Posted on 05/17/2002 7:20:27 AM PDT by Hipixs
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On August 6, 2001 the president received a presidential daily briefing that was an analytic report, not a warning briefing. It was an analytic report that talked about bin Laden's historic methods of operation from 1997-1998.
-Condoleezza Rice- May 16, 2001 CNN
Hold ! Enough !
Those who watch this stupid woman have evidently already seen enough of her colon !
I don't watch this stupid perky woman, so I can't testify thereto from first hand knowledge.
Boy ,oh boy did you hit the nail on the head! ROTFL BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Rumsfeld: I'm not familiar with the remarks you're referring to.
Couric: Well, he basically said that an investigation was warranted to find out why more action wasn't taken.
Rumsfeld: He being the vice president?
Couric: No, this is Dick Shelby of Alabama, Senator Shelby.
Rumsfeld: Sure, he's on the Intelligence Committee, and the Congress has oversight responsibility. And certainly that's perfectly appropriate.
Katie, Rumsfeld is a man who was analyzing geopolitical affairs while you were still trying to figure out your training bra. Try to keep that in mind, willya honey?
Ms.Couric; Richard Shelby Republican of Alabama also stated the congress had got the same briefings as the President..... Ms.Couric; isn't this selective reporting on your part
Rummy should've told her to shove it up her Butt.
The Bush administration should ignore these liberal media midgets and stop doing interviews with Democrat tainted media types, such as Katie the Cave Troll Couric.
Who directs the FBI, CIA, etc.? Who is the commander in chief? Trying to pass the blame on to Congress and Clinton is rediculous. If a company fails the CEO usually shoulders the blame because he is the guy in charge of making sure the company succeeds. He doesn’t blame the preceeding CEO or his vice-presidents. As current President, Bush must take the heat and responsibility for the failure that led to 9/11.
As for the comments that warnings like this occur every day, check out these quotes. "Something really spectacular is going to happen here, and it's going to happen soon," the government's top counterterrorism official at the time, Richard Clarke, told the assembled group...
CIA Director George Tenet had been "nearly frantic" with concern since June 22, one source said. A written intelligence summary for National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said on June 28: "It is highly likely that a significant al-Qaida attack is in the near future, within several weeks." By late summer, one senior political appointee said, Tenet had "repeated this so often that people got tired of hearing it."
That certainly doesn’t sound like a generic, run-of-the-mill warning.
(snip) In August 1998, the chair of the National Commission on Terrorism, Paul Bremer, wrote in the Washington Post, "The ideology of [terrorist] groups makes them impervious to political or diplomatic pressures ... We cannot seek a political solution with them." He then proposed that we, "defend ourselves. Beef up security around potential targets here and abroad….Attack the enemy. Keep up the pressure on terrorist groups. Show that we can be as systematic and relentless as they are. Crush bin Laden's operations by pressure and disruption. The U.S. government further should announce a large reward for bin Laden's capture—dead or alive."
Bremer was not alone. Given these warnings, as Andrew Sullivan observes, "Whatever excuses the Clintonites can make, they cannot argue that the threat wasn't clear, that the solution wasn't proposed, that a strategy for success hadn't been outlined. Everything necessary to prevent September 11 had been proposed in private and in public, in government reports and on op-ed pages, for eight long years. The Clinton Administration simply refused to do anything serious about the threat."
On January 20, 2001, George W. Bush was sworn in as the 43rd president of the United States. Within months of taking office, he ordered a new strategy for combating terrorism that would be more than just "swatting at flies," as he described Clinton's policy. The new plan reached the President's desk on September 10, 2001. It was "too late," as columnist Andrew Sullivan wrote, "But it remains a fact that the new administration had devised in eight months a strategy that Bill Clinton had delayed for eight years." (/snip)
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