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Willie Brown got low-key early warning about air travel (Mayor of San Francisco )
The San Francisco Chronicle ^ | September 12, 2001 | Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross

Posted on 09/12/2001 11:27:28 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:38:39 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

For Mayor Willie Brown, the first signs that something was amiss came late Monday when he got a call from what he described as his airport security - - a full eight hours before yesterday's string of terrorist attacks -- advising him that Americans should be cautious about their air travel.


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Thought this early warning was rather interesting.

Not sure what to make of it!

1 posted on 09/12/2001 11:27:28 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Willie got the short-term warning? X42? Was he warned even earlier?
2 posted on 09/12/2001 11:32:42 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
This is *highly* irregular.
3 posted on 09/12/2001 11:39:08 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: newzjunkey
bttt
4 posted on 09/12/2001 11:42:02 PM PDT by kayak
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Bill Clinton and Al Gore are BOTH out of the country.

Has anyone else thought about the question, "How many people are better off today than they were eight years ago?" I can think of two...Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. I also wonder if James Carville thinks 'it's the economy stupid'? Or how about Paul Begalia saying Bush lost the election? I wonder if they think these things are still important enough to get on television and tell us?

I do know that I am sick of politicians with empty words. There should be alot of them hiding their faces in shame. Instead they are giving us sermons and speeches. They're putting on one hell of a show singing God Bless America and attending their prayer services. I wonder how many of them even believe those words? They have kicked God out of every school and they expect us to believe them? I have many questions I need answers to. I want some honest answers for a change. They think they aren't going to have to answer but they are.

I still can't comprehend what has happened. I spent alot of time looking outside today at the green grass and trees. I listened for the birds and watched the squirrels run up and down the tree trunks. Then I turn back to watch the destruction and caos going on in New York and DC. I feel like I'm in a different country. I realize with my eyes that it's happened to my country but I can't get my head to understand.

5 posted on 09/13/2001 1:17:53 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
We keep Willie Brown but have to lose Barbara Olsen.

Maddening.

6 posted on 09/13/2001 1:20:05 AM PDT by StoneColdGOP
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To: StoneColdGOP
Yes and we still have Grayout Davis too!
7 posted on 09/13/2001 1:41:24 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Exactly where the call came from is a bit of a mystery. The mayor would say only that it came from "my security people at the airport."

The FBI should be busy finding out the identities these informants. Are they?

8 posted on 09/13/2001 3:57:26 AM PDT by Rudder
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
When the dust all settles, I think we'll find a lot more people like those mentioned were pre-informed. A lot of people are being duped (again.) by the usual cast of suspects. I just hope a few calmer heads prevail than some hereabouts. Is this a great country, or what?
9 posted on 09/13/2001 4:04:01 AM PDT by karlamayne
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Everyone knew something was up. The official State Department web site issued a generral warning to traveling Americans three weeks age.

It's one thing to know that the enemy is stirring, another to know exactly what to expect.

10 posted on 09/13/2001 4:10:17 AM PDT by js1138
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To: kcvl
I spent alot of time looking outside today at the green grass and trees. I listened for the birds and watched the squirrels run up and down the tree trunks. Then I turn back to watch the destruction and caos going on in New York and DC. I feel like I'm in a different country. I realize with my eyes that it's happened to my country but I can't get my head to understand.

I know exactly how you feel. I'm in a rural area, nothing has changed here on the outside. The grass needs mowing, the cantaloupe needs picking, my beautiful children play happily, everything is lush and green, simply idyllic. But inside, there is a visceral anger and sadness that I just can't shake.

On a different note, what is with the "Loose lips sink ships" on the reply page? LOL. It just lightened my mood here.

11 posted on 09/13/2001 4:18:08 AM PDT by Marie Antoinette
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On a different note, what is with the "Loose lips sink ships" on the reply page? LOL. It just lightened my mood here.

There was a thread running imploring folks not to post information about impending military actions. click to read

12 posted on 09/13/2001 4:35:55 AM PDT by mombonn
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I heard once that stuff like this comes in all the time, some loonie gets on a payphone and makes a bomb scare or whatever.
13 posted on 09/13/2001 4:40:28 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Nothing irregular here!

It is called honor amoung thieves.

They know Willie has already caused more damage to the United States than they ever will.

Why not protect him.

14 posted on 09/13/2001 4:46:43 AM PDT by eFudd
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To: mombonn
Thanks mombonn! I'll keep all my classified military expertise to myself ;-)
15 posted on 09/13/2001 4:57:21 AM PDT by Marie Antoinette
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To: Marie Antoinette
We received a warning from the State Dept for our overseas students about a possible terrorist attack on 9/11.
16 posted on 09/13/2001 4:58:40 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: AppyPappy
Wrong hemisphere, huh?
17 posted on 09/13/2001 5:50:32 AM PDT by Marie Antoinette
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Whatever the case, Brown didn't think about it again until he was up, dressed and waiting for his ...

In other words they can't verify the phone call but it sounds like a good story. If it was the Stae Dept. he would have certainly said so. Makes him sound important...
Willie Brown is always one to get attention. Take a simple phone call from some nervous old lady who read an newspaper about overseas air travel, eliminate the source, look concerned and all of a sudden Willie's in the national news.

18 posted on 09/13/2001 5:50:54 AM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach - Joe Andrew, former DNC Chairman switched flights at the last minute
From today's Wall Street Journal:

Joe Andrew, a Washington lawyer and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, had a ticket for seat 6-C on the ill-fated American Airlines flight 77 from Dulles International Airport to Los Angeles, but switched to a later flight at the last minute. "I happen to be a person of faith," says Mr. Andrew, "but even if you aren't, anybody who holds a ticket for a flight that went down. ... will become a person of faith."

I was going to post the entire piece, it's called "For Some, Avoiding Tragedy Seemed Like Pure Chance".

19 posted on 09/13/2001 8:05:33 AM PDT by mombonn
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To: mombonn
Very coincidental, right? Listen to me. The coincidences are piling up. They are horrendously piling up.

Clinton out of the country. (safe)

Gore out of the country. (safe)

The plane that hits the Pentagon buzzes the Congress - but goes for the Pentagon. (Hillary Safe)

Barbara Olsen - arch enemy of the Clintons on hijacked plane.(another Clinton enemy dead)

Democrat leader scheduled for that same plane - takes later one - (safe)

Willie Brown - Democrat leader - warned in advance (safe) Air Force One a target - credible info - because "code" was used that only "insiders would know" - William Safire hints at "mole" in the White House giving this information to enemies of this country.

It is too horrible for most Americans to contemplate. Which is why most Americans have and will poo poo any talk of the Clintons connections to any of this.

At the least we know the Clintons dismantled White House security (see Unlimited Access by Gary Aldrich, FBI).

At the least we know that the Bill Clinton PARDONED TERRORISTS (FALN - Puerto Rican - but TERRORISTS ARE TERRORISTS). (terrorists safe)

At the least we know that Hillary Clinton embraced and advocated for a Palestinian state, becoming a HERO OF THE PLO AND MAKING INSTANT FRIENDS AMONG THEM. (PLO friends protected by the Clintons as long as they were in power - then when HRC went for the Senate - she had to pretend to be "friends" to Jews - what a lie!)

At the least, we know that the FBI and the CIA and even INTERPOL were filled with FRIENDS OF BILL CLINTON in the top echelons - and that there has not been enough time to clean out these agencies of people whose loyalties are NOT TO THIS COUNTRY but to THE CLINTONS!!!!!

At the least we KNOW that the Clintons accepted money from known organized crime (TERRORISTS) and Chinese Communist (TERRORISTS) thugs.

Americans MUST UNDERSTAND that we have enemies WITHIN! People here know who these enemies are - at least the visible ones. Hopefully, now that we are AT WAR, the Bush administration will be freed to clear out the traitors and put in honest Americans. Perhaps some of our own need to volunteer!

20 posted on 09/13/2001 8:21:21 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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