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Originally Posted by lookout123
Just so everyone undersands what that PDB really said. It did not say that terrorist are going to grab some planes and fly them into buildings. It did not say when anything about timing. It did say that 70+ investigations were underway on various possible Bin Laden schemes.
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Also the entire memo is not provided in the 9/11 Commission Report. But interviews with the two CIA agents who wrote the report said they wanted to convey that attacks were imminent. Therefore they started the report with:
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Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US
Clandestine, foreign government, and media reports indicate Bin Ladin since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US. Bin Ladin implied in US television interviews in 1997 and 1998 that his followers would follow the example of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef and “bring the fighting to America.”
After US missile strikes on his base in Afghanistan in 1998, Bin Ladin told followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington, according to a [—] service.
An Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative told an [—] service at the same time that Bin Ladin was planning to exploit the operative’s access to the US to mount a terrorist strike.
The millennium plotting in Canada in 1999 may have been part of Bin Ladin’s first serious attempt to implement a terrorist strike in the US. Convicted plotter Ahmed Ressam has told the FBI that he conceived the idea to attack Los Angeles International Airport himself, but that Bin Ladin lieutenant Abu Zubaydah encouraged him and helped facilitate the operation. Ressam also said that in 1998 Abu Zubaydah was planning his own US attack.
Ressam says Bin Ladin was aware of the Los Angeles operation.
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Lets not forget where all George Jr's knowledge comes from - a 1.5 year indoctrination by Wolfowich and Rice. Rice apparently did not even know of al Qaeda. So how could this memo really be historical in nature. George Jr never once convened a principals meeting on terrorism. Not one. al Qaeda and terrorism was that irrelevant. The information was that new to him.
The memo says highjacking planes and survellience of buildings. So when the second plane strikes the WTC and Geroge Jr is told America is under attack, then what does he do. He had sufficient information to conclude this was the attack. Instead he just sat there and asked no questions. Not one question for seven minutes. Instead he picked up and read a children's book. When he receieved this PDB, he did not do as Clinton did - output a warning - empower the little people. George Jr did not even convene one meeting on this "historical" threat.
We have just too much good reason to believe George Jr did not even read the PDB. Tenant always gave the briefing verbally - a waste of valuable manpower. Yes, there is substantial evidence that George Jr did not even read the PDB which is why he really could not "put the dots together" during the attack or convene a meeting before the attack.
Is George Jr qualified to be a leader - or is he really just another Dan Quayle. Did he do anything wrong - the embarrassing two minutes where he could not even answer that question on national TV. Classic leadership abilities. He could not even run a successful company - having been excellent at drilling dry well but getting rich in the process.
This is presidential material - a man who does not even read his own memos? He did not see the serious danger specifically stated in that 6 August PDB. George Jr did nothing to stop terrorism - except build an antimissile defense system and read a childs book in a FL classroom.