WaPo: Tenet told Rice OBL danger was real in July 2001

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Two Months Before 9/11, an Urgent Warning to Rice
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR2006093000282.html
Sunday, October 1, 2006; Page A17

On July 10, 2001, two months before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, then-CIA Director George J. Tenet met with his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, at CIA headquarters to review the latest on Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorist organization. Black laid out the case, consisting of communications intercepts and other top-secret intelligence showing the increasing likelihood that al-Qaeda would soon attack the United States. It was a mass of fragments and dots that nonetheless made a compelling case, so compelling to Tenet that he decided he and Black should go to the White House immediately.

Tenet called Condoleezza Rice, then national security adviser, from the car and said he needed to see her right away. There was no practical way she could refuse such a request from the CIA director.

[underpants]

1. All of this got buried by the Foley thing

If it hadn't Bush's impeachment would already be started.

Of course 20 years from now Bush will no longer be able to (strangely) take credit for 9/11 but it will be one of the two disasters he is known for.

[speedoo]

2. "two disasters"?

Which two are you referring to?

I count at least four: 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan (which has become a disaster because Bush ended effective military action there prematurely and we all know why) and Katrina.

[solara]

3. Make that five........"Election 2000" n/t

[MissWaverly]

4. Of course she denies it, link provided

Cairo: On her tour of the Middle East US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has denied claims from former CIA chief George Tenet that she was warned of an impending Al Qaeda attack in the United States before the September 11 attacks.

"What I am quite certain of is that I would remember if I was told, as this account apparently says, that there was about to be an attack in the United States, and the idea that I would somehow have ignored that I find incomprehensible," Rice said.

http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Egypt/10071769.html

This is not a spoof from The Daily Show, she really said that.

:-(

[faithnotgreed]

5. if this is "news" in october 2006 then why is it buried on pg 17

we and everyone who was even halfway listening knew this years earlier so if its news again in october why do they even bother if they arent going to put it where people will read it

i know the answer but it is consistently the case so i dont even know why one of us bothers