At First, WH Claimed NO Warnings Whatsoever

[RedSock]

There is all this talk of the threats and increased chatter and warnings in the summer of 2001 -- even by the * administration -- and no one is denying it -- but let's recall that on 9/11, 9/12, etc., when asked if there was ANY warnings of ANY kind of attack:

Ari and everyone else said NO WARNINGS WHATSOEVER.

They have been lying since Day 1.

[indepat]

1. About everything since day-one (Jan 20, 2001)

[RedSock]

2. well yes

i was thinking of 9/11 in particular.

[RedSock]

5. some quotes

Q: Had there been any warnings that the president knew of?
A: No warnings.
Ari Fleischer, 9/11/01
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010911-6.html

September 14, 2001: FBI Director Mueller describes reports that several of the hijackers had received flight training in the US as "news, quite obviously," adding: "If we had understood that to be the case, we would have -- perhaps one could have averted this." It is later discovered that contrary to Mueller's claims, the FBI had interviewed various flight school staffs about Middle Eastern terrorists on numerous occasions, from 1996 until a few weeks before 9/11. Three days later he says, "There were no warning signs that I'm aware of that would indicate this type of operation in the country." (Department of Justice transcript, 9/17/01) Slate magazine later contrasts this with numerous other contradictory statements and articles, and awards Mueller the "Whopper of the Week." (Slate, 5/17/02)
http://complete911timeline.org/timeline/index.html


"Never (in) anybody’s thought processes ... about how to protect America did we ever think that the evil doers would fly not one but four commercial aircraft into precious US targets... never."
George W. Bush, 9/16/2001
http://www.nato.int/usa/president/s20010916a.html

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Some Warnings: Evidence of summer 2001 warnings, of varying specificity as to mode and target, from...

Germany: Middle Eastern terrorists are planning to to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack "American and Israeli symbols, which stand out."

Egypt: threat to assassinate Bush and other Western leaders at July 2001 G-8 summit in Italy, with "an airplane stuffed with explosives"

C.I.A.: "Based on a review of all-source reporting over the last five months, we believe that will launch a significant terrorist attack against US and/or Israeli interests in the coming weeks. The attack will be spectacular and designed to inflict mass casualties against US facilities or interests."

U.K.: al-Qaeda is in "the final stages" of preparing a terrorist attack in the West

Jordan: a major attack, code named The Big Wedding, is planned inside the US and that aircraft will be used

Russia: suicide pilots are training for attacks on US targets

U.K.: warning of al-Qaeda attack using multiple airplane hijackings

C.I.A.: "There was something specific in early August that said to us that was determined in striking on US soil."

Egypt: bin Laden's network is in the advanced stages of executing a significant operation against an American target, probably within the US.

links to each warnings at:
http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/000420.html

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6. Enlightening post, Redsock! n/t

[Media_Lies_Daily]

4. Back it up to the campaign of 2000...

...so many lies, so little time to right the ship.

[AgadorSparticus]

3. yes! now the trick is to hear it on one of the nazi media channels.

this administration sickens me. i am furious that in light of all this, the media is still giving them a walk. it should be front page news and all over the tv. instead, we hear about micheal jackson and kobe bryant. errrrr...

[RedSock]

7. more damning evidence

What US Officials Claimed To Have Known Pre-9/11
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/wot/sept11/whattheysaidtheyknew.html
With links to all articles


George Bush.
On September 16, 2001, Bush claimed, "Never did anybody's thought process about how to protect America did we ever think that the evildoers would fly not one but four commercial aircraft into precious U.S. targets. Never." (New York Times, 5/18/02)

Dick Cheney.
In an hour-long interview on Meet the Press on September 16, 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney admitted that the government had information that a "big operation" was planned by the terrorists. But, he said, there was "no specific threat involving really a domestic operation." (New York Times, 10/3/01; New York Times, 5/18/02) Consequently, according to Colin Powell, the State Department and the intelligence agencies were on "high alert against terrorism." (New York Times, 10/3/01)

Ari Fleischer.
In response to a reporter's question hours after the attacks, Fleischer alleged "Had there been any warnings that the president knew of? No warnings." (New York Times, 5/18/02)

Robert Mueller III.
On September 17, 2001, Mueller told the press, "There were no warning signs that I'm aware of that would indicate this type of operation in the country." (Newsweek, 5/27/02)

In an April 19, 2002 speech to the Commonwealth Club of California, Mueller stated, "There was never even anything saying, 'Something is planned in the United States.'" (Mueller III, 4/19/02; Los Angeles Times 4/30/02)

Gen. General B. Myers, chairman chief of staff.
Myers told the American Forces Press: "It was initially pretty confusing. You hate to admit it, but we hadn't thought about this." (American Forces Press, 10/24/01)

James Pavitt, Deputy Director of CIA Operations.
On April 12, Pavitt, speaking at the Duke University Law School Conference, stated, "We had very, very good intelligence of the general structure and strategies of the al Qaeda terrorist organization. We knew and we warned that al Qaeda was planning a major strike. There need be no question about that. What didn't we know? We never found the tactical intelligence, never uncovered the specifics that could have stopped those tragic strikes that we all remember so well. ... Against that degree of control, that kind of compartmentation, that depth of discipline and fanaticism, I personally doubt, and I draw again upon my 30 years of experience in this business, that anything short of one of the knowledgeable inner circle personnel or hijackers turning himself in to us would have given us sufficient foreknowledge to have prevented the horrendous slaughter that took place on the 11th." (Pavitt, 4/12/02)

Colin Powell.
On September 12, 2001, he stated, "I have not seen any evidence that there was a specific signal that we missed." (Powell 9/12/01; New York Times, 5/18/02)

Condoleezza Rice.
"All this reporting about hijacking was about traditional hijacking." (Washington Post 9/18/02; Washington Times 5/17/02; Miami Herald 5/17/02)

"I will say that, again, hijacking before 9/11 and hijacking after 9/11 do mean two very, very different things." (Washington Post 9/18/02)

Senator Richard Shelby, ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
"This obviously was a failure of great dimension. We had no specific warning of the US being attacked." (Agence France Presse 9/12/01; Telegraph 9/12/01; Sunday Times 9/16/01)

Marine Corps Major Mike Snyder, spokesperson for NORAD headquarters in Colorado.
The Boston Globe reported, "He said the two F-15s on alert at Otis were not immediately ordered into the sky because a Cold War approach to air defense - protecting US borders from incoming military aircraft - did not anticipate the terrorist threat posed by hijackers commandeering domestic, civilian aircraft." (Boston Globe 9/15/01)

George Tenet, CIA director.
On February 6, 2002, George Tenet testified before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee Hearing on National Security Threats to the United States and said that although during the summer of 2001, the CIA knew "in broad terms" that terrorists might be planning for a major attack in the United States, U.S. intelligence "never had the texture that said the date, time and place of the event inside the United States would result in September 11th." (Tenet 2/6/02; Houston Chronicle 2/7/02)

Colonel Vic Warzinski, a Pentagon spokesperson, Air Force Lieutenant.
Shortly after 9/11, Warzinski said, "The Pentagon was simply not aware that this aircraft was coming our way, and I doubt prior to Tuesday's event, anyone would have expected anything like that here. There was no foreshadowing, no particular warning that would have led anyone with any reasonable view of the world to think this was a threat we faced." (Newsday 9/23/01)

Unnamed officials.
New York Times reaffirmed the Bush administration's assertion that they had received no warnings.

"Bush administration officials have said they had no evidence that any agency had warning of the attacks." (New York Times 5/9/02)