NEW: Bush Administration Ignored Urgent Warnings From CIA Months Before 9/11

[Luddly Neddite]

Bush should have copied from the FDR playbook and rounded and locked up every Muslim male including Obama

 

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By CHRIS WHIPPLE - November 12, 2015

‘The Attacks Will Be Spectacular’

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.

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.”

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

Well, this certainly won't help Jeb Bush.

As did slick willy the child molester that is Billy Clinton, he was too busy too worry about such things the perverted POS.

They all dropped to ball...

The only time a Republican will take responsibility is when they can say "well, they did it too!"

It doesn't have to be the same either they will just assert that it is

 

[blackhawk]

Kind of interesting we get this thread the same day as the horrific and what is seeming to be an ISIS or ISIS inspired terrorist attacks in France. If one were cynical they might think this thread is an attempt to deflect from the fact the current Presidents degrade and defeat strategery for ISIS is failing on an epic scale.

 

[Rustic]

Kind of interesting we get this thread the same day as the horrific and what is seeming to be an ISIS or ISIS inspired terrorist attacks in France. If one were cynical they might think this thread is an attempt to deflect from the fact the current Presidents degrade and defeat strategery for ISIS is failing on an epic scale.

Barry is their bitch...

 

[OKTexas]

If only we had rounded up all the Muslims when we received this warning.

No, if W had simply put the nations security services on alert, it may have saved lived. HE DID NOTHING!

Putting them on alert, wouldn't that mean profiling Muslims?

Is it funny to you that 3,000 people died because W ignored a warning? HE DID NOTHING!

It's funny that you think the warning was specific enough that the attack could have easily been stopped.

Read the article. Security officials were alarmed as never before. NOTHING....HE DID NOTHING!

That's a lie, they raised threat levels at possible targets, before 9/11 what was OBL's MO in the US? Past actions are the best predictor of future actions. There was nothing specific given so what would you have done differently?

 

[OKTexas]

Putting them on alert, wouldn't that mean profiling Muslims?

Is it funny to you that 3,000 people died because W ignored a warning? HE DID NOTHING!

It's funny that you think the warning was specific enough that the attack could have easily been stopped.

Read the article. Security officials were alarmed as never before. NOTHING....HE DID NOTHING!

What should he have done. Be as specific as you can.

Tape plastic bags over the windows? Isn't that what the shrub's people suggested?

Seriously, why couldn't he have followed up on the warnings? Put the US on alert? Maybe they would have gotten through but in fact, he chose to do nothing. He literally laughed it off.

You're a liar.

 

[JimH52]

No, if W had simply put the nations security services on alert, it may have saved lived. HE DID NOTHING!

Putting them on alert, wouldn't that mean profiling Muslims?

Is it funny to you that 3,000 people died because W ignored a warning? HE DID NOTHING!

It's funny that you think the warning was specific enough that the attack could have easily been stopped.

Read the article. Security officials were alarmed as never before. NOTHING....HE DID NOTHING!

What should he have done. Be as specific as you can.

He could have done one or all of these things:

In sum, domestic agencies never mobilized in response to the threat. They did not have direction, and did not have a plant institute. The borders were not hardened. Transportation systems were not fortified. Electronic surveillance was not targeted against a domestic threat. State and local law enforcement were not marshaled to augment the FBI’s efforts. The public was not warned.

HE DID NOTHING. PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE HE DID NOTHING!

 

[JimH52]

No, if W had simply put the nations security services on alert, it may have saved lived. HE DID NOTHING!

Putting them on alert, wouldn't that mean profiling Muslims?

Is it funny to you that 3,000 people died because W ignored a warning? HE DID NOTHING!

It's funny that you think the warning was specific enough that the attack could have easily been stopped.

Read the article. Security officials were alarmed as never before. NOTHING....HE DID NOTHING!

That's a lie, they raised threat levels at possible targets, before 9/11 what was OBL's MO in the US? Past actions are the best predictor of future actions. There was nothing specific given so what would you have done differently?

They raised the threat levels? Show us a link Then read the article and find out what he didn't order:

In sum, domestic agencies never mobilized in response to the threat. They did not have direction, and did not have a plant institute. The borders were not hardened. Transportation systems were not fortified. Electronic surveillance was not targeted against a domestic threat. State and local law enforcement were not marshaled to augment the FBI’s efforts. The public was not warned.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Putting them on alert, wouldn't that mean profiling Muslims?

Is it funny to you that 3,000 people died because W ignored a warning? HE DID NOTHING!

It's funny that you think the warning was specific enough that the attack could have easily been stopped.

Read the article. Security officials were alarmed as never before. NOTHING....HE DID NOTHING!

What should he have done. Be as specific as you can.

He could have done one or all of these things:

In sum, domestic agencies never mobilized in response to the threat. They did not have direction, and did not have a plant institute. The borders were not hardened. Transportation systems were not fortified. Electronic surveillance was not targeted against a domestic threat. State and local law enforcement were not marshaled to augment the FBI’s efforts. The public was not warned.

HE DID NOTHING. PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE HE DID NOTHING!

The borders were not hardened.

Muslims are coming over from Mexico today, why isn't Obama "hardening the borders"?

Transportation systems were not fortified.

Fortified how? Excluding Muslims from flights? I agree, we should do that now.

 

[Lakhota]

Bush not only destabilized the Middle East - he destabilized the entire world.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

France burns and Lakooka is stuck in 2001

 

[Mac1958]

France burns and Lakooka is stuck in 2001

The PC Police gotta deflect for the PC-Protected religion.

Hey, be thankful he didn't say "but the Crusades, the Crusades".

Yet.
.

 

[Lakhota]

Both Bush presidents gave us ISIS - especially Bush 43. Not only did Bush 43 lie us into Iraq - his daddy, Bush 41, lied us into the First Gulf War by suckering Saddam into invading Kuwait. The Bushes cost America much prestige, blood and treasure.

Bush 41 suckered Saddam into invading Kuwait by giving him the "green light" via April Glaspie.

It is now more than fifteen years since that fateful meeting on July 25, 1990 between then-US Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie and President Saddam Hussein that the Iraqi leader interpreted as a "green light" from Washington for his invasion of Kuwait eight days later.

TRANSCRIPT: Is the US State Department still keeping April Glaspie under wraps?​

Bush 43 conjured up lies to invade Iraq a 2nd time. He was planning to invade Iraq before 9/11.

The Downing Street Memo​

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Both Bush presidents gave us ISIS - especially Bush 43. Not only did Bush 43 lie us into Iraq - his daddy, Bush 41, lied us into the First Gulf War by suckering Saddam into invading Kuwait. The Bushes cost America much prestige, blood and treasure.

Bush 41 suckered Saddam into invading Kuwait by giving him the "green light" via April Glaspie.

It is now more than fifteen years since that fateful meeting on July 25, 1990 between then-US Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie and President Saddam Hussein that the Iraqi leader interpreted as a "green light" from Washington for his invasion of Kuwait eight days later.

TRANSCRIPT: Is the US State Department still keeping April Glaspie under wraps?​

Bush 43 conjured up lies to invade Iraq a 2nd time. He was planning to invade Iraq before 9/11.

The Downing Street Memo​

Ahhhh shaddup already

 

[JimH52]

Bush not only destabilized the Middle East - he destabilized the entire world.

Bush lied about WMD and people have and will continue to die. Generations will pay for the decisions of the recovering alcoholic. He should have taken a drink and gone to sleep....

 

[OKTexas]

Putting them on alert, wouldn't that mean profiling Muslims?

Is it funny to you that 3,000 people died because W ignored a warning? HE DID NOTHING!

It's funny that you think the warning was specific enough that the attack could have easily been stopped.

Read the article. Security officials were alarmed as never before. NOTHING....HE DID NOTHING!

That's a lie, they raised threat levels at possible targets, before 9/11 what was OBL's MO in the US? Past actions are the best predictor of future actions. There was nothing specific given so what would you have done differently?

They raised the threat levels? Show us a link Then read the article and find out what he didn't order:

In sum, domestic agencies never mobilized in response to the threat. They did not have direction, and did not have a plant institute. The borders were not hardened. Transportation systems were not fortified. Electronic surveillance was not targeted against a domestic threat. State and local law enforcement were not marshaled to augment the FBI’s efforts. The public was not warned.

Borders hardened, what good would that have done, all 20 hijackers came in on Visas granted by the Clinton administration. Exactly what was he to warn the public about, he had no actionable intel. Given the lack of actionable intel what should he have told the police, look out for terrorist? And exactly what the hell is a "plant institute"?

 

[Lakhota]

Fact: 9/11 happened on President George W. Bush's watch!

The Bush White House Was Deaf to 9/11 Warnings - The New York Times

August '01 Brief is Said to Warn of Attack Plans - The New York Times

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Fact: 9/11 happened on President George W. Bush's watch!

The Bush White House Was Deaf to 9/11 Warnings - The New York Times

August '01 Brief is Said to Warn of Attack Plans - The New York Times

Copy and paste, DERP, copy and paste, DERP

 

[Eaglewings]

Yes, but how many Ambassadors were killed on 9/11? Huh? Huh? Huh?

Even the life of a toddler in the preschool that went down was just as important as an ambassadors life. What does it matter if an Ambassador was killed or not..

 

[Freewill]

The Iraq war ended years ago, ISIS rose to power because of Obama in Libya and Syria. There is no doubt.

As for Iraq, yeah you defeatists love to talk about Iraq a war against a tyrant just as debased as the Serbian leader. But you don't talk much about the ethnic Serbs that Clinton killed or the Chinese nationals. The Iraq war was won with few casualties then the left ever predicted and all objective met. Hell Saddam was even brought to justice by his own people. Instead of like Obama melding out his justice with a cruise missile.

As for Benghazi, the tragedy there is that it didn't have to happen. Why it is still news is because, without doubt, people died and Obama, Mrs. Clinton and rice, LIED. Why do people lie? Because they have something to hide. Too bad Congress is in bed with them or else we might find out what.