Politico: How Bush ignored 9/11 warnings

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Politico has a must-read piece on how the Bush administration ignored the warnings from the CIA months before 9/11, along with others that were far more detailed than previously revealed.

By May of 2001, CIA counterterrorism chief Cofer Black said “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.”

http://politicalwire.com/2015/11/13/how-bush-ignored-warnings-about-911/

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1. Nothing was done because people don't usually actively attempt to foil their own plans. nt

[WinkyDink]

8. Perzackly. So much tippy-toeing around the horrific TRUTH.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

10. I'm sick of the tip-toeing around this topic. We all know they did it. nt

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16. Saying that around here

get you called "troofer" or worse. To be taken seriously you must swallow the official "story". Or it's "OFF TO THE 9/11 DUNGEON!" with you.

[Raster]

23. Yes and once you get sentenced to the "Troofer" dungeon, the rovking KILL squads....

...make sure your comments toe the line, or else. Been there, done that.

[KamaAina]

11. I see a Jose Rodriguez, but no Gonzales.

Jose Rodriguez, who oversaw the CIA’s so-called enhanced interrogation program (EIT), has a two-word reply: “That’s bullshit.”

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12. My bad. Will self delete. nt

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3. "he kept us safe"

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5. LOL

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7. but he kept ME safe!

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9. Hahahahaha

Sure did

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24. "he kept us safe" ... part 2

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25. Too good

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26. a fifth thread on this subject ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027340753

You think with five threads anyone in the MSM will take notice? (or is Trump just too important to their ratings to report real news)

[Octafish]

4. ''All right, you've covered your ass.'' -- George W Bush to CIA briefer, August 2001.

Anyone remember James Hatfield?

Karl used him to sheep dip Smirko McCokespoon. Then, he died. Conveniently before 9-11.

The story: Pretzeldent Smirko was attending the G-8 summit at Genoa. Instead of staying on land at a luxury hotel, the commandeer-n-thief chose to sleep aboard a guided missile destroyer. Why? He was warned by Putin that "Osama bin Laden" was planning to attack the conference with hijacked jetliners. Here's the article from July 2001:

Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill Dubya, his former business partner?

By James Hatfield

Editor's note: In light of last week's horrific events and the Bush administration's reaction to them, we are reprising the following from the last column Jim Hatfield wrote for Online Journal prior to his tragic death on July 18:

July 3, 2001—There may be fireworks in Genoa, Italy, this month, too.

A plot by Saudi master terrorist, Osama bin Laden, to assassinate Dubya during the July 20 economic summit of world leaders, was uncovered after dozens of suspected Islamic militants linked to bin Laden's international terror network were arrested in Frankfurt, Germany, and Milan, Italy, in April.

German intelligence services have stated that bin Laden is covertly financing neo-Nazi skinhead groups throughout Europe to launch another terrorist attack at a high-profile American target—his first since the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen last October.

According to counter-terrorism experts quoted in Germany's largest newspaper, the attack on Dubya might be a James Bond-like aerial strike in the form of remote-controlled airplanes packed with plastic explosives.

Why would Osama bi Laden want to kill, Dubya, his former business partner?

CONTINUED...

http://web.archive.org/web/20060906150015/http://www.onlinejournal.org/Special_Reports/Hatfield-R-091901/hatfield-r-091901.html

FTR: The guy died a few days after this was published. A suicide. Hatfield, for all his faults deserved better, like a Pulitzer.

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6. yep ...

[Octafish]

17. AG John Ashcroft was WARNED to stay off commercial flights in July 2001!

Ashcroft Flying High

CBS News
WASHINGTON, July 26, 2001

Fishing rod in hand, Attorney General John Ashcroft left on a weekend trip to Missouri Thursday afternoon aboard a chartered government jet, reports CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart.

In response to inquiries from CBS News over why Ashcroft was traveling exclusively by leased jet aircraft instead of commercial airlines, the Justice Department cited what it called a "threat assessment" by the FBI, and said Ashcroft has been advised to travel only by private jet for the remainder of his term.

"There was a threat assessment and there are guidelines. He is acting under the guidelines," an FBI spokesman said. Neither the FBI nor the Justice Department, however, would identify what the threat was, when it was detected or who made it.

A senior official at the CIA said he was unaware of specific threats against any Cabinet member, and Ashcroft himself, in a speech in California, seemed unsure of the nature of the threat.

"I don't do threat assessments myself and I rely on those whose responsibility it is in the law enforcement community, particularly the FBI. And I try to stay within the guidelines that they've suggested I should stay within for those purposes," Ashcroft said.

Asked if he knew anything about the threat or who might have made it, the attorney general replied, "Frankly, I don't. That's the answer."

CONTINUED...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ashcroft-flying-high/

Johnny Ashcan knew bin Laden was determined to strike in the USA. Too bad for Bush and his madministration that America remembers.

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13. Funny how Condo RICE's "I thought we were doing what needed to be done" ain't so important as Bengha

Benghazi-BENGHAZI-*BENGHAZI*!1

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14. ...

[wagepeace]

15. How Bush Adm ignored 9/ 11 warnings

Please watch PBS The Man Who Knew, FBI Agent John P O'NEILL his clarion call also ignored and for his efforts, ostracized, minimized, eventually left the agency for a new job as head of security at the WTC to begin September 11,2001

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18. will congressional democrats demand investigation?

corporate democrats will not they are wimps. the blood of thousands of americans are on bush and the neo-cons hands and corporate third way democrats say thats in the past and besides are corporate donors would get up set if we started calling republicans traitors!

[Duval]

19. K&R!! eom

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20. "How" isn't the real issue - "why?" is

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22. K&R

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