Tempest
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posted 12-25-2006 12:06 AM
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And Bush's response to the briefing? This is how "detail-oriented" the Bush Administration is:
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"For America, 9/11 was more than a tragedy -- it changed the way we look at the world."George W. Bush
Address to the Nation
September 11, 2006
The alarming August 6, 2001, memo from the CIA to the President -- "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US" -- has been widely noted in the past few years.
But, also in August, CIA analysts flew to Crawford to personally brief the President -- to intrude on his vacation with face-to-face alerts.The analytical arm of the CIA was in a kind of panic mode at this point. Other intelligence services, including those from the Arab world, were sounding an alarm. The arrows were all in the red. They didn't know the place or time of an attack, but something was coming. The President needed to know . . .
George W. Bush seems to have made the wrong choice. He looked hard at the panicked CIA briefer.
"All right," he said. "You've covered your ass now."Ron Suskind
The One Percent Doctrine
2006
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http://billmon.org/archives/002723.html"You've covered your ass now."
All because George (the guy who could care who lives and who dies) Bush didn't want to be bothered on vacation, he ignored the memo and went back to fishing and clearing brush.
No special measures, no increased security for New York City, no special new security measures for the airlines to follow - what a loser.
So either he intentionally allowed it to happen, or wasn't interested enough in trying to stop it.
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