Editorial: Cover-up and conspiracy: The Bush administration and September 11 The Bush administration has been plunged into a major political crisis following press reports that Bush was briefed on the danger of a terrorist attack involving the hijacking of US airliners more than a month before September 11. Despite the warning, delivered in an intelligence briefing last August, the White House took no action to forestall the deadliest terrorist action in US history, or to warn the public. The revelations of the past 48 hours show, at the very least, that the Bush administration has been concealing information for the past eight months about the circumstances leading up to the terrorist attacks which killed 3,000 people in New York City and Washington. In the days after September 11, Bush administration officials repeatedly characterized the suicide hijackings as a sneak attack for which there had been "no warning." These statements are now exposed as lies-a fact that inevitably raises the question of why the White House sought to conceal the nature of the warnings it had received. The cover-up began to come apart last week, with the report on CBS News Wednesday night that Bush had received a CIA briefing on August 6, five weeks before the attack on the World Trade Center, which suggested that an airplane hijacking by terrorists linked to Osama bin Laden was an imminent possibility. This prompted an explosion of reporting and commentary in the media Thursday and Friday, and demands for a full-scale congressional inquiry from House and Senate Democratic leaders, as well as sections of the Republican Party. MORE: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/may2002/bush-m18_prn.shtml Serbian News Network - SNN [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.antic.org/
