9-11 Commission not told of Tenet, Black meeting Rice 7/10/01

[RamboLiberal]

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The book also reports that then-CIA Director George J. Tenet and his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, grew so concerned in the summer of 2001 about a possible al-Qaeda attack that they drove straight to the White House to get high-level attention.

Tenet called Rice, then the national security adviser, from his car to ask to see her, in hopes that the surprise appearance would make an impression. But the meeting on July 10, 2001, left Tenet and Black frustrated and feeling brushed off, Woodward reported. Rice, they thought, did not seem to feel the same sense of urgency about the threat and was content to wait for an ongoing policy review.

The report of such a meeting takes on heightened importance after former president Bill Clinton said this week that the Bush team did not do enough to try to kill Osama bin Laden before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) said her husband would have paid more attention to warnings of a possible attack than Bush did. Rice fired back on behalf of the current president, saying the Bush administration "was at least as aggressive" in eight months as President Clinton had been in eight years.

The July 10 meeting of Rice, Tenet and Black went unmentioned in various investigations into the Sept. 11 attacks, and Woodward wrote that Black "felt there were things the commissions wanted to know about and things they didn't want to know about."

Jamie S. Gorelick, a member of the Sept. 11 commission, said she checked with commission staff members who told her investigators were never told about a July 10 meeting. "We didn't know about the meeting itself," she said. "I can assure you it would have been in our report if we had known to ask about it."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092901593.html

[pansypoo53219]

1. jeepers

is booby worried georgie is gonna nuke iWan or something?

[BadgerKid]

2. Link to thread over at TP

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/30/911-meeting

Bump

[Gabi Hayes]

3. such a silly question, but...

did Tenet forget to mention this meeting in his 911 commission testimony? guess it was VERY unimportant, and, as such, must've slipped his mind

kind of like Stephen Hadley forgot about Tenet's telling them not to include the Niger yellowcake wording in Bush's October, 2002 speech

that sorta thing....

[Gabi Hayes]

4. that was quick.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2270868