Bushcraftgregg wrote:
On Sep 11, 6:22 pm, dave wrote:
Bushcraftgregg wrote:
****MANY**** people did nothing Dave, there is
plenty of blame to go around. The part that just leaves me shaking my
head is that IMO, this country
is no more better prepared than it was on 9-11.
It was not Mr. Bush's prerogative to do nothing. Read the time line.

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Dave, I have read everything that can/could possibly
be read about the subject, not to be a prick or anything but I can
promise you I have read more
about that day than you. Just saying.


I acknowledge that I am no scholar nor expert on the matter, but these
people ignored the experts and did nothing.

"Between August 6 and September 11, 2001: No High-Level Meetings to
Discuss ‘Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US’ Memo
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The Bush administration holds no high-level meetings prior to 9/11 to
discuss the ‘Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US’ Presidential Daily
Briefing (PDB) given to President Bush on August 6, 2001 (see August 6,
2001). Counterterrorism “tsar” Richard Clarke will later suggest that
9/11 might have been stopped “if [National Security Adviser] Rice and
the president had acted personally, gotten involved, shaken the trees,
gotten the Cabinet members involved when they had ample warning in June
and July and August that something was about to happen.… [Rice] said
that the president received 40 warnings face to face from the director
of central intelligence that a major al-Qaeda attack was going to take
place and she admitted that the president did not have a meeting on the
subject, did not convene the Cabinet. She admitted that she didn’t
convene the Cabinet. And as some of the [9/11 Commissioners] pointed
out, this was in marked contrast to the way the government operated in
December of 1999, when it had similar information and it successfully
thwarted attacks.” [ABC News, 4/8/2004] Former CIA official Larry
Johnson will similarly comment, “At a minimum, the details in the 6
August PDB should have motivated Rice to convene a principals’ meeting.
Such a meeting would have ensured that all members of the president’s
national security team were aware of the information that had been
shared with the president. George Bush should have directed the
different department heads to report back within one week on any
information relevant to the al-Qaeda threat. Had he done this there is a
high probability that the FBI field agents concerns about Arabs taking
flight training would have rung some bells. There is also a high
probability that the operations folks at CIA would have shared the
information they had in hand about the presence of al-Qaeda operators in
the United States.” [Tom Paine (.com), 4/12/2004] There will be one
cabinet-level principals meeting to discuss terrorism on September 4,
2001, but no evidence has been released suggesting the PDB or the
possibility of al-Qaeda attacking the US was discussed (see September 4,
2001).

Entity Tags: Condoleezza Rice, Richard A. Clarke, George W. Bush, Larry
C. Johnson

Timeline Tags: 9/11 Timeline

Category Tags: Counterterrorism Policy/Politics, Bush's Aug. 6, 2001
PDB, Presidential Level Warnings, Warning Signs
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