Posted on 04/09/2004 8:56:04 PM PDT by cyncooper
From Post 17
PAGE 9 JOINT INQUIRY REPORT RELATING TO THE PDB;
Of particular interest to the Joint Inquiry was whether and to what extent the President received threat-specific warnings during this period. The Joint Inquiry was advised by a representative of the Intelligence Community that, in August 2001, a closely held intelligence report for senior government officials included information that Bin Ladin had wanted to conduct attacks in the United States since 1997. The information included discussion of the arrest of Ahmed Ressam in December 1999 at the U.S.-Canadian border and the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. It mentioned that members of al-Qa?ida, including some U.S. citizens, had resided in or traveled to the United States for years and that the group apparently maintained a support structure here. The report cited uncorroborated information obtained and disseminated in 1998 that Bin Ladin wanted to hijack airplanes to gain the release of U.S.-held extremists; FBI judgments about patterns of activity consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks; as well as information acquired in May 2001 that indicated a group of Bin Ladin supporters was planning attacks in the United States with explosives]
PAGE 212 JOINT INQUIRY REPORT
In August 2001, the Intelligence Community obtained information about a plot to bomb the U.S. embassy in Nairobi from an airplane or crash the airplane into it. The Intelligence Community learned that two people who were reportedly acting on instructions from Bin Ladin met in October 2000 to discuss this plot.
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This report is a public document, easily accessible to journalists, as well as freepers, just as is the May 2002 Washington Post article.
Briefing on Al Qaeda Included Specifics
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Newspaper articles in May 2002 noted the briefing document's alarming title and reported that the PDB mentioned al Qaeda members living in the United States and others traveling in and out of the country. A July 2003 report from a House-Senate inquiry into intelligence failures said the PDB found that al Qaeda "apparently maintained a support structure" inside the United States.
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No, I am not. I am underscoring their intentional misleading of the public. You are exactly correct.
An excellent suggestion. I have saved your list in a a folder on my desktop I call "Freep stuff" which is a catch all for stuff from Free republic.
Reading the headlines and the reporting spin on this is making me sick. Anyone with a lick of sense can read that memo and see that it had no specifics and was not any kind of real warning. The headlines are implying that it confers absolute foreknowledge of the exact attacks which occurred
Richard Clarke... pay attention. There will be a pop quiz!
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