Two Months Before 9/11, an Urgent Warning to Rice

[brettdale]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR2006093000282.html

Two Months Before 9/11, an Urgent Warning to Rice

On July 10, 2001, two months before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, then-CIA Director George J. Tenet met with his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, at CIA headquarters to review the latest on Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorist organization. Black laid out the case, consisting of communications intercepts and other top-secret intelligence showing the increasing likelihood that al-Qaeda would soon attack the United States. It was a mass of fragments and dots that nonetheless made a compelling case, so compelling to Tenet that he decided he and Black should go to the White House immediately.

Tenet called Condoleezza Rice, then national security adviser, from the car and said he needed to see her right away. There was no practical way she could refuse such a request from the CIA director.

[Jeroen]

1. LIHOP K&R

[90-percent]

2. If

If they told us we'd lose the lives of 3,000 innocent Americans, we would have done something.

-85% Jimmy

[kellenburger]

3. Look at that photo.

It drives me nuts that he looks at everyone with contempt.

"All this presidentin' is cuttin' into mah free time"

I would think you could at least pretend to be
interested in running the free world.

[TomClash]

4. Payback nt

[driver8]

5. But...but...but...Condi's area of expertise is Russia!

You can't expect her to care what a bunch of A-rabs are doing, can you??

This whole administration is guilty of "dereliction of duty."