2d NBC report on drones and W---Condi"...would not have prevented 9/11"

[underpants]

This was excuse and not fillingin the time line reporting.

3rd segment tonight.Coming Thursday: Did Bush take terrorism seriously before 9/11, or was focus too much on Saddam?


http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4549030/

Now, we examine what more President Bush might have done, before 9/11, to go after al-Qaida.

By January, there was a new administration. At the urging of the CIA, President Bush decided to arm the Predator with deadly Hellfire missiles (Note: That is more than a different take than was reported by 4 news services, so the next time bin Laden was spotted, the United States could take a shot. But it didn't happen before 9/11. Why?

Daniel Benjamin, a member of President Clinton's counter-terrorism team, charges the Bush administration moved too slowly getting armed Predators ready and did not send unarmed Predators back to look for bin Laden.

"We tied an arm behind our back,” said Benjamin. “We lost the most promising new tool we had."

Part of the problem, everyone agrees, is bureaucratic infighting between the CIA and the Pentagon over who would pay and who would be blamed if something went wrong.

Government documents, obtained by NBC News, show senior intelligence officials thought the armed Predator still was not ready, even in September, saying, "The warhead's effectiveness argues against flying armed missions this fall."

"The predator was not a silver bullet,” said Rice. “Let's be very clear about that. As hard as we tried to get the Predator up, as much as we worked to get it up, that would not have prevented September 11th."

Soon after 9/11, the armed Predator was launched and proved a success — helping kill al-Qaida military chief Mohammed Atef and his associates — and is being used now to hunt bin Laden.

[pansypoo53219]

1. i doubt

the HAPLESS Bushevics will ever EVER admi that they fucked up on 9/11 and STILL AREN'T GETTING IT RIGHT.

[underpants]

2. Well they claimed that this would be a report on W

I really don't know why (especialy after seeing how they reported it in the Today Show) that I expected anything different.

:silly: