These TEN OPPORTUNITIES were NOT during the Bush administration, as he did NOT work there then!
FYI and can you ping some people?
Bush was barely getting his feet wet when 9-11 went down. UBL was hitting us for 8 years before that, and we didn't do anything. Hell, we even refused to take him when he was offered to us on a silver platter.
What's really going on here is they are laying the ground work to blame Bush for any future attack that may happen. Simple as that!
This article also doesn't mention that this is not the first Book Scheuer wrote
That's right. Scheuer said the warnings were in the 1990's, through 1999. More evidence of the monumental negligence of the Clinton administration -- which continues to get a free pass from the media.
absolutely.
As reported in the Washington Post,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43899-2004Nov11.html
"Scheuer was chief of the CIA's bin Laden station from 1996 to 1999 and remained a counterterrorism analyst after that." This was all pre-Bush.
The CBS actually includes this information towards the end:
"Whatever you call it, in 1999, three years after he started the bin Laden unit, Scheuer's candor got him into trouble with his supervisors at the CIA. What were the circumstances under which he left the bin Laden unit?
"I think I became too insistent that we were not pursuing this target with enough vigor and with enough risk-taking - - an unwillingness to take risks," says Scheuer. "I got relieved of the position I was in. I had a lovely sojourn in the library and then had other sojourns since."
His exile ended shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11, when he was brought back to the bin Laden unit as a special adviser. But by then, everything had changed."
Without specifically noting that all ten occasions were during Clintons presidency.
Who would of thought that the proud network of Dan Rather would involve itself in such obfuscation.
Incidentally, his story is being promoted as an example of Bush driving out the "whistle-blowers" in his "purge" of the CIA. They paint a picture of brave agents working against a corrupt presidency, when what you really have is a bunch of loose-lipped bureaucrats with an inflated sense of their own importance.
Mostly incompetant bureaucrats at that
GGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR......
Scheuer is correct in the above statement. Bin Laden thought he was dealing with an administration like that of X42.
... As I said, our boys were shocked by the low morale of the American soldier and they realized that the American soldier was just a paper tiger. Interview Osama Bin Laden (May 1998)
When this guy was on Greta, NO MENTION WAS EVER MADE REGARDING TIME PERIOD OF THOSE EVENTS. It was purposefully stated to IMPLY it was during the Bush admin. I was livid.
WHY do all of these incompetent nincompoops,go on 60 Minutes,to spew their spurious propaganda? BECAUSE THEY CAN!
No wonder we got hit on 9/11...eight years of the Clintons ignoring the problem and jerks,like Sheuer,in charge at the CIA! Proof positive,that we need THE PATRIOT ACT and a clean sweep out of these traitors.
GOD BLESS PRESIDENT BUSH and his team!
When they talk of Clinton they call it the U.S.Government, when they talk of Bush they call it the Bush Administration. He said it so many times I almost kicked the TV. Didn't say "Clinton" one time.
In a letter to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees earlier this year, Scheuer says his agents provided the U.S. government with about ten opportunities to capture bin Laden before Sept. 11, and that all of them were rejected.
These TEN OPPORTUNITIES were NOT during the Bush administration, as he did NOT work there then!