breach about the FBI Traitor Robert Hanssen who committed Espionage and sold our top government secrets to the Soviets....he spied for 22 years and got a lot of people killed and he only got life for pleading guilty to 15 counts of espionage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen

[Dr.Phool]

37. Actually, they were fried.

[MadMaddie]

40. I stand corrected.. Thanks.

[CJCRANE]

31. And the worst thing is that

Congress could have been wiped out if United 93 had reached its target and knocked down the dome of the Capitol.

Bush-Rumsfeld-Cheney just sat there and did nothing as two airliners zeroed in on Washington.

The Dems (and non-complicit Repubs) should be screaming blue murder to get Bush-Cheney out of power for their own safety.
Not to mention the anthrax mailer is still running around freely.

[Dukkha]

12. so Instead of giving * the "Bin Laden Determined to attack in US" warning

she gave him this

[TahitiNut]

16. "... translate his words into action”??

Well, that explains a lot. :eyes: The action that comes to mind most often is retching until I puke up my small instestine. Tough job.

:puke:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

20. almost as bad as Condi and Ashcroft was (is) the MSM.

NOT ONCE did they ask the hard question - where were Condi and Ashcroft?
NOT ONCE did they investigate the run up to 9/11
NOT ONCE did they spend serious time with Richard Clarke, Even AFTER Clarke was making noise about the problems in the White House and the threats from outside.

[SpiralHawk]

21. Yes, the corporate media has tragically failed America

and been on Bended Knee to obfuscate or ignore the important, while inflating the irrelevant or trivial.

America is going to have to survive without the corporate media, for it acts now only as a cancer on the body politic.

[Quantess]

42. if only that cute girl

was showing her breasts pointed forward to the camera, would the media film her while reading the cue cards.

[Solly Mack]

22. Appropriate videos for this

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBKWDeX1WxU


Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh3oKogFmFo

[Pacifist Patriot]

23. Shocked! Shocked I say.

[sofa king]

25. July 17, 2001. How interesting.

Ashcroft was briefed that day.

Look what showed up in the news ten days later:
____________________
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/07/26/national/main303601.shtml

Ashcroft Flying High
Attorney General Travels By Private Jet At Taxpayer Expense

WASHINGTON, July 26, 2001

(CBS) Fishing rod in hand, Attorney General John Ashcroft left on a weekend trip to Missouri Thursday afternoon aboard a chartered government jet, reports CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart.

In response to inquiries from CBS News over why Ashcroft was traveling exclusively by leased jet aircraft instead of commercial airlines, the Justice Department cited what it called a "threat assessment" by the FBI, and said Ashcroft has been advised to travel only by private jet for the remainder of his term.
____________________

Now, I wonder what sort of "threat assessment" that was?

[happydreams]

27. The guy who warned about "remote control planes" in July 2001

...Hatfield felt that other information damaging to the Bushes must lurk in the pages of the book, hidden between the lines, things that would become evident when a missing piece surfaced. An organization like the Bush machine with so much illegal activity in its history has any number of potential scandals that could emerge at any time. Damage control is an ongoing part of their operations. To someone who knew the facts, those scandals must stick out of the text of Fortunate Son like so many sore thumbs. Hatfield thought that must have been why the Bush machine took such a personal interest in keeping the book off the shelves. And time only seems to enhance the credibility of the theory.

Since Hatfield's death, I have often wondered what those other hidden scandals were. We may be on the verge of finding out some big ones.

Linda Starr has this to add, "I'd like to remind everyone how vilified Jim Hatfield was by the Bush Machine and how often Jim has been completely correct about Dumbyass and company. I am also proud to once again say that Jim Hatfield was my friend and deserves vindication for his hard work on Bush. They destroyed him as surely as if they murdered him. As my daddy always said, even a chicken can eventually peck you to death. The Bush Machine pecked Jim Hatfield to death." ...

For the whole article, go to Online Journal.



http://www.davidcogswell.com/Political/HatfieldPredictions.html

[Hydra]

28. Not incompetent at all

"Qui Bono?"

They love to play stupid and incompetent- they'd never get away with things like Katrina by saying "This is the policy- deal with it!" although the results are definitely the same.

[Auggie]

32. They wanted 9-11 to happen

[KansDem]

33. Sad, but true...

I don't know how this gang keeps out of prison!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

34. Condi was too busy teaching the Chimp how to use a knife and fork

to stop speaking with his mouth full of food, and to stop using the toilet as his drinking hole. She even failed at those tasks.

[dansolo]

35. Wasn't Ashcroft also going after brothels in New Orleans?

[Dr.Phool]

38. Until he ran into David Vitter in one.

[Cleita]

36. She was rewarded for her incompetence and indifference

with a promotion too. She should be investigated. But then that whole criminal cabal should be from the top down.

[Quantess]

39. Recommended

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