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Ex-CIA director: White House ignored months of warnings about 9/11 to avoid leaving paper trail of culpability
Tom Boggioni Raw Story
13 Nov 2015 at 11:43 ET
In an explosive revelation during an interview with Politico, the former CIA director during President George W. Bushs administration claims his department informed White house officials over impending Al Qaeda attacks months before the president received the infamous Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S. presidential briefing.
According to ex-CIA head George Tenet and Cofer Black, then chief of the CIAs counterterrorism center, they called an emergency meeting with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice on July 10 of 2001 saying they had evidence that an attack on the U.S. was imminent and that it would be spectacular.
Beginning in May of 2001, Tenet and Black launched an initiative called the Blue Sky paper and pitched it to Bushs national security team. The CIA called for a joint CIA and military campaign to end the Al Qaeda threat by getting into the Afghan sanctuary, launching a paramilitary operation, creating a bridge with Uzbekistan.
More: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/ex-cia-director-bush-ignored-months-of-warnings-about-911-to-avoid-leaving-paper-trail-of-culpability/
underpants
(182,829 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)First Poppy, then Tenet.
In any case it is good to see them fighting amongst themselves over who gets to be the sacrificial goat.
librechik
(30,674 posts)my guess is the loose cannon attacks from Trump (and others?) are making it hot there inside the bubble.
the emperor's clothes are coming off, piece by piece.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)I was wondering if there was some new report that was coming out unredacted or something. All this looking backwards just seems so uncharacteristic.
deminks
(11,014 posts)There has been lots of alternating clutching of the pearls and downplaying the report as nothing new across the pond, too. The poodle came very close to apologizing for something just the other day.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)But that just widens the possibilities. The sheer debacle-ness of what is happening in the Middle East now might have something to do with it.
Glitterati
(3,182 posts)This looks like a concerted campaign by someone to remind this country just how bad the Bushes have been for us all.
To prevent Jeb from taking over the throne.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Nothing to fear now?
Hmmm.
UTUSN
(70,711 posts)Benghazi-BENGHAZI-*BENGHAZI*!1
Sounded like you sneezed.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Holly_Hobby
(3,033 posts)Didn't we know about this like on 9/12?
kentuck
(111,103 posts)They have a book coming out?
napkinz
(17,199 posts)young_at_heart
(3,769 posts)Where oh where is the outrage?
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Tee hee giggles everyone! Right? I know who will be avoiding this thread.
lark
(23,105 posts)Pure and simple, they are responsible for 9/11.
libodem
(19,288 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)n. planning, plotting or deliberating before doing something. Premeditation is an element in first degree murder and shows intent to commit that crime. (See: malice aforethought, murder, first degree murder)