Two Months Before 9/11, an Urgent Warning to Rice [Woodward Creative Reporting]

Washington Post ^ | 1 October 2006 | Bob Woodward

[angkor]

Tenent and Cofer Black are hearing a lot of intelligence "noise". They have "anxiety". Tenent has been losing sleep (according to Woodward's mysterious source). They go to Condi Rice with what they admit is "voodoo" intelligence to buttress their warning about bin Laden. Strangely, Condi's attention is not fully captured by this noise, sleeplessness, anxiety, and voodoo, and she doesn't "act". They are frustrated. They had wanted her to "do something".

It's all Condi's fault.

[Cindy]

WHAT A LOAD OF STEAMING HORSE MANURE. -Cindy

[Darkwolf377]

And all of this is coming out just before the last election during W's presidency.

TOTAL coincidence, of course...

[zarf]

LOL. The longer I observe this political stuff the more predictable it's becoming. It's all one longazz publicity campaign for book publishers and other media organs.

Can you believe what a bunch of suckers the media played the public for before the new media gave us the ability to witness the manipulation for ourselves?

[montag813]

The entire paragraph above is one big "cover my ass" account by Tenet and Black--both of whom were Clinton holdovers, and both of whom let Bin Laden slip away 8 times before Bush ever took office. Woodward did not get Condi's side of the story, so of course only the holdover failures get advocacy. The Admin. should just say the book is a pack of lies, and that Woodward did not verify source claims at all. "This is a work of fiction", Snow and/or Bush should say.

[Finalapproach29er]

This is Woodwards "monica" for the CIA for all the leaks given to him over the years.

Tenet's the good guy? Rice bad?

This is crap.

[DB]

No, it is all for the Hillary Presidential campaign.

The perception has to be created that the Dems are better at national security. That 9-11 was a failure of the Republicans to listen to Clinton's people.

[6SJ7]

He did not know when, where or how, but Tenet felt there was too much noise in the intelligence systems.

Yup. That's useful intel! < /sarc >

[Shocked2]

Can Bush recall Tenet's medal of freedom or whatever it was the Dims point to a prove Tenet was a good guy?

[angkor]

Sounds like Tenent and Black should have heald a seance with Condi rather than a meeting. Feelings, vibes, "noise".

[angkor]

>"This is a work of fiction", Snow and/or Bush should say."

I was going to add "Woodward's Fictional Reporting" to the headline.

[LZ_Bayonet]

"get Rice to kick-start the government into immediate action"

Condi should have taken the logical step at this point, i.e. contact the CIA Director and have them get to work on this. /sarc>

[finnigan2]

"...Tenet felt there was too much noise in the intelligence systems."

- THIS SUGGESTS A CONVERSATION THAT WENT SOMETHING LIKE THIS:

- Tenant; "I got a bad feeling about this boss. Things are too quiet."

- Rice; "Have you any more to go on?"

- Tenant; "Well...I'm not sleeping very well at night and I feel anxious a lot. I've found it's never wise to ignore your premonitions."

[angkor]

The CIA had already done its due diligence, which is why Black and Tenent showed up at the White House door with vibes, noise, and voodoo.

If only they'd brought their main man, Mike Scheuer.

[Wacahootie]

That Woodward is a prominent "journalist" is a prime example of just how corrupt the so called profession is today. Woodward was caught red handed lying and creating an imaginary death bed interview with Reagan's CIA director Casey yet he is still one the respected icons of the corrupt media.

According to Casey's Doctors, Casey could not speak or sit up in his hospital bed as Woodward described it. Plus Casey's room was guarded 24/7 by guards and his wife and daughter were at his bedside and all said Woodward was lying about sneaking into Casey's room. When pressed on the Mike Douglas Show, Woodward couldn't even described the furnature inside Casey's hospital room where this death bed interview allegedly took place!

If the journalistic professon had any ethics this confirmed liar would be an outcast. But Woodward is a icon from the Washington Post, the flagship of the Corrupt Liberal Media and the CLM covers for him.

[mware]

Due to the fact that Clinton would not allow Bush's transition team to get daily briefing until after the House had certified the vote, they were not privy to important information for over a month.

I never see anyone bring that up, including the 911 commission.

[Just mythoughts]

Hmmmm, think maybe the liberals are in a paralyzing fear that Condi just might consider a presidential run against the first woman???

That is what I kept thinking when old bj kept promoting Richard Clarke's book as the bible on counter-terrorism.

[angkor]

- Tenant; "Well...I'm not sleeping very well at night and I feel anxious a lot. I've found it's never wise to ignore your premonitions."

Good one.

You're almost ready to graduate from the Bob Woodward School Of Fictional Reporting.

You might add some dialogue about Condi's struggle to prioritize the ballistic missile defense system versus Tenent and Black's premonitions.

[Pharmboy]

Woodward's always been a liar.

[angkor]

Woodward practices a unique and admired form of journalism called "Bob Woodward's Fictional Reporting (tm)."

It's not really true, but it's not really false, either (most of the time).

His sources for previous books get sympathetic payoff treatment in subsequent books. That's a key currency in the "Fictional Reporting" repetoire.

His sources and the subjects of a "Fictional Reporting" treatment often get to construct their own stories and quotes.

For example, do you think Woodward was reporting from the bedroom closet of the Tenent home in Virginia, or was Tenent allowed to add some color by including his "sleepless nights" as fact and directly relevant to the emerging bin Laden threat?

I tend to think that Woodward's bedroom closet days have some to an end.