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

[Wry Catcher]

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

Deaths on 11 Sept. 2001, 3000; deaths by a war of choice in Iraq (Americans service personal only) 4,500+

But let us never forget BENGHAZI.

 

[Wry Catcher]

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...

This is what Republicans say anytime Republicans **** up. It's never just the republicans fault. They always got to say the Democrats were responsible too. The Iraq war, the Great Recession and now 9/11.

Bill Clinton handed the job over to Bush. There was nothing more Bill Clinton could do for GW Bush in September of 2011. It was Bush's job to keep us safe and he didn't.

And for those of you who like Trump, he admits it.

Donald Trump says CIA warned George W. Bush of Sept. 11 attacks

Trump said on Oct. 20, 2015, that Bush knew the 2001 attacks were coming.
Aug. 6 briefing document written by two CIA analysts. They titled it "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US."
It spoke of an unconfirmed warning from 1998 that planes might be hijacked to win the release of imprisoned extremists and noted suspicious surveillance of federal buildings in New York.
News reports since 2004 have described in detail the frustrations intelligence officials like Tenet had in trying to get the White House to focus on Bin Ladin.

[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]Donald Trump says CIA warned George W. Bush of Sept. 11 attacks

Oh, and the claim was deemed FALSE! So all you Trump supporters are supporting a 9/11 conspiracy theorist.
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]Just as dumb as bengazi fools.[/FONT]

Na, not really.
Slick willy was too busy molesting/raping children too care... Lol

Are you too young or stupid to remember if Bill Clinton tried to wage war on anyone or even suggested it you guys cried Wag the Dog?

Please, hypocrisy and distortion of history is what keeps them posting, one cannot expect honesty from those when the truth will make them absurd.

 

[g5000]

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

Deaths on 11 Sept. 2001, 3000; deaths by a war of choice in Iraq (Americans service personal only) 4,500+

But let us never forget BENGHAZI.

So...none then.

I win!

 

[Manonthestreet]

Being warned isnt same as actionable intel leading to capture or prevention of the event

 

[sealybobo]

Being warned isnt same as actionable intel leading to capture or prevention of the event

Just remember our actual party didn't Bengazi Bush like you guys have Bengazi'ed Hillary. We could have but we have more class than that.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Because there was a cooperative full investigation instead of stonewalling and lying....see the difference

 

[gipper]

Rs blame D's...D's blame Rs...WTF they both suck just as big gov ALWAYS SUCKS.