Posted on 11/23/2005 5:34:50 AM PST by Homer1
Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda, according to government records and current and former officials with firsthand knowledge of the matter.
The administration has refused to provide the Sept. 21 President's Daily Brief, even on a classified basis, and won't say anything more about it other than to acknowledge that it exists.
The information was provided to Bush on September 21, 2001 during the "President's Daily Brief," a 30- to 45-minute early-morning national security briefing. Information for PDBs has routinely been derived from electronic intercepts, human agents, and reports from foreign intelligence services, as well as more mundane sources such as news reports and public statements by foreign leaders.
One of the more intriguing things that Bush was told during the briefing was that the few credible reports of contacts between Iraq and Al Qaeda involved attempts by Saddam Hussein to monitor the terrorist group. Saddam viewed Al Qaeda as well as other theocratic radical Islamist organizations as a potential threat to his secular regime. At one point, analysts believed, Saddam considered infiltrating the ranks of Al Qaeda with Iraqi nationals or even Iraqi intelligence operatives to learn more about its inner workings, according to records and sources.
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I also find it odd that this is just 3 years after a federal indictment claimed Bin laden was working with Iraq on WMD.
Is there even any truth to this allegation?
From the link:
Two Washington newspaper editors have reviewed the papers, which have been obtained by left-wing reporter Murray Waas.
Waas has been holding the documents close, according to one media insider. Some in Washington speculate that Waas does not want to write a major expose about the Clinton administration in the midst of the impeachment hearings, fueling the flames for conservatives.
Waas is the same hack that was way off on PlameGate as well.
Oh pleeeeeeeeeez, only ten days after 9/11? Give me a break!
You're awfully new to be calling in the zot on a long time freeper.
I'm surprised that the rogue CIA hasn't yet leaked the PDB to its pals in the media.
Then that might explain why virtually all key Administration officials are on record saying there is no evidence Hussein was behind 9/11.
More steaming bullsqueeze.
Good find...
Exactly
What does that have to do with WMD?
I think maybe he's calling for a zot on himself.
Other than the fact that the administration always has said that there was no evidence linking Saddam to 9/11, it would be wise not to give leakers like Jay Rockefeller everything.
yep, that's where I heard that name before.
Well, this would explain why Bush has consistantly said that there was no evidence linking Saddam to the 9/11 attacks.
And also why Bush didn't say we should overthrow Saddam because he was in league with Al Qaeda.
The democrats keep making up stuff that isn't true, in order to bash Bush for stuff he didn't say and arguments he didn't make.
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