How many times do we need to go over this? Bush ordered the memo. The memo referred to events in 1997-98 that the Clinton admin didn't think worthy enough to mention to the Bush Admin. Hair on fire?
Before Richard Clark wrote a book stating what you do, he testified the Clinton admin ignored all his hair-on-fire warnings and the Bush admin made defense against terrorism a priority. On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Gruss Gott<[email protected]> wrote: > > It's all in the 9/11 commission report, which you can find online. > > In short, starting in January the terrorism intelligence experts were > attempting get an audience with the president to warn him about Bin > Laden. The President and/or his staff decline those meetings. > > Tenet said they (the terrorism experts) were "running around all > summer with their hair on fire" about Bin Laden. > > This culminated in a dramatic brief; normally they're fairly boring > affairs titled boring, but this one was titled "bin laded determined > to attack in the US" > > It was available in August and scheduled for a special meeting on sept > 4th. However even during that meeting there was no specific > discussion on Bin laden. > > In short, the President listened to his own inner circle and they > didn't think Bin Laden was a big deal so the President ignored the > experts. > > Given all of the almost amateur behavior of the terrorists ("hey i > want to know how to take off but not land a 747") one wonders what > might of happened had the President listened to the experts in > January. > > But Bush, Cheney, Rice, and Tenet failed to listen, failed to protect > the US homeland, and we got hit. > > To make for their failure they said they had to take our liberty. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:299875 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
