Folks,
Let's help the 9/11 Widows get the truth of what FBI Director Tenet
told Condi Rice, as related in Bob Woodward's book:
http://www.petitiononline.com/july10/petition.html
9/11 Widows Want Rice/Tenet Documents Released
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Report
Wednesday 25 October 2006
A handful of 9/11 widows have started an online petition in hopes
of gathering the public's support to force the White House to
declassify documents related to a July 10, 2001, meeting between
Condoleezza Rice and former CIA director George Tenet in which the two
discussed a pending attack on US soil by al-Qaeda. Details of the
meeting were first disclosed a month ago in the book State of Denial
by Washington Post assistant managing editor and author Bob Woodward.
In a letter posted on petitononline.com, Patty Casazza, Monica
Gabrielle, Mindy Kleinberg, and Lorie Van Auken said that details of
the meeting have been confirmed by the State Department and the White
House warrants declassification of documents related to the meeting.
The widows take issue with Woodward's exclusive access to officials'
knowledgeable about the Rice/Tenet meeting and the possibility that he
may have been privy to classified documents and transcripts in order
to craft a narrative for his book.
"If Bob Woodward can have access to this information, why can't
we, as American citizens and victims' family members?" Van Auken wrote
in an email to Truthout, adding that the families of the thousands of
people who perished on 9/11 are entitled to know what Bush
administration officials knew prior to the 9/11 attacks and when they
knew it. "Given that much of the July 10, 2001, meeting has already
been made public ... it is unacceptable to continue to keep these
documents and transcripts hidden from the American public's view."
The widows, in their online petition addressed to the media and
members of Congress, renewed their call for the declassification of
the redacted 28 pages of the Joint Inquiry Into the Terrorist Attacks
of September 11, 2001, and the CIA Inspector General's Report, "CIA
Accountability With Respect to the 9/11 Attacks."
The disastrous nature of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
warrants the release of all of this information so that the American
public may learn what its government did or did not do to protect
them," states the letter to Congress and the media. "Had this nation
been properly warned of the looming and imminent terrorist threat,
life-saving choices could have been made that day."
Remarkably, the 9/11 Commission said it was briefed about the
Rice/ Tenet meeting during the panel's inquiry into the terrorist
attacks a couple of years ago, but for reasons still unknown the
commission did not include this important detail in its final report
to Congress.
Woodward, who has a knack for gaining exclusive access to
high-level political officials and classified documents, wrote in his
book that on July 10, 2001, Tenet briefed Rice about a looming attack
against the US by al-Qaeda - which according to Woodward was the first
known instance that an administration official was provided with
specific details about the terrorist organization's intentions.
Woodward wrote that Rice did not take Tenet's July briefing seriously
when Tenet and Cofer Black, then the CIA's chief of counterterrorism,
met with her at the White House.
In the book, Woodward added that Tenet and Black considered the
briefing the "starkest warning they had given the White House" on the
threat posed by Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. But, Woodward
wrote, Tenet and believed Rice gave them "the brush-off."
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