Woodward: Rice Brushed Off Tenet's Warning About bin Laden in July 2001

[BurtWorm]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092900368_pf.html

"State of Denial" adds new information about Rice's role in the Bush administration's efforts to combat terrorism in the months before the Sept. 11 attacks. That subject became a source of controversy this week after former President Bill Clinton accused "President Bush's neocons" and other Republicans of ignoring Osama bin Laden until the attacks, and Rice responded angrily to the charge.

Woodward writes that on July 10, 2001, then-CIA director George Tenet became so concerned about the communication intelligence agencies were receiving indicating that a terrorist attack was imminent that he went to the White House with counterterrorism chief J. Cofer Black -- without an appointment -- to meet with Rice, then the national security adviser. He and Black hoped the meeting would alert Rice to the urgency they felt.

But Tenet and Black felt that Rice gave them "the brush-off," according to Woodward, telling them that a plan for coherent action against bin Laden was already in the works. Woodward writes that both Tenet and Black felt the meeting was the starkest warning the White House was given about bin Laden.

[SoCalDem]

1. and Woodruff has known about this for HOW long?

just like his "mum's the word" in the Plame issue.

Bob's a scuzzy dude..only interested in Bob

[Jacobin]

3. BEFORE he wrote his book praising bush for invading Iraq

What a useless hack and a disappointment to those of us old enough to remember Watergate

[BurtWorm]

9. You don't roll out your product before Labor Day.

;)

[Clarkie1]

19. Bingo. The timing of the books is a great Plan of Attack..so to speak.

He established a respected objectivity (which he does have), before releasing the big one.

[hippiechick]

2. Yeah, wasn't it Clarke who said Tenet acted 'like his hair was on fire'

... trying to get the Administration's attention on OBL and they totally dissed him?


Welllllllll .... :freak:

[ShortnFiery]

4. Guess who is NOT going to be allowed to visit the WH in the future?

Dear Leader is a very angry and petty personality. Anyone who profoundly contradicts him, even once, will find themselves smartly kicked out of the Club / Clutch / whatever immature gathering of people who are permitted to associate with King George. :P

[disndat]

23. This is significant.

One of the rats is jumping ship. The ship must be sinking.

[oasis]

5. That's the end of Condi's presidential hopes.

[Marr]

6. Thanks for letting all us outsiders know the details, Bob.

It's only been five fucking years. Is this guy trying salvage some credibility or something? Because I think it's far too late.

[Imagevision]

7. Rice, like Bush,Cheney,Rumsfeld lied they're way to phoney Iraq war!

Wolfowitz; "WMD's was the only premise for attacking Iraq we could all agree upon"

[indepat]

8. Gross incompetence/dereliction of duty is a.o.k. when practiced by

Repugs, but think how those RW talking heads, who are still apologists for every administration action, would be incessantly fulminating at the mouth and Repugs in Congress would be demanding full investigations and impeachment. This is how it works when some love their own partisan politics and ideology far more than they do their country.

[petersjo02]

10. Posted on another thread about this...

The only conclusion that I can come to after reading about this is the they LIHOP 9-11-01.

[melissinha]

12. LIHOP, totally!

You got it! How much evidence and inside testimony from intelligence officials, Armed Forces Personnel and general insiders before Congress decides that we've been duped.. I mean really HOW MUCH?

I think it has gone way to far that many in Congress are complicit.... don't go after our Democrats though because they were browbeaten time and time again with BS.... I think Specter should be absolutely ashamed of himself, the same goes for Intel Com Repukes and Armed Services Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins

Intelligence Committee
REPUBLICANS
Pat Roberts, Kansas Blue Ribbon JErk


Orrin G. Hatch, Utah Grade A Jerk
Mike Dewine, Ohio Grade A Jerk
Christopher S. Bond, Missouri
Trent Lott, Mississippi Grade A Jerk
Olympia J. Snowe, Maine Girl what you thinking?
Chuck Hagel, Nebraska Grade A Jerk
Saxby Chambliss, Georgia Grade A Jerk, he shoudln't even be Senator!


I KNOW these guys fough it, look at the list!
Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV, West Virginia, Vice Chairman
Carl Levin, Michigan
Dianne Feinstein, California
Ron Wyden, Oregon
Evan Bayh, Indiana
Barbara A. Mikulski, Maryland

[oasis]

11. Can we get a little "k&r" action on this thread?

[Straight Shooter]

13. We can indeed.

K&R.

Woodward is a creep.

[Imagevision]

14. Why the hell isn't this broad being hung out to dry??!!

[Stephanie]

15. And what did they do about it? Split town. Went on "vacation."

Suddenly George was spending the month of August in Crawford. The press had no notice, it was not on the schedule, it was the longest vacation in pres history IIRC, they had to spin it and made up ridiculous signage that said The Western White House, Bush took a lot of flak for it, but they persisted, vacationing right up to Labor Day. As soon as they got back to DC he went to Camp David. Immediately after that they went to Florida. They stayed out of harm's way. Cheney spent August in Wyoming.

[BurtWorm]

17. Interesting.

:think:

[KharmaTrain]

16. So What Made Tennet Jump The Shark?

What quid pro quo did he get for not only stopping his warnings but willing to fall on his sword for the BFEE? Is he working for the Carlisle group? Something musta happened between August and September, 2001 to the Director of Intelligence.

[BurtWorm]

18. One theory is that Bush wanted to keep Tenet on hand

to serve as a scapegoat when needed. The facts seem to fit the theory. Fortunately for the Bushists, Tenet didn't mind. He just wanted to keep his job.

[Imagevision]

20. Bush awards tenet Medal Of Freedom for providing false intel!?? WTF!

[janetle]

21. And he called Rice from his car--to get in.

Unbelievable.

[truedelphi]

22. Bin Laden was in an American hospital in Dubai July '01

And CIA visited him while he was there

Source The Coastal Post, January 2002 Article by Carol Sterritt

[Zambero]

24. The Superhighway to 9/11

Forget about ABC's "Road". We're talking 4 lanes (and 4 planes) going full speed ahead, with no delays or turnarounds in sight, thanks to Bushco's dysfunctional agency heads not bothering to communicate with one another. And in the absence of effective leadership in the face of credible threats, the rest was indeed history.

[AIJ Alom]

25. Of course she came them the brush. Who could have imagined such an attack?

There were absolutely no warnings. (END SARCASM) Makes you think we should rename the Department of State to the Department of Lies in honor of Condoleezza Rice.

[3waygeek]

26. IIRC it was also in July 2001

when then-Attorney General John Ashcroft decided to stop flying on commercial aircraft. Maybe he got the warning that Condi ignored.

[ClintonTyree]

27. So, now they compare our troops to "salted peanuts"...........

"At one point, to emphasize his position, he gave Michael Gerson, then a White House speech writer, a copy of a memo he wrote to Nixon in September, 1969. "Withdrawal of U.S. troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public; the more U.S. troops come home, the more will be demanded," Kissinger wrote".


:wtf: These are human beings, Kissassinger! Salted fucking peanuts? :wtf:

These are human lives we're talking about here, not a fucking barroom snack! :grr: Yeah, we wouldn't want "Little Boots" Bush to lose face now, would we? A phony fucking war perpetrated by a phony fucking president killing thousands of our young men and women, untold thousands of innocent Iraqis and all they're worried about is Bush's fucking image? :grr: God forbid we should want to stop this senseless waste of human life! :banghead:

I can't fucking believe it! :argh: