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Evidence piles up that Bush administration got many pre-9/11 warnings - Open Channel
By Robert Windrem
NBC News
On the 11th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, there is mounting evidence that the Bush administration received more intelligence warnings than previously known prior to the Sept. 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000.
Kurt Eichenwald, a former New York Times reporter, wrote in an op-ed piece in Tuesdays newspaper about a number of previously unknown warnings relayed to the White House by U.S. intelligence in the weeks and months prior to the attacks. Eichenwald wrote of the warnings in his new book, 500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars.
And former US intelligence officials say there were even more warnings, pointing to a little noticed section of George Tenets memoir, At the Center of the Storm.
In it, Tenet describes a July 10, 2001, meeting at the White House in the office of Condoleezza Rice, then President George W. Bushs national security adviser. The meeting was not discussed in the 9-11 Commissions final report on the attacks, although Tenet wrote that he provided information on it to the commission.
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By Robert Windrem
NBC News
On the 11th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, there is mounting evidence that the Bush administration received more intelligence warnings than previously known prior to the Sept. 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000.
Kurt Eichenwald, a former New York Times reporter, wrote in an op-ed piece in Tuesdays newspaper about a number of previously unknown warnings relayed to the White House by U.S. intelligence in the weeks and months prior to the attacks. Eichenwald wrote of the warnings in his new book, 500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars.
And former US intelligence officials say there were even more warnings, pointing to a little noticed section of George Tenets memoir, At the Center of the Storm.
In it, Tenet describes a July 10, 2001, meeting at the White House in the office of Condoleezza Rice, then President George W. Bushs national security adviser. The meeting was not discussed in the 9-11 Commissions final report on the attacks, although Tenet wrote that he provided information on it to the commission.
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