"...according to a previously undisclosed report from...

[whistle]

... the 9/11 commission"? Helloooooo! Why did the 9-11 commission wait until now to disclose this? It's the headline story in today's NYT. It should have been headlines 12 months ago....

<snip>
The New York Times

February 10, 2005
9/11 Report Cites Many Warnings About Hijackings
By ERIC LICHTBLAU

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 - In the months before the Sept. 11 attacks, federal aviation officials reviewed dozens of intelligence reports that warned about Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, some of which specifically discussed airline hijackings and suicide operations, according to a previously undisclosed report from the 9/11 commission.

But aviation officials were "lulled into a false sense of security," and "intelligence that indicated a real and growing threat leading up to 9/11 did not stimulate significant increases in security procedures," the commission report concluded.

The report discloses that the Federal Aviation Administration, despite being focused on risks of hijackings overseas, warned airports in the spring of 2001 that if "the intent of the hijacker is not to exchange hostages for prisoners, but to commit suicide in a spectacular explosion, a domestic hijacking would probably be preferable." <more>

<link> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/10/politics/10terror.html?th

[Spinzonner]

1. This can't be true

Condi says there were no warnings.

[whistle]

2. You're right, okay everyone, heads back in the sand!

[Spinzonner]

3. I don't think the Mojave will be big enough

we may have to lease the Sahara

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. Condi lied again? I'm shocked, Shocked!

[Spinzonner]

6. Lied Between her teeth

It takes a whole lot of lies to fill that space. What did we expect ?

[ET Awful]

4. Thay waited because of an executive order from the Whitehouse

according to the reports I heard this AM on AAR news.

[CWebster]

7. I was always suspicious of Bush heading off to the Ranch

for the entire month of August--not even a year after grabbing the Whitehouse. I can recall watching an interview with him at the time and discussing with someone that something was up - he was cowering and hiding from something.


After all, it wasn't the first time they targeted the WTC.

Unfortunately, this news will be buried, or contradicted by propaganda- like things hidden on the financial page clashing what is promoted on the editorial page.

[Sydnie]

8. This was the report we were trying to get them to release last August

They had this report then but blivet** refused to allow them to release it then. Guess we know exactly why now. Keeping us safer AFTER THE FACT. LIHOP seems more and more less :tinfoilhat: now doesn't it?

[blondeatlast]

9. The Bushbots want to celebrate this man's "leadership," yet he

"leads" the most incredibly, unbelievably INCOMPETENT administration history has known.

Forget the nasty, clever names. Just repeat the word "incompetent" every chance you get when discussing this adminisrtration or anyone in it.

Nothing will take the polish off of Bush like his being thought of as incompetent. Nothing.

And he's the "incompetent" leader.

[Demit]

10. Too true. Other words that apply:

Coward, immoral, confused, unprincipled, oversensitive, failure, fragile, faint-hearted, nervous, sad, boneheaded, feeble, puny, fearful, dependent, vulnerable, inadequate, trivial, unimportant, petty, juvenile, scared, frightened, worried, edgy, cheerless, distressed, uncontrolled, bitter, gloomy, hysterical, delusional, repressed, browbeaten, demoralized, conquered, loser, disappointment, overwhelmed, pessimistic, hapless, indecisive, bawling, baffled, befuddled, dishonorable, shameful, disgraceful, easily upset, thin-skinned, hypersensitive, ineffective, ridiculous, absurd, mediocre, embarrassment, unimpressive, incompetent, incapable, deficient, lacking, undisciplined, unfortunate, awkward, babbling, inept, clumsy, flailing, humiliated, disgraced.

--From a nice article on framing: http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/001120.php