candycorn
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Are you saying that the Bush administration was notified of the NORAD drills before 9/11? Where is your proof of this? Where is your proof that Bush and Condi were specifically told of the NORAD drills during this "transition" phase where everyone is brought up to speed? THE NORAD COMMANDER HIMSELF SAID THAT THE EVENTS OF 9/11 WERE NOT ANTICIPATD OR EXERCISED BY NORAD....IT SAYS THIS IN THE ARTICLE ITSELF.
This is once again your inate ability to make more of something than what it is. The NORAD drills are explained in the article itself and nowhere does it talk of commerical airliners hitting the WTC...IN FACT, it says that they discredited the thought of one hitting the Pentagon because it was thought thought to be impossible.
Now you are again resorting to having to nit pic about Norad drills specifically! We are talking about whether the Bush administration saying they had no idea of impending attacks have any merit!
HereÂ’s what we know. During the summer immediately prior to 9/11, Italian, Israeli, Jordanian, Egyptian, Tunisian, Moroccan, Russian, Malaysian, Filipino and British intelligence agencies warned the Bush administration that al Qaida was planning a large terrorist hit in the U.S. Many of these agencies accurately speculated upon both the targets and the means by which they would be attacked. The Filipino report, according to The New York Times, detailed the cross-country odyssey of one would-be terrorist as he attended flight schools in New York, Texas, California and North Carolina in order to learn the skills needed to precisely fly a jumbo jet directly into a target.
In the months leading up to 9/11, other FBI offices around the country followed suit, warning about the potential use of airplanes as terrorist weapons, with the most recent warning coming out of the Phoenix office in July of 2002, less than two months before 9/11. Officials in Minneapolis were more specific, and had already identified Zacarias Moussaoui as one of the would-be hijackers.
The Bush folks countered that such an attack was unforeseeable. Unthinkable. But in 1995, Ramsi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, revealed plans to fly a hijacked jetliner into the CIAÂ’s headquarters in Virginia. Filipino police, according to The Associated Press, recently warned that another such plan was in the works. None of this was new. In 1994, Algerian hijackers attempted to use an Air France jetliner to destroy the Eiffel Tower, only to be thwarted during a stop on the ground in Marseille. The unthinkable was clearly thinkable, planned, and already attempted.
A 1999 study commissioned by the U.S, government also foresaw the unforeseeable, reporting that al Qaida wanted to crash aircraft into several targets in Washington, D.C. Richard Clarke, BushÂ’s top Counter-Terrorism official, said that U.S. intelligence agencies were convinced, ten weeks prior to 9/11, that a major al Qaida attack was imminent. Documents indicate that the administration expected the attack to be aimed at symbolic structures such as the White House and the World Trade Center.
The Washington Post reports that on July 5th, 2001, the White House briefed officials from a dozen federal agencies that, “Something really spectacular is going to happen here, and it’s going to happen soon.” Richard Clarke ordered all counter-terrorism officials to cancel vacations and get ready for immediate action. The unfortunate reality is that the “immediate action” wouldn’t take place until after the terrorists struck.
So this, in a nutshell, is what the Bush administration knew.
Did Bush Know
“We know now that the Bush administration received numerous warnings of impending terrorist attacks, some arriving almost on the eve of the Sept. 11 disaster, and did next to nothing. Well, it did slip word to John Ashcroft, our faith-based attorney general, and Ashcroft stopped flying on commercial aircraft. Faith has its limitations.”--Editorial, Arkansas Times, May 24, 2002:
Heads-Up To Ashcroft Proves Threat Was Known Before 9/11
Heads-Up To Ashcroft Proves Threat Was Known Before 9/11
No one wants to believe that the attacks of Sept. 11 could have been prevented, but we do a disservice to our country if we stay in denial. No one wants to believe that President Bush had more forewarning than he acknowledges, but there is strong circumstantial evidence that he didÂ…
“As warnings of a major terrorist operation against the United States poured in last summer, we know that George Tenet kept warning everyone who would listen. It seems to me certain that he would have kept the vacationing president up to date, including the fresh information on Moussaoui.
“And that's probably why Tenet didn't get fired after Sept. 11.”
---Ray McGovern, Miami Herald, June 3, 2002:
Read more: Heads-Up To Ashcroft Proves Threat Was Known Before 9/11
And yet again their statements made on national TV of "having no idea" are flushed down the Al Qaeda, along with your willfully ignorant and delusional attempt to justify their lies.
You would think that as an American you would be concerned and appalled at witnessing your elected leaders squirm and try to lie their way out of the responsibility to uphold the pledge they took upon assuming their positions in the government. They are caught in bald faced lies and you still try with all your might to deny it!?![]()
I sure hope you don't discredit THIS CBS article, considering you've used them as well.
What Bush Knew Before Sept. 11 - CBS News
"CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin says the warning was in a document called the President's Daily Brief, which is considered to be the single most important document that the U.S. intelligence community turns out. The document did not, however, mention the possibility of planes being flown into buildings."
I'll let you read the rest and hope that you're smart enough to figure it out for yourself. This article shows what Bush knew and what actions were taken before hand. And have you noticed that all of these "reports" written about using planes as weapons happened BEFORE BUSH WAS IN OFFICE! ?
The document did not, however, mention the possibility of planes being flown into buildings."

The document did not, however, mention the possibility of planes being flown into buildings."

The document did not, however, mention the possibility of planes being flown into buildings."

The document did not, however, mention the possibility of planes being flown into buildings."

The document did not, however, mention the possibility of planes being flown into buildings."

The document did not, however, mention the possibility of planes being flown into buildings."

The document did not, however, mention the possibility of planes being flown into buildings."

The document did not, however, mention the possibility of planes being flown into buildings."

The document did not, however, mention the possibility of planes being flown into buildings."

The document did not, however, mention the possibility of planes being flown into buildings."

Maybe posting it 10 times will force that grotesque bitch to actually read what her site says.