[BJClinton]

By the time I had cut-n-pasted the article they had corrected it. But the article is still quite loaded. They don't even mention Clinton was the President for most of this time frame until the very end. I'm still searching for the Washington Post error.

[uncbob]

The Washington Post said Saturday that a top-secret briefing memo presented to President Bush in 1998 focused on efforts by Osama bin Laden to strike at targets in the U.S.

Bush wasn't president in 1998 Clinton was

[GretchenEE]

CLINTON CLINTON CLINTON CLINTON CLINTON

Who do we blame?

Once more, folks:

CLINTON
DIVERTED AND STUPEFIED AT THE HELM
COUNTING HIS CHINESE COINS DAY BY DAY

[Jeff Chandler]

I wish Bush would abondon his "new tone" and b!+(h-slap those lying SOB's over this. Use this opportunity to show the American sheeple what they really are. I wish 50 dollar bills grew on vines, too.

[Izzy Dunne]

BREAKING NEWS: The Washington Post will report in its Sunday edition that President Bush and his Attorney General John Ashcroft were indeed behind the massacre at Waco on April 19, 1993. Sources within the Bush administration have told the Wash. Post that they did it because "those folks were nuts".

[livius]

You mentioned cut-and-paste. Was the bit about Bush a direct quote from the article, or did it get transformed in the cutting and pasting?

If it was a direct quote, didn't they know that Bush wasn't President in 1998? Didn't they know who was?

[goodnesswins]

We should post "CLYMER ALERTS".......for these type of things

[gov_bean_ counter]

Mr. Clinton ... said he knew about the dangerous potential of bin Laden, but discounted the suggestion that the 1999 analysis should have alerted his administration to the possibility of a terrorist attack on the scale of the September 11 attacks.

"That has nothing to do with intelligence," Mr. Clinton told the Associated Press while in Hawaii on a two-day stopover on the way to East Timor. "All that says is they used public sources to speculate on what bin Laden might do. That doesn't have anything to do with what the intelligence people, the CIA or the FBI, tell the administration."

The implications of this line of thinking are chilling. Does anyone think that a position paper on national security threats contracted by intel agencies would only use information in the public domain? These folks get high level clearances and see it all to make their threat assessments. If Clinton had ever met with his National Security team he may have understood this.

[MrRepublic]

The insipid enemy continues his spite-filled attacks. Flee from the donkey! Flee! --- Or just point out these stupid errors and prove to your doubting friends what really is going on in our media. Am I the only who finds it humorous when media pinheads call Bush & Co. 'corrupt'? I sure hope not...

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

You are correct that this is loaded. First the Washington Post states that they learned that in '98 President Bush was given a top secret report.

Do they mean former President Bush? Why would the then Governor Bush, who may not have even announced he was running for President have been given a top secret report? I could see his father getting one for 2 reasons, 1. The first President Bush had been President, and 2. The first President Bush had been in charge of the CIA.

Something else I noticed was a place where they talked about intelligence that indicated that Al Queada were planning on flying planes loaded with explosives into buildings somehow got turned into, Bush knew that suicide bombers were going to hijack planes and fly them into buildings. The first sentence I would have thought might mean use small planes with lots of explosives, as oppossed to hijacked planes.

Hindsight is 20/20. Until September 11th I never would have thought that the fuel from a jumbo jet would be used as a missile at a building.

[TomGuy]

The editor responsible for letting this garbled article ever get published needs to return to school:

The Washington Post reports that a 1998 memo to the president was entitled, “Bin Laden Determined To Strike In U.S” and focused mainly on past efforts by the alleged terrorist mastermind to infiltrate the U.S. and hit targets here.

The document, known as the President's Daily Briefing, underscored that bin Laden and his followers hoped to "bring the fight to America," in part as retaliation for U.S. missile strikes on al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan in 1998, the Post quotes knowledgeable sources as saying.

Mr. Bush had specifically asked for an intelligence analysis of possible al Qaeda attacks within the U.S., because most of the information presented to him over the summer about al Qaeda focused on threats against U.S. targets overseas, sources told the Post.

The writer appears to be mixing dates relevant to the previous administration in with references to the current administration. Is this to confuse or imply?

[BJClinton]

They've replaced it with:

The Washington Post reported Saturday that a 1998 top-secret briefing memo to the president was entitled, “Bin Laden Determined To Strike In U.S” and focused mainly on past efforts by the alleged terrorist mastermind to infiltrate the U.S. and hit targets here.

Still, no mention that my namesake was President at the time. While not outright dishonest, it is still misleading. When one says "the President" the current President usually comes to mind.

[SICSEMPERTYRANNUS]

Democrats insisted their motive was simply to help avoid Sept. 11-like attacks in the future.

The smear is not taking "on the street." They are backing off. lol

[harpo11]

Based on the information received by Clinton why the hell didn't he, supposedly the smartest president Americans were ever blessed to have elected according to his pals in the press, investigate flight school attendees of Middle Eastern background?

Oh, I forgot, the king of PC couldn't inspire himself to do something like his job description requires such as protecting and defending Americans and her borders, but would rather run around while working hard for the American people in the oval office with a loose cigar with his pants falling around his knobby knees in between fundraising, entertaining in the Lincoln Bedroom, serving coffee and posing for Esquire Magazine.

Mrs. Clinton perhaps instead of appearing like such a sainted politician who is only asking the questions your constituents want asked why did you not ever ask your own dear husband back in the good old days when you co-presidents occupied the White House "what he knew, when did he know it and what did he do about it?"

[gunshy]

If I were Bush, I would demand back pay.

[WFTR]

The short version is that we've all known about the possibility of using planes as a weapon since Tom Clancy wrote about it in the early 90's. It shouldn't surprise anyone that terrorists would have thought about it both before and after Clancy's book was published. In the late 90's, there were warnings. Some of them were little more that government elaborations on Clancy's story. Others were specific concerns that were ignored by the administration in power at that time. The Clinton FBI probably couldn't find the time to pass along terrorist warnings when it was so busy cross-referencing people who bought guns and Bibles and delivering Repubican files to the Clinton White House. When the time came to transition to the Bush administration, they couldn't be bothered with passing along active tips because they were too busy selling pardons and stealing the furniture.

WFTR
Bill

[alnick]

Yes, they corrected it all right. They corrected it to read "the president." They clearly are hoping that the attention spans of the readers are limited enough to think that that refers to Bush.

[Young Werther]

Finally we have hard evidence against Bush. Not only did he fail to act on the 1998 briefing but there is hard evidence that he failed to send the CIA orders to deliver the air support for the Bay of Pigs.

Then there was his inaction during those harrowing days when he failed to lead the lost battalion from there redoubt in Bella Woods.

Did I mention the Second Battle of Bull Run!

Of course there is incontroverible evidence that he failed to stop the Turks at the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

Yep the Democraps have him dead to rights. However, their grade in History is F- and they are sent to the corner with a Dunce Cap! You too Hildebeast!

[timydnuc]

Incredible, now the commie press is trying to bend time! Where is Uncle Albert (Einstein) when we need him.

The commies are coming out of the woodwork in a maniacial frenzy as never before. They are also showing their collective a$$es...........good job! They are so incredibly arrogant as to believe that the American people suck up their pond scum. They are soooooo wrong! In fact, the American people are wraping their fish in the NY Slimes, and the Wash. compost. As for the Socialist media, TV ratings are in the tank, can you guess why? There is a huge majority of good old American people that see through this crap, and they are not being propaganized, they are getting pi$$ed!

[Voyager2]

Someone needs to inform the communist that under our Constitution, the people elect a president every four years! Now frankly, I'm not going to tell CBS anything. How could I, they already know everything according to them!

[Kay Soze]

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