Date Aug. 7, 2001. Bush Declared Emergency? Not Quite

[BeFree]

President bush on that day (should have) issued this statement:

"Yesterday I was informed by the head of the CIA that Osama bin Laden has teams in the US that are here to create an attack meant to kill thousands of Americans. The CIA believes that they will hijack airplanes. I call upon the FBI to take in for questioning all the suspected al qeada members that we know are in the US. Due to our intelligEnce agencies we may have averted a major disaster."

[Earth_First]

1. Wasnt he still at the pig farm in early august?

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2. Yes, he was. In fact, so was most of his cabinet. n/t

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3. Because he had no intention of thwarting the attacks:

"All right. You've covered your ass, now."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/19/AR2006061901211.html

...snip...

Tenet and his loyalists also settle a few scores with the White House here. The book's opening anecdote tells of an unnamed CIA briefer who flew to Bush's Texas ranch during the scary summer of 2001, amid a flurry of reports of a pending al-Qaeda attack, to call the president's attention personally to the now-famous Aug. 6, 2001, memo titled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US." Bush reportedly heard the briefer out and replied: "All right. You've covered your ass, now." Three months later, with bin Laden holed up in the Afghan mountain redoubt of Tora Bora, the CIA official managing the Afghanistan campaign, Henry A. Crumpton (now the State Department's counterterrorism chief), brought a detailed map to Bush and Cheney. White House accounts have long insisted that Bush had every reason to believe that Pakistan's army and pro-U.S. Afghan militias had bin Laden cornered and that there was no reason to commit large numbers of U.S. troops to get him. But Crumpton's message in the Oval Office, as told through Suskind, was blunt: The surrogate forces were "definitely not" up to the job, and "we're going to lose our prey if we're not careful."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/19/AR2006061901211.html


Hey BeFree! Up for some fresh air, eh?

[BeFree]

4. Gulp!!

It's all there for anyone who wants to read it.

Just imagine the world today if bush had really wanted Americans to have freedom.

[Echo In Light]

5. PNAC

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6. Why were they let off the hook around here anyways? Seems like no

one talks about PNAC anymore, despite the crimes they've committed and continue to committ and get away with.

Oh, yeah...Wall Street stole their thunder once we had our own president.

[Echo In Light]

8. it's like ignoring the spouse who took out a large ins policy on the other prior to mysterious death

Nothing to see here, folks. Pure coincidence. A very long line of astonishing "coincidences."

[EFerrari]

7. The collective "unthought known". There was so much noise that summer

even I heard it and at that time, I was barely on the net, let alone following DU every day. We were in a bubble and even so, we heard reports of impending attacks. So bizarre.

[BeFree]

10. Yep

There was a buzz. The media was buzzing the fact that AG Ashcroft had quit flying commercial because his security team advised him to stop.

Y'know, if bushco had made just one official statement and alerted the people and the airlines, the planes may have never been hijacked and the invasion of the Middle East may have never occurred. Funny how all that happened, eh?

[Echo In Light]

9. Bump

[BeFree]

11. Shameless kick