Waiting for the Bush-bots on this forum to explain what is so conspiratorial about basic stuff like:
“The Bush White House ignored even more warnings about September 11 than we thought, according to journalist Kurt Eichenwald, who has a column in the NYT and a new book out today.
We already knew about the presidential brief from Aug. 6, 2001 that was titled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” The White House has shown that this declassified document was primarily a history of Al Qaeda, not a warning of imminent attack.
But there were other briefings, some seen by Eichenwald, that did warn of an imminent attack.
On May 1 the CIA said that a terrorist group in the U.S. was planning an attack.
On June 22 it warned that this attack was “imminent.”
On June 29 the brief warned of near-term attacks with “dramatic consequences” including major casualties.
On July 1, the briefing said that the terrorist attack had been delayed but “will occur soon.”
On July 24, the president was told again that the attack had been delayed but would occur within months.”
Blame Bush or don’t blame Bush, but you can’t sit there and claim that they had fears of an impending attack as a major priority. Even after 911, the SAME immigration policies and refusal to enforce the law that enabled 911 was kept in place.
And not one of those warnings alluded to hijacking planes and flying them into buildings. The MO for al-Qaeda up until then had been suicide bombings on the ground.
Such warnings crop up on intelligence reports continuously and most turn out to be in error. It is very difficult to determine, when hearing a thousand little bells ringing, which is the one that signals something important. It gets much easier after the fact to point at the right bell, as you Michael Moore and Donald Trump are doing.
There is a certain lack of specificity in all of those “predictions”.
The only effective response, rounding up and expelling people based on race, creed, and national origin, is so alien to the American Way that I doubt more than 10,000 in the country would have considered it on 9/10.
It would have been an eventual national scandal outdoing the internment of Japanese-Americans (hate hyphenation but it’s the language) during WW2 (oh and certain German- and Italian-Americans too, but so far they and their descendants haven’t turned into a lot of whiny annoyances about it).