Preparing for The Next Pearl Harbor Attack (JUNE 2001, Bush team addressing terrorism threat)

Insight Magazine ^ | June 18, 2001 | J. Michael Waller

[cyncooper]

I was piloting an airline trip on 9/11, mid-Pacific from Osaka Japan to San Francisco when the jihad battle began. For months, we had received warnings from the FAA and our company that their was an increased chance of hijack. Unfortunately, the "standing order" was to cooperate with hijackers and yield to their demands. It was conceivable, but nobody could believe, hijackers would slaughter all onboard and use the aircraft itself as a flying bomb.

Your post gave me goosebumps. And once again verifies what Bush administration officials testified to last week, but that got ignored in favor of Clarke mania.

Thanks for giving us that "insight".

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the ping to a great article.

I think we are getting Clarke's background and motivations figured out pretty well now.

Some nice additional facts here for sure.

By the way I added the keyword "CLARKE"

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

More revelations here:

Dr. Kay Had Maps with Coordinates of WMD Hiding Places in Syria

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

bumping so you can read this

[cyncooper]

I just found out that Richard Clarke is the guest on Meet the Press tomorrow so emailed MTP.

[NormsRevenge]

Gee, I wonder what Timmy will ask him?

Thanks for the headsup and post of this lil jewel. :-)

[MJY1288]

I wonder if 60 Minutes will devote two segments on this?

[rwfromkansas]

Hmmm. Bill Moyers raised the report yesterday evening, but he did not use it to bash Bush.

He said that one thing that intrigued him was that there was that major report and everybody ignored it...including himself and the rest of the media. At least Moyers understood that many people were asleep at the wheel, not one person. (And Bush wasn't one of them who was according to the info coming out).

[cyncooper]

I did send it to Fox, Rush and Meet the Press. I see others are sending it to various media.

Please, anybody who wants to send it out, please do.

[cyncooper]

Thank you for that. I did not realize Waller has testified before Congress on this issue, though I'm not surprised with his credentials.

[cyncooper]

I remember very very cleary a story in the Chicago Tribune in June of 2001 in which Rice and others were issuing a warning that Al-Qaeda was likely involved in planning "a large attack" or words to that effect, that it could be domestic.

You can bet if you remember it, then some media and dems remember it but have their own reasons for "forgetting".

Just like you can bet Jim Angle wasn't the only one to remember that briefing Clarke gave to him and *other reporters*. Yet Angle was the only one who stepped forward to demonstrate the two faces of Dick Clarke.

[cyncooper]

if you follow the link you provided to the original article and click "Print" at the bottom, the printer-friendly version is displayed in a separate window with the date in it.

Thanks for that informative tip.

[cyncooper]

Whoa. Will read your link in a bit when I have time to absorb it.

[cyncooper]

Bill Moyers raised the report yesterday evening, but he did not use it to bash Bush.

He said that one thing that intrigued him was that there was that major report and everybody ignored it...including himself and the rest of the media. At least Moyers understood that many people were asleep at the wheel, not one person. (And Bush wasn't one of them who was according to the info coming out).

It appears the left decided a couple days ago to wave around this Hart-Rudman report and claim it was completed at the end of January yet was ignored by the new administration.

As I noted, someone posted this spin to me yesterday, which sent me off to do research. I asked this person what that had to do with Richard Clarke, and why, just because a point by point adoption of the H-R reprt wasn't done, how does that prove the Bush adm wasn't doing anything? Needless to say I did not get a reply.

One talking point was it was the H-R report that proposed a Department of Homeland Security, and it was asserted that since the creation of such a Department was not completed before 9/11, that the suggestion was ignored. That has been flat-out proven to be a false assertion.

[js1138]

How about we send it to some news organizations?

Note that if you click this link, it takes you to the original article which has an email button. How hard would it be for freepers to email the original to every journalist whose email address we know?

[js1138]

If you link to the article that doesn't display the date, then click for the printer friendly version, it displays the issue date.

[cyncooper]

Here are some recent columns from leftists backing Clarke and citing the Hart-Rudman Commission:

Clarke's book shows why Bush fears truth

Joe Conason, March 24, 2004

Choice excerpts:

Mr. Clarke is a nonpartisan professional

~snip~

His book confirms in detail what some of us have long suspected: During the first nine months of 2001, the Bush administration largely ignored loud alarms about Al Qaeda sounded by Mr. Clarke, by C.I.A. director George Tenet and by other former Clinton administration officials. Preoccupied with national missile defense, the scuttling of the Kyoto and anti-ballistic-missile treaties and, above all, with Iraq, the administration had no time for the terrorist threat until too late.

~snip~

AND

A sad tale of arrogance and ignorance

Molly Ivins, Mary 25, 2004

Choice excerpts:

This thesis is born out by the eerily prescient and tragically ignored Hart-Rudman report on terrorism, presented on Jan. 31, 2001.

~snip~

The whole discouraging process of plans ready to go and prepared but delayed by Bush people whose priorities were elsewhere was repeated internally with Richard Clarke's recommendations.

~snip~

[Peach]

Great idea!!!

Should we wait until Monday morning and make it a special thread or just use bump lists and ask Freepers to mail to news organization.

BTW, thanks to doug from upland, here's a link to news organizations:

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1105724/posts

[wtc911]

ping

[js1138]

OK, here's the emailable article.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1571/23_17/75706939/p1/article.jhtml
and here's the list of email addresses
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1105724/posts
together on one post.