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The Spymasters - CIA in the Crosshairs
Saw that, missed this
They blame Bush for 9/11 & he lied US into Iraq.
Early 2001 Tenet and Black pitched the “the Blue Sky paper” to Bush’s 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.” Cofer Black "The United States was going to be struck. Struck hard and Americans were going to die. This country's got to go on a war footing now,"
“And the word back,” says Tenet, “was ‘we’re not quite ready to consider this. We don’t want the clock to start ticking.’” Black 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.”
“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,” Black
said in May of 2001. Tenet was more specific about the nature of some of the warnings. “There were real plots being manifested,” he said. “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.”
July 10, Richard Blee, burst into Black’s office. “And he says, ‘Chief, this is it. Roof's fallen in,’” recounts Black. “The information that we had compiled was absolutely compelling. It was multiple-sourced. And it was sort of the last straw.” Black and his deputy rushed to the director’s office to brief Tenet. All agreed an urgent meeting at the White House was needed. Tenet picked up the white phone to Bush’s National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. “I said, ‘Condi, I have to come see you,’” Tenet remembers. “It was one of the rare times in my seven years as director where I said, ‘I have to come see you. We're coming' right now. We have to get there.’”
Tenet vividly recalls the White House meeting with Rice and her team. (George W. Bush was on a trip to Boston.) “Rich Blee started by saying, ‘There will be significant terrorist attacks against the United States in the coming weeks or months. The attacks will be spectacular. They may be multiple. Al Qaeda's intention is the destruction of the United States.’" [Condi said:] ‘What do you think we need to do?’ Black responded by slamming his fist on the table, and saying, ‘We need to go on a wartime footing now!’”
“What happened?” I ask Cofer Black. he replies.
“To me it remains incomprehensible still. I mean, how is it that you could warn senior people so many times and nothing actually happened? It’s kind of like The Twilight Zone.” Remarkably, in her memoir, Condi Rice writes of the July 10 warnings: “My recollection of the meeting is not very crisp because we were discussing the threat every day.” “I thought we were doing what needed to be done.”
And there was more chilling warnings to come.Tenet said as he can barely contain himself when talking about the unheeded warnings he gave the White House. “I can only tell you what we did and what we said.” At the end of July, Tenet and his deputies gathered in the director’s conference room at CIA headquarters. “And I'll never forget this until the day I die. Rich Blee looked at everybody and said, ‘They're coming here.’ And the silence that followed was deafening. You could feel the oxygen come out of the room. ‘They're coming here.’”
It is legend, the seminal moment when George Tenet said, Mr. President, it's a slam dunk Iraq has WMD's, and off we went to war.
Tenet says that's not true. This was long after the decision to go to war with Iraq had been made. That horse had left the barn. And they were talking about the public case that could be made to support the presence of weapons of mass distraction, which, of course, turned out to be completely wrong.
