NEW DETAILS: "CIA repeatedly and urgently began to warn the White House that an attack was coming"
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/11/cia-directors-documentary-911-bush-213353THE FRIDAY COVER
‘The Attacks Will Be Spectacular’
An exclusive look at how the Bush administration ignored this warning from the CIA months before 9/11, along with others that were far more detailed than previously revealed.
By CHRIS WHIPPLE November 12, 2015
“Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” The CIA’s famous Presidential Daily Brief, presented to George W. Bush on August 6, 2001, has always been Exhibit A in the case that his administration shrugged off warnings of an Al Qaeda attack. But months earlier, starting in the spring of 2001, the CIA repeatedly and urgently began to warn the White House that an attack was coming.
By May of 2001, says Cofer Black, then chief of the CIA’s counterterrorism center, “it was very evident that we were going to be struck, we were gonna be struck hard and lots of Americans were going to die.” “There were real plots being manifested,” Cofer’s former boss, George Tenet, told me in his first interview in eight years. “The world felt like it was on the edge of eruption. In this time period of June and July, the threat continues to rise. Terrorists were disappearing (as if in hiding, in preparation for an attack). Camps were closing. Threat reportings on the rise.” The crisis came to a head on July 10. The critical meeting that took place that day was first reported by Bob Woodward in 2006. Tenet also wrote about it in general terms in his 2007 memoir At the Center of the Storm.
But neither he nor Black has spoken about it publicly in such detail until now—or been so emphatic about how specific and pressing their warnings really were. Over the past eight months, in more than a hundred hours of interviews, my partners Jules and Gedeon Naudet and I talked with Tenet and the 11 other living former CIA directors for The Spymasters, a documentary set to air this month on Showtime.
The drama of failed warnings began when Tenet and Black pitched a plan, in the spring of 2001, called “the Blue Sky paper” to Bush’s new national security team. It called for a covert CIA and military campaign to end the Al Qaeda threat—“getting into the Afghan sanctuary, launching a paramilitary operation, creating a bridge with Uzbekistan.” “And the word back,” says Tenet, “‘was ‘we’re not quite ready to consider this. We don’t want the clock to start ticking.’” (Translation: they did not want a paper trail to show that they’d been warned.) Black, a charismatic ex-operative who had helped the French arrest the terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal, says the Bush team just didn’t get the new threat: “I think they were mentally stuck back eight years (before). They were used to terrorists being Euro-lefties—they drink champagne by night, blow things up during the day, how bad can this be? And it was a very difficult sell to communicate the urgency to this.”
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There are various people involved and their motive varys likewise ("Was Cheney really trying to put the Vietnam disaster to rest?"
, and it is always the case that much remains hidden.
On the other hand self-interest and low cunning are often an excellent heuristic approach for guessing what they will do next.
It is certainly true that you cannot understand the long sweep of the Neocons Folly by only paying attention to how they got it started.
But it is also true that the USA has a long history of provoking wars with people it wanted to invade for various reasons, but usually either to play little tin gods or to grab land and resources.
The BFEE has a lot of assassins on its payroll, ever since Poppy's days with the CIA.
As Diesel Mechanic for the last 38 yrs, I can testify that all the diesel fuel in the world could not burn down a building framed and blanketed with steel and bolstered with cement floors and panels. The explanation that Jet fuel (simple high test diesel) burnt those buildings is PURE CRAP. Anything after that is just fill in the gaps
admitted by NIST. The only way a skyscraper can fall at *FREE FALL* is if there's noting under what is falling. That's simply a fact.
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And if "office fires" can do that (first and last time in history) no high rise in the US is safe.
“I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you!” 9/11/01 w bush
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On 8/6/01 when w bush was handed a CIA brief that warned about bin Laden
using hijacked planes to attack Washington D.C. and N.Y.C. w told the CIA
person the following; “All right. You’ve covered your ass, now.”
(must see video)
into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile.
Condoleezza Rice
Press conference, May 16, 2002
By Islamic terrorists
but later silenced, about how 9/11 took place. Bush knew, but so did half of the USA (Atty General, military chiefs of staff, CEO's of large corporations, etc). And it was the wife of the king in Saudi Arabia (George Bush's "godfather" that financed the terrorists. It was no surprise on DU who did what back then. LIHOP and MIHOP was the only debate.
