Boxer vindicated: Memo urged Rice to meet on Al-Qaeda before Sept. 11 ...

[understandinglife]

...attack.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/usattacksriceqaeda

The incompetent, lying Ms Rice and her incompetent lying boss, are further exposed.

"Eight months before the September 11, 2001, attacks, the White House's then counterterrorism adviser urged then national security adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) to hold a high-level meeting on the Al-Qaeda network, according to a memo made public.

"We urgently need such a principals-level review on the Al-Qaeda network," then White House counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke wrote in the January 25, 2001 memo."

"However, Rice wrote in a March 22, 2004 column in The Washington Post, "No Al-Qaeda threat was turned over to the new administration.""

All of us here at 2004ER&D who supported Senator Boxer should definitely take the opportunity to write or call her again and reaffirm our deepest appreciation for her courage and true patriotism.

Peace.


FOREVER BE THE BU$H OPPOSITION;24/7

[AuntiBush]

1. Senator Boxer will always be my Hero!

She not only stood-up when no one else would, but single-handedly got the rest of the Dem's motivated to take action! Placing herself on the very line, how can we ever thank her.

I called her at her West Coast office; couldn't get through to her DC office (line was super-busy) and I'm on the East Coast! I let them know how proud I was of her, and we support her all the way.

Thank you Senator Boxer, and everyone standing up for Democracy.

I see a trend emerging. A power like no other.

:kick:

[MasonJar]

2. Boxer, Lautenberg, Conyers, now Hilary are standing up to the

liars. It is the only way we will ever get back our democracy. Condi Rice has a sister (Have you ever seen her on NOW?) who is a polar opposite. She is trying to help those in need. Condi, maybe Barbara wouldn't do it, but I certainly will "impugn your integrity" because it is a lost cause.

[louis-t]

15. Condi has a sister?

I got this visual of "Twins" with Arnold the G. and Danny DeVito. Guess which one Condi represents?

[Kurovski]

34. Constance Rice is Condi's cousin.

She has appeared on "NOW".

I thought Condi was an only child?

[FreepFryer]

3. Absolutely! Here's Boxer's Contact info. A polite message like...

"Thanks for daring to make a difference."

And then - pick an issue, and try to be daring, just like her.

http://boxer.senate.gov/contact/

Washington D.C.
112 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
[phone]

Sacramento
501 I Street, Suite 7-600
Sacramento, CA 95814
[phone]
[phone] fax

San Francisco
1700 Montgomery Street, Suite 240
San Francisco, CA 94111
[phone]
[phone] fax

Los Angeles
312 N. Spring Street, Suite 1748
Los Angeles, CA 90012
[phone]
[phone] fax

Fresno
1130 O Street, Suite 2450
Fresno, CA 93721
[phone]
[phone] fax

San Diego
600 B Street, Suite 2240
San Diego, CA 92101
[phone]
[phone] fax

Inland Empire
201 North E Street, Suite 210
San Bernardino, CA 92401
[phone]
[phone] fax

[Jo March]

11. Sent her a nice thank you note.

We need to continue to reward those who are facing the * cabal. They are getting negative backlash from the MSM and the neocons.

We have to show our support!

[AtLiberty]

4. RATE IT UP!

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. We need a commercial running with Rice saying what she said then,

and what we know now, after the election. Americans have been defrauded.

[dmac]

22. Again.

[Independent_Liberal]

6. Outstanding!

A great job by Barbara Boxer!

Bush and his neocons are going down now. It's out in the news. Everybody knows. They had warnings and didn't act.

[Imagevision]

7. I don't think it's a bad idea that Hillary is joining Boxer's club

[GetTheRightVote]

17. The Democrats have been working towards these days for a very long time

Now they will have the people behind them when they demand justice against this evil adminstration. They have the power of the people behind them and they know it.

:kick:

[Peace Patriot]

8. This makes me so mad I could spit! 52! 52! 52!

FIFTY-TWO INTELLIGENCE REPORTS TO THE FAA ON OSAMA BIN LADEN!!!! --and they couldn't possibly think to have a bit of air defense in place for our major cities and OUR NATION'S CAPITOL!!!! Just a little jet maybe, just to go check any stray commercial airplanes that shut down their responders and veer off course for hundreds of miles, then make U-turns back toward DC, just to see if maybe something is wrong... just one little jet, or maybe an ak-ak gun on the roof of the Pentagon... something...

The malfeasance is UNBELIEVABLE! And to suspect something worse than malfeasance is becoming more justified every day!


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"So many reports on Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) or his al-Qaeda terrorist network were received by the FAA in the months before 9/11, that it conducted classified briefings for security officials in 19 of the busiest airports in the United States.

"The report said the 52 intelligence reports sent to the FAA in the months leading up to the September 11 attacks, comprised half of all the intelligence summaries it received."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/usattacksriceqaeda

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Did I miss something new here re: Boxer and Rice? Or is this just referring back to the nomination revolt, re: this DELAYED information about the FAA and what IT knew? The nomination revolt was no small thing, it's true--but it sounds like there was some recent exchange between them... or one of them said something???

[understandinglife]

13. The point regarding Senator Boxer is that she took the heat...

...in challenging Condasleezzalier.

Imagine if the FAA and the Clarke memo information had been public before the confirmation hearings.

Imagine if it had been public before 2 Nov 2004.

Imagine why the CIA IG report still hasn't been released.

So, I was just highlighting how truly patriotic Senator Boxer is that she did what she did, when she did it.

Peace.


TBO;24/7

[Raksha]

35. Oh, great...another BFEE "coincidence."

Re >>Imagine if the FAA and the Clarke memo information had been public before the confirmation hearings.<<

So now we know why this information wasn't made public before the confirmation hearings. I am SOOOO sick of these people!

[Carolab]

9. Rated. F'ing LIAR. n/t

[understandinglife]

10. Well, Congresspersons Waxman & Maloney are obviously NOT pleased.

"Meanwhile, US Representatives Henry Waxman and Carolyn Maloney requested House hearings on "whether the administration misused the classification process to withhold, for political reasons, official 9/11 Commission staff findings detailing how federal aviation officials received multiple intelligence reports warning of airline hijackings and suicide attacks before September 11," and "on the veracity of statements, briefings and testimony by then national security advisor Condoleezza Rice," they said in a statement."


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/usattacksriceqaeda


TBO;24/7

[Jo March]

12. They don't need hearings - they can just ask DUers

We've known this crap for how long?

Dammit, this makes me so angry. I was yelling at the news tonight. I had to turn it. I was scared that I'd bust a blood vessel or something.

[understandinglife]

14. I share your rage. I'm a nonviolent person but this shit is really, ...

....really, really testing my resolve to remain so.


Peace.


ANYONE QUESTIONS REMAINING WHY BU$H MUST BE INDICTED?

[Jo March]

32. I'm a pacifist and the urge to hit someone is just overwhelming

I have a lot of inner conflict right now. x(

[bleever]

23. Another criminal act in itself. A Watergate unto itself.

A hard rain is gonna fall.

[hootinholler]

36. I was waiting for that, thanks. N/T

[GetTheRightVote]

16. It is about time that someone start reporting on this event & truth

about it, nice to see it coming into the light.

:kick:

[vanboggie]

18. Rate it up for the uniforrmed!

Avg Rating: 4.37, 137 votes at 9:04pm

I also email the story to a few other email addresses to hopefully up the visibility of the story.

[berniew1]

19. Report: FAA Had 52 Pre-9/11 Warnings

Report: FAA Had 52 Pre-9/11 Warnings


WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Aviation Administration received repeated warnings in the months prior to Sept. 11, 2001, about al-Qaida and its desire to attack airlines, according to a previously undisclosed report by the commission that investigated the terror attacks.

The report by the 9/11 commission that investigated the suicide airliner attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon detailed 52 such warnings given to FAA leaders from April to Sept. 10, 2001, about the radical Islamic terrorist group and its leader, Osama bin Laden.
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20050210%2F1048595049.htm&sc=1110&photoid=20010911NYET274&floc=NW_1-T

[brindis_desala]

21. There's a point here being missed. Why is it not more damning that

Democrats agreed to keep this from the public? There are no good guys in this treasonous story.

[Bill Bored]

20. UL, Your link is to a different but related story on Yahoo about the FAA.

Was there a change, or is your quote about Clarke from another source?

Clarke's warnings about AQ are old news to anyone who's been paying attention. I'm glad Boxer tried to pin Condi down, although Richard Ben-Veniste did a pretty good job at the 9/11 hearings too, despite her filibustering. The problem was that the Aug 6, 2001 PDB was declassified and released the day before Easter Sunday so that no one would actually read it. So, here's a nice link to the PDF version if anyone wants it:

<http://www.cnn.com/2004/images/04/10/whitehouse.pdf>

This should have been required reading for every American BEFORE the (stolen) election.

Also, for the life of me, I don't know why the Dems didn't go after the Bushies on this more during the campaign!

[understandinglife]

25. Yahoo switched the article after I posted the original URL. Here is...

....the link to the News.com.au report on the same matter:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12216295-23109,00.html

And a related Reuters report that does not contain the same quotes as the News.com.au (and original Yahoo posting of the AP report, did):

http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=7600332

You betcha Rove and company are doing everything they can to suppress this one.

Oh, and for sure, I'm saving these reports to hard drive!!

Rice has got some major downside on all this, including statements made under oath during her hearings that can now be even more thoroughly scrutinized for just how many lies she told, in how many different settings, since 11 Sept 2001.

Demand the CIA IG report be released, everyone.

Peace.

TBO;24/7

[Karenca]

24. EVEN SCABBOROUGH IS ON THE AIR RITE NOW COMPLAINING

about bushit's lirs.

[understandinglife]

26. Link to the Clarke memo is here; Read it and truly weep, as I am...

.....for all those wonderful persons who died such horrible deaths, for all those soliders and Iraqi's who have died with 9/11 as one of the phoney justifications for that illegal war, for........

http://www2.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB147/index.htm

And, read this:

"Two days after Rice's March 22 op-ed, Clarke told the 9/11 Commission, "there's a lot of debate about whether it's a plan or a strategy or a series of options -- but all of the things we recommended back in January were those things on the table in September. They were done. They were done after September 11th. They were all done. I didn't really understand why they couldn't have been done in February (2001).""


Prosecute the lying Ms Rice, NOW; prosecute that piece of human garbage, Bu$h, NOW; prosecute Cheney, NOW; prosecute, prosecute, prosecute......!!


TBO;24;7

[fearnobush]

27. This woman is responsible for 3000 lives plus many more.

Damn her. May she suffer.

[flyarm]

28. ohhh f#@$ no she got promoted!!

and is now all over the fing world ready to start ww3..i fing hate that bitch who killed my coworkers..i hate her like i have never hated before..and the whole damn * administration...

i have been screaming about this since sept 11 2001!

and top it all off ..with this bit of info..american airlines had flight crew have uniforms , passports and crew i.d. stolen late july early aug 2001 before aug 6th pdb..and still no warning was givent to any flight crew in this country but an internal note to crews to be careful with uniform items on layovers and when taking uniforms to cleaners!

all while these murderers in our white house sat on 52 warnings of hijackings !

feel safe now??

a very angry

fly...retired american airlines flight attendant ..2001 flt attend of the year ny base

[Eloriel]

29. Uh, didn't we know this from Clarke's book --

and possibly his testimony to 9-11 Commission?

Or, what's new about this?

[blm]

30. Clarke's book wasn't on the media's Rove-approved reading list.

.

[pauldp]

31. I guess the point is the memo's been declassified. n/t

[understandinglife]

33. NYTimes: "'01 Memo to Rice Warned of Qaeda and Offered Plan"

Front page, online.

Not an AP wire report but some actual reporting by an NY Times staff journalist.

Two quotes:

"Mr. Levitt, now director of terrorism studies at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said that whether the document constitutes a "plan," as Mr. Clarke averred and Dr. Rice denied, is "a semantic debate." But he said the experience of reading the original documents for the first time Friday left him with a strong impression of the danger Al Qaeda posed.

"I think it makes the threat look pretty urgent," Mr. Levitt said. "I look at this and I see something that to my mind requires immediate attention.""

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/12/politics/12clarke.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5094&en=20dfc8ea10b55dd0&hp&ex=1108270800&partner=homepage

Dept of State flack and a worm from the Brookings squirmed in their statements.

Peace.


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