Hillary Clinton: If my husband read a PDB "Bin Laden Determined to Attack"

[sabra]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/clintons_of_chappaqua/index.html

HILLARY SLAMS BUSH ON BIN LADEN

<snip>

In remarks at the Senate Radio-TV Press Gallery just now, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, in what seemed very much like prepared remarks, said:

"I'm certain that if my husband and his national security team had been shown a classified report entitled 'Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States,' he would have taken it more seriously than history suggests it was taken by our current president and his National Security team."

[babylonsister]

1. ABC: "in what seemed very much like prepared remarks, " Who

writes this shit, and why was that necessary?:grr: :grr:

[tk2kewl]

7. not necessary...

1. who
2. what
3. where
4. when
5. why

all i want from news

[MADem]

11. ABC writes that shit, because they were the assholes who aired that

PATH TO 911 pile of steaming horseshit.

If you click on the link above, though, you get the facts behind the turdsmear effort.

[glitch]

13. Another bushbot zombie gleefully gets a dig in. Apparently they can't see

themselves the way the rest of us do. Self-protection, probably.

[KharmaTrain]

15. I Would Hope It Was Prepared

It was what I was thinking on the afternoon of 9/11 when booosh was running like chickenshit away from New York and Washington. Surely it musta crossed Mrs. Clinton's mind the say she heard Condi testify to Ben Veniste in the 9/11 hearings...that's when she prepared them.

Looks like this regime wasn't prepared...but now their corporate toadies are ready to revise history.

Amazing how the corporate media is claiming "purple rage" when Clinton speaks up, but when asshat flies off the handle (like he does at almost every press briefing these days...on the verge of becoming unhinged...and the corporate media reports that as being "forcefull"

:puke:

[katinmn]

28. Consider the source

ABC hates America!

[GeorgeGist]

36. Truth be told...

ABC was taken off guard by someone who was prepared to point out the obvious.

[cynatnite]

2. 9/11 would never have had happened...

:cry:

[maddezmom]

3. She's correct

K&R looks like the Big Dog and the Junior Senator from NY are not going to let this go. :D

[Gabi Hayes]

10. they let it go two fricking YEARS ago.....where were the dems THEN?

I never could understand why they refused to make this a major campaign issue in 04?

too chicken that the mean repugs would come after them for encroaching on 'sacred' 911 territory, encroaching on a subject that none dare discuss?

[glitch]

14. So many issues got ignored, like the election thefts. It's a good question

I wish I knew the answer.

[Gabi Hayes]

20. dems seem always to suffer from an outrage deficit. I know the MSM

plays a role in this, but the dems need to have a unified approach on at least ONE or TWO obvious targets for outrage, and this, above all else should have been the one they could have used

as another poster here has said, it's VERY difficult to imagine 911 having happened if Bush had paid any attention at all to that PDB, especially since he's supposed to have brushed it off with words similar to this to the briefing officers: "you've covered your ass. now shove off already."

[hootinholler]

30. An answer:

DLC said no.

-Hoot

[MADem]

4. Good for her...those GOP fuckers know NOTHING about "Bringing it on"

Fear and smear? Fuck them. Go, Hill, go--kick ass, take names, sistah!

[Beaverhausen]

5. Anyone else who was given that memo would have done something

duh!

[BootinUp]

6. Fire at will! Fire at will!

hehehe its going to get nasty.

[maddezmom]

9. I'm loving it

:hi:

[Disturbed]

19. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton voted YES.

Vote to confirm President George W. Bush's nomination of current National Security Advisor Condeleezza Rice to be his new Secretary of State.


Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton voted YES.


http://www.vote-smart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=WNY99268

[MrCoffee]

8. Don't pull your punches!!

"than history suggests"

[IChing]

12. "in what seemed very much like prepared remarks"

Why the hell did ABC included that editorial remark?


Anyway, good for Hillary, I'm glad she got "newstime" or "facetime"
since most democrats are not allowed to voice their opinions in the news.

[catnhatnh]

16. ABC News:In what seemed to be prepared remarks....

...Hey Asshats-GET THIS-In what appeared to be a miracle, Easter candy with a tag that said "From the Easter Bunny" showed up at my Mom's house last spring-appearances aside there WAS candy and the mention of a miracle is mere editorial opinion.....

[PleadTheFirst]

17. Finally, a step in the right direction by the Dems.

It's just a crime that it took the Big Dog to have to come back and show them how to growl.

This statement from Hillary is the LEAST our Democratic Leaders should be making. Call those GOP bastards out for the lying, murderous, corporate whores that they are. Expose their failures, expose their lies and take our fucking country back.

[verse18]

18. I'm glad she made a public statement about that PDB.

I'm sure many people outside DU have no clue what it said or that it even existed.

[jazzjunkysue]

35. This puts the Aug. 6th PDB on network news. Finally. Amen.

This fight will drown out the last GOP hold-outs, and they'll all stay home.

That's what matters now: Who will be angry enough to get out of the lazy-boy recliner and vote and who'll just stay home.

This is finally our fight.

[grasswire]

21. Jake Tapper wrote that.

There's a place to leave a user comment. I did so, but it hasn't shown up yet. Someone else please try it.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2006/09/zing.html#comments

[BootinUp]

22. As others have noted, any civility that came from the 9/11 commission

is now history. Keane has no bipartisan credibility left, and none of the other repukes on the commission had any either. So its open warfare.

[DeeDeeNY]

23. Interesting that ABC thought it necessary to use the term

"in what seemed very much like prepared remarks",
as though we shouldn't think that Hillary -- or anyone
else with a brain -- could just logically come to this
simple conclusion!!
But if they feel a need to mention this, then how come they
didn't think it necessary to mention in 2004 that during the first presidential debate, there was some sort of wire transmitter running down W's back?

[Dervill Crow]

24. About damn time.

As far as preparing her remarks, at least she is capable of preparing her OWN remarks, which is more than chimpy can manage.

What a bunch of asshats at ABC. :puke:

[Nimrod2005]

25. Way to go Hillary....

:loveya:

[Catherine Vincent]

26. Good! Get it out there about the PDB to Bush, Rice et al.

Apparently the main stream media doesn't know about it.

[Rex]

27. HA! Like anyone will EVER take ABC seriously again!

Seemed like prepared remarks to who? I hope ABC becomes the least watched channel on TV.

[femmedem]

29. If my pet rabbit Yogi read a report entitled "Bin Laden Determined..."

he would have taken it more seriously than pResident Bush.

Okay, he's a lousy reader. But if I read it out loud to him...

[kerry-is-my-prez]

31. The Clinton's have now served notice.....

Go Hillary and Bill!

[Jack Rabbit]

32. At least they reported she said something

A couple of years ago, they wouldn't have bothered.

Frankly, I don't give two bits whether she was speaking off the cuff or reading something a speechwriter prepared. The remarks are spot on.

[yodermon]

33. HE **D I D** RECEIVE SUCH A REPORT!!

AND HE ACTUALLY DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT, AS OPPOSED TO THE CHIMP, EXCUSE ME FOR SHOUTING!!
Pay attention to the RED paragraph!

From ThinkProgress: (http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/26/rice-clinton-terrorism/ )

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday accused Bill Clinton of making “flatly false” claims that the Bush administration didn’t lift a finger to stop terrorism before the 9/11 attacks.

…“What we did in the eight months was at least as aggressive as what the Clinton administration did in the preceding years,” Rice added.

The 9/11 Commission Report contradicts Rice’s claims. On December 4, 1998, for example, the Clinton administration received a President’s Daily Brief entitled “Bin Ladin Preparing to Hijack US Aircraft and Other Attacks.” Here’s how the Clinton administration reacted, according to the 9/11 Commission report:

The same day, {Counterterrorism Czar Richard} Clarke convened a meeting of his CSG {Counterterrorism Security Group} to discuss both the hijacking concern and the antiaircraft missile threat. To address the hijacking warning, the group agreed that New York airports should go to maximum security starting that weekend. They agreed to boost security at other East coast airports. The CIA agreed to distribute versions of the report to the FBI and FAA to pass to the New York Police Department and the airlines. The FAA issued a security directive on December 8, with specific requirements for more intensive air carrier screening of passengers and more oversight of the screening process, at all three New York area airports. {pg. 128-30}

On August 6, 2001, the Bush administration received a President’s Daily Brief entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike U.S.” Here’s how the Bush administration reacted, according to the 9/11 Commission report:

{President Bush} did not recall discussing the August 6 report with the Attorney General or whether Rice had done so.{p. 260}

We have found no indication of any further discussion before September 11 among the President and his top advisers of the possibility of a threat of an al Qaeda attack in the United States. DCI Tenet visited President Bush in Crawford, Texas, on August 17 and participated in the PDB briefings of the President between August 31 (after the President had returned to Washington) and September 10. But Tenet does not recall any discussions with the President of the domestic threat during this period. :mad: {p. 262}

[MethuenProgressive]

34. thinkprogress!

great ThinkProgress take on this. thanks, yoder