This is as specific as the briefing Bush received in August 2001 that the press insisted was the smoking gun proving Bush failed to prevent 9-11. Will they blame Clinton for not taking action to capture Bin Laden now?
Carolyn
Whoa! Terrorists were targeting civilian airliners?? Shocking.
Bush didn't lie??? /Sarc
I do not recall the 9/11 Commission making mention of this, did I miss it?
And how many times did slick turn down a chance to take bin laden?
So Clinton, Not-so-bright and Burglar-man knew.
Memo must have fallen out of Sandy Burglar's socks.
Gee, did the diseased looking Richard Clarke forget about this?
Could he apologize to me, the rest of America, and all the good people he slandered, for the fact he and his boss were incompetent?
Maybe Clinton would have seen that memo if someone had taped it to the top of Monica's head.
So, did the Gorelick Wall go up after Clinton was informed?
I fully expect to see the MSM in wild paroxysms of outrage over the revelation that the Clinton administration had years of warnings about the potential threats Al Qaeda posed to civilian airliners. Those objective, hard-working MSM reporters will be all over this story, because they thought that the PDB of Aug. 6, 2001 should have put President Bush and than nation on red alert for hijacking threats, so we can be certain that the MSM will realize that 3+ years of similar knowledge should have allowed ample opportunity for the Clintonistas to act. I'm sure that we will soon see Richard Clarke, Joe Wilson, Wesley Clark, et al giving interviews to declare that Bill Clinton and Algore ignored these threats for years and bear a heavy responsibility for the weak security stance we displayed on 9/11.
Actually, it may be that the best chance of getting Bill Clinton's attention would have been to have Monica pass warnings from the CIA directly to the C-in-C.........
Unfortunately for America as a whole, we will NEVER hear this on any National News Program, except for perhaps Fox News. I imagine they could produce copies of the exact D.P.B, put them on TV and the simpleton lefties would still parse this into oblivion. It's almost 5 years later and the Clintons (yes they both ran the White House)continue to escape any blame for their Crime and Mis-Management against humanity YET AGAIN. The longer I live, the more I realize I live in a totally parallel world from The Left. What I mean is I've actually read books such as The Venona Secrets. I have one lefty friend who actually read the copy I gave him for Christmas a few years ago. Does anybody even believe the average Leftist Liberal can read a 600 page book nowadays? I'm sure he was the exception. LOL
A lot of nothing. Everyobody has known since the 60's that civilian airliners are a primary target of terrorists. To say that Al-queada is targeting them is to say nothing more than that they are following in the steps of their predecessors (Arafat, et al).
Since the report does not give specifics of how the planes would be targeted or used, means this is not actionable intelligence, just a general warning to expect more of the same.
If this report is a smoking gun, then someone has been smoking controlled substances.