Commission on 9/11 Paints Picture of FAILURE

Two days of testimony before the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks have revealed that U.S. officials from President Bush (news - web sites) down failed to respond adequately to growing signs that a terror strike was imminent in the summer of 2001.

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This week's testimony has made it much clearer that there was a wealth of intelligence available in the summer of 2001 indicating that a major terrorist attack was coming.

Commissioner Jamie Gorelick, a deputy attorney general under President Bill Clinton (news - web sites), said she read the intelligence briefings given to Bush before Sept. 11 and the information on the gathering threats "would set your hair on fire."

But Richard Clarke, the head of counterintelligence under both Bush and Clinton, said he could not get the incoming Bush administration in 2001 to convene a top level meeting to even discuss the threat.

Finally, Clarke wrote to national security adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) asking her to imagine how she and others would feel if an attack did happen and killed hundreds of Americans. The letter was sent on Sept. 4 -- one week before hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (news - web sites).

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=564&e=1&u=/nm/20040324/ts_nm/security_commission_report_dc_3

DTH

This is the MAINSTREAM FUCKING MEDIA reporting this. Using damning language like this.

I am in shock. I am really starting to believe this could be as big as I've been hoping.

DTH

That reads as if one of us had written it.

Vote it up, folks. We want that on the front page.

have you been taking a posting break? Good to see you back.

:-)

Thanks for the heads-up on the other thing, too!

DTH

:wow:

It's like for 2 1/2 years after a tragic death in one's family, where no body is found and no individual is brought to justice, a suspect is found. And soon after, another suspect, and then another. And damning evidence of these suspects' guilt is presented day after day. The country can finally grieve. And not just for the lives lost at the WTC and at the Pentagon. But for our lost beneficent government. For the loss of our place in the world. For the loss of our innocence.

We can finally grieve. It is finally time.

It's good to see the authorities start to pay attention.

The opportunity for the Republicans to slam Clinton might make this a unanimous decision, too.

I hope that enough Americans pay attention to this.

Very well said.

If newspapers are now reviewing the information they were fed leading up to the Iraq War and it turns out Cheney knew the information was false, it's conceivable we will have the Agnew-Ford-Nixon situation we had in in the 1970s.

We should give some thought on a suitable replacement for Cheney in the next few months. We can't afford to let Bush nominate a Republican who has covered for them.

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