From the 9/11 Commisson Report:
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Two CIA analysts involved in preparing this briefing article believed it represented an opportunity to communicate their view that the threat of a Bin Ladin attack in the United States remained both current and serious. The result was an article in the August 6 Presidential Daily Brief titled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US." It was the 36th PDB item briefed so far that year that related to Bin Ladin or al Qaeda, and the first devoted to the possibility of an attack in the United States. The President told us the August 6 report was historical in nature. President Bush said the article told him that al Qaeda was dangerous, which he said he had known since he had become President.
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So George Jr sat on his ass and did what? Or was he on a prayer rug awaiting guidance?
When Clinton received a same warning, Clinton empowered federal employees to find and stop an impending attack. Diana Deans therefore stopped an LAX bombing, bombing the Raddission Hotel in Amann Jordan, and attacks on Egyptian tourists. She may have also stopped other simultaneous attacks in Montreal and Times Square also during that Millenium celebration. All this accomplished without a Patriot Act, without torture, without bogus Orange alerts, and without illegal wiretapping.
As George Jr sat on his ass, his administration quashed FBI investigations into 9/11 in AZ, MN, IL and Yemen. All investigations that were closing in on 9/11 terrorists were halted months before 11 September. George Jr could not bother to read a memo warning of a specific attack involving buildings and airplanes. (But then read his autobiography to appreciate why.) Instead George Jr removed the nation's #1 anti-terrorism investigator from government. He removed Richard Clark's anti-terrorism unit from the White House and demoted it from a Cabinet level position. Removed it from where Clinton had put it because Clinton read his memos and did his job.
But then nothing here is new. Just repeating a fact - that George Jr is so mentally deficient as to even say, "No one expected the levees to be breached." A statement that should be repeated as often as George Jr conspired to kill Americans in LA. Should be repeated when someone shows respect for a president who does not deserve it. Where was the USS Bataan for five days while Americans were dying? Where was the USS Lincoln for five days as Tsunami victims were dying? Oh. George first had to make a decision. It took five days to make a decision about saving lives.