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In reply to the discussion: Answers sought on CIA role in ‘78 JFK probe [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)49. New NSA docs contradict Bush Administration 9-11 claims

New NSA docs contradict 9/11 claims
I dont think the Bush administration would want to see these released," an expert tells Salon
By Jordan Michael Smith
Salon.com
Tuesday, Jun 19, 2012 04:24 PM EDT
Over 120 CIA documents concerning 9/11, Osama bin Laden and counterterrorism were published today for the first time, having been newly declassified and released to the National Security Archive. The documents were released after the NSA pored through the footnotes of the 9/11 Commission and sent Freedom of Information Act requests.
The material contains much new information about the hunt before and after 9/11 for bin Laden, the development of the drone campaign in AfPak, and al-Qaidas relationship with Americas ally, Pakistan. Perhaps most damning are the documents showing that the CIA had bin Laden in its cross hairs a full year before 9/11 but didnt get the funding from the Bush administration White House to take him out or even continue monitoring him. The CIA materials directly contradict the many claims of Bush officials that it was aggressively pursuing al-Qaida prior to 9/11, and that nobody could have predicted the attacks. I dont think the Bush administration would want to see these released, because they paint a picture of the CIA knowing something would happen before 9/11, but they didnt get the institutional support they needed, says Barbara Elias-Sanborn, the NSA fellow who edited the materials.
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Former National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice has taken credit for the drone program that the Bush administration ignored. Things like working to get an armed Predator that actually turned out to be extraordinarily important, working to get a strategy that would allow us to get better cooperation from Pakistan and from the Central Asians, she said in 2006. We were not left a comprehensive strategy to fight al-Qaida. Rice claimed that the Bush administration continued the Clinton administrations counterterrorism policies, a claim the documents disprove. If the administration wanted to get it done, Im sure they could have gotten it done, says Elias-Sanborn.
Many of the documents publicize for the first time what was first made clear in the 9/11 Commission: The White House received a truly remarkable amount of warnings that al-Qaida was trying to attack the United States. From June to September 2001, a full seven CIA Senior Intelligence Briefs detailed that attacks were imminent, an incredible amount of information from one intelligence agency. One from June called Bin-Ladin and Associates Making Near-Term Threats writes that [redacted] expects Usama Bin Laden to launch multiple attacks over the coming days. The famous August brief called Bin Ladin Determined to Strike the US is included. Al-Qaida members, including some US citizens, have resided in or travelled to the US for years, and the group apparently maintains a support structure here, it says. During the entire month of August, President Bush was on vacation at his ranch in Texas which tied with one of Richard Nixons as the longest vacation ever taken by a president. CIA Director George Tenet has said he didnt speak to Bush once that month, describing the president as being on leave. Bush did not hold a Principals meeting on terrorism until September 4, 2001, having downgraded the meetings to a deputies meeting, which then-counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke has repeatedly said slowed down anti-Bin Laden efforts enormously, by months.
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http://www.salon.com/2012/06/19/new_nsa_docs_reveal_911_truths/
PS: Thank you, Jesus Malverde. Palante, Compay. Siempre palante.
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Poppy and his secret government pals often declare specific people threats. Take Australia.
Octafish
Oct 2014
#2
You are most welcome, santamargarita. I forgot to post the Poppy Bush FBI memos...
Octafish
Oct 2014
#29
9/11 Commission co-chairmen: The CIA and White House "obstructed our investigation."
johnnyreb
Oct 2014
#11
The Warren Commission answered all pressing questions and brought us desperately needed closure
RufusTFirefly
Oct 2014
#13