Latest revelation, about the WTC/Pentagon mass murders?

2015-11-14T12:53:31-05:00

OK, so the article was published in Politico - but is it accurate?

BTW, it was the National Inquirer that "scooped" Watergate so accuracy can't always be measured by source.

“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.”

That morning of July 10, the head of the agency’s Al Qaeda unit, Richard Blee, burst into Black’s office. “And he says, ‘Chief, this is ...
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/11/cia-directors-documentary-911-bush-213353

How the Bush administration ignored a significant warning from the CIA months before 9/11

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.

Response by LTC Kevin B. made Nov 14 at 2015 1:02 PM

2015-11-14T13:02:40-05:00

I think "ignored" is a strong mischaracterization. Maybe they underestimated the potential impact, or maybe they weren't confident enough in their intel to be able effectively counteract any threat. The use of the term "ignored" implies they didn't really care.

Response by Capt Seid Waddell made Nov 14 at 2015 1:03 PM

2015-11-14T13:03:04-05:00

Monday morning quarterbacking.

Response by SSgt Alex Robinson made Nov 16 at 2015 8:15 AM

2015-11-16T08:15:29-05:00

If you're going to use that logic we were warned prior to President Bush taking office under the leadership of President Clinton that this was also possible so Clintonwood bear ultimate responsibility if you're going to use that logic.