White House: Bush Was Warned of Hijack Threat-Lawmakers Seek Hijack Report Probe (AOL SCREEN)

AOL ^ | 05.16.02 | AP-via AOL FRONT PAGE

[Registered]

Just look at what the millions of AOL SHEEPLE are seeing as the lead in when they sign in. Bush has got to put a kabosh to this ASAP!!!

KAREN HUGHES! WHERE ARE YOU!?!?!

[Dane]

You subscribe to AOL?

Sheesh the scandal here is that you waste $23.95 a month.

[toupsie]

This is a HUGE Democrat/Mainstream Press story plant. They bombed with the 9/11 photo now they are going nuclear against the President. My Congressman, Nadler, was just as low as you could get today on TV with his comments. I have also heard that Rep. McKinney is saying she is now proved right about Bush knowing about 9/11.

Its time for President Bush to take that "new tone" and shove it up the collective butts of the Congressional Democrats and the Press.

[toupsie]

Remember that some of the terrorists on the plane didn't even know what was going on according to videotaped statements of Usama. If they didn't even know they were going to be suicide bombers, how could we?

[X918]

Not only did Bush know of the threat but the entire American public knew as well when Xlintoon the Impeached Arkansas Trailer Trash Impeached and Disbarred Rapist ,let Osama have a free pass.

AOL trying to get the soccer moms ,teenyboppers and pedophiles worked up....pathetic.

[Dazedcat]

Not to mention the fact that French Intelligence foiled a plot by hijackers to fly a plane into the Eiffel Tower prior to the TWC attacks. I suppose it would be too much to link that with these warnings that were received.

But in another thread, I've gotten slammed for even hinting that the Bush administration SHOULD be questioned for prior knowledge and held accountable, as well as the Federal agencies.

Just blame Clinton........it's easier.

[Registered]

I think you're analysis is probably correct, however it would have required actual leg-work and logic from the FBI...

[callisto]

When exactly did Congressional Democrats know? Aha, that's right...Pre-911.

Edwards and Burr on committees that got pre-9/11 briefings Kevin Begos
JOURNAL WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON -- Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C. and Rep. Richard Burr, R-5th are members of Congressional intelligence committees that got pre-Sept. 11 briefings about the possibility that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network might hijack American airliners.

But the two politicians are responding to questions about what they knew and when they knew it in quite different ways.

Asked specifically if he knew in August about the general warning that Al Qaida might be planning to hijack planes, Edwards was vague.

"I don't know. Not that I'm aware of," said Edwards, who is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

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[Steve_Seattle]

For the past six months, the administration has been criticized and even ridiculed for publically announcing vague, non-specific terrorist threats based on intelligence reports they have recieved. Now, they are being criticized for NOT having publically announced vague, non-specific terrorist threats. Similarly, they have been criticized for singling out Middle-Eastern men for suspicion of terrorist activity, and are now being criticized for NOT singling them out.

[Timesink]

Judging from the online polls they run, AOL's membership leans VERY conservative. Remember, it serves lots of older midwestern types with no other ISP options in their small towns and/or no desire to deal with anything beyond pushing a button and "being on the Internet." These types vote Republican. Their headline will have no effect.

[KQQL]

Relax .....Before 9-11 Hijacking did not EQUAL Planes being used as Missle.

American Airlines have been Hijacked many times before..............Plus before 9-11 ...Americans were not ready to give up their freedom on planes and airports..so no one would have listed to W or the US GOVT

[dawn53]

This story will bomb too, in fact, my prediction is that it will backfire on the Dems.

It's sooooo obvious that they are trying to "pin" something, anything, on him.

Looks so partisan to point the finger, they were briefed too.

It will be old news in days, not weeks. Just another case of the media and Dems getting hysterical just like they did with Enron, and the President shirking his duties in the Middle East.

Did it have any effect on his ratings? No, people are smarter since 9/11, they've gotten wise to the press, and hopefully the dems strategy of hyping everything that comes down the pike.

[lodwick]

Another excellent example of why NOT to have anything TimeWarner in one's home. bttt

[Timesink]

Asked specifically if he knew in August about the general warning that Al Qaida might be planning to hijack planes, Edwards was vague.

While it's tangential to this thread, this is just one more piece of evidence that Edwards is nowhere near being up to a serious run for president. If he tries, he'll be eaten alive by the press and his RAT primary opponents.

[backhoe]

I gotta run, but you nailed it!

[toupsie]

So you are now going to accept evidence from Hollywood actors and call it golden? What's next? FBI tips from People Magazine? Anti-terrorism advice from Rosie O'Donnell? James Wood's description of four men was a crumb of evidence. It would have taken a mountain of crumbs to pinpoint to what happened on 9/11. As someone who lives next to what was the WTC, it is making me sick hearing all of these Monday morning Quarterback comments. Our only opportunity to prevent 9/11 only occured during the Clinton Administration when Usama was offered to us by Sudan. But that jerk pissed away that chance.

No one, ever, expected four jets to be hijacked and rammed into major buildings before 9/11 and still today we can't believe that is what Usama had planned.

[Registered]

True, but remember, this is an AP story with an AOL headline.