Bush was barley transitioned into office when 9/11 happened. Business insider take with a grain of salt. Billy had as much a hand it as Bush. you believe what you want. But billy didn't keep us anymore safe then Bush.
OVER 8 MONTHS IS BARELY? Dozens of HIGH level warnings went unheeded, not even ONE high level meeting at the white house? lol
More Evidence Indicates the Bush Administration Ignored September 11 Warnings
As the
9/11 Commission noted, "There were more than 40 intelligence articles in the PDBS [Presidential Daily Briefings] from January 21 to September 11 that related to Bin Laden." In a
section of the report called "The Drumbeat Begins," the Commission highlights a late June briefing that alerts to the
"high probability of near-term 'spectacular' terrorist attacks resulting in numerous casualties … including a 'severe blow' against U.S. and Israeli 'interests' during the next two weeks." But whereas the Commission report describes the threat of attacks worldwide
, Eichenwald's exclusive intel specifically cites a domestic threat, one with "dramatic consequences."
However, as Eichenwald writes, the administration was much more concerned with Iraq:
An intelligence official and a member of the Bush administration both told me in interviews that the neoconservative leaders who had recently assumed power at the Pentagon were warning the White House that the C.I.A. had been fooled; according to this theory, Bin Laden was merely pretending to be planning an attack to distract the administration from Saddam Hussein, whom the neoconservatives saw as a greater threat. Intelligence officials, these sources said, protested that the idea of Bin Laden, an Islamic fundamentalist, conspiring with Mr. Hussein, an Iraqi secularist, was ridiculous, but the neoconservatives’ suspicions were nevertheless carrying the day.
On June 29, the CIA insisted, "The U.S. is not the target of a disinformation campaign by Usama Bin Laden." Almost a month later, "the president did not feel the briefings on potential attacks were sufficient, one intelligence official told me, and instead asked for a broader analysis on Al Qaeda, its aspirations and its history.
In response, the C.I.A. set to work on the Aug. 6 brief."
More Evidence Indicates the Bush Administration Ignored September 11 Warnings