What we did know leading up to 9/11.

I watched this yesterday and was amazed at what they did know.
Breitweiser is one of the 9/11 widows who fought for the creation of the 9/11 commission, this was her react to Rice‘s testimony.

Hardball with Chris Matthews' for April 8
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4702398/

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BREITWEISER: Whether or not 9/11 could have been prevented, I think, needs to be looked at by answering the following questions. This is the information the intel community had.

Meetings in Malaysia that the hijackers attended. The CIA did surveillance in that meeting. Two of those hijackers entered this country and had an FBI informant as their roommate in San Diego. They had their name in the phone book.

Another hijacker, they had the name Marwin (ph), and they had a phone number. That was Mohamed Atta, the ringleader‘s roommate in Hamburg, Germany.

We had money wire transfers coming from known al Qaeda operatives over in Europe, coming into this country in increments in excess of $10,000.

We had them training in flight school, flight schools that you needed State Department clearance to attend.

We had them—we know that the FBI had a file on Mohamed Atta. They started that file in 1999.

You have all of these facts together.

You have the chatter from the NSA. You have Moussaoui in the flight school.

You have the Phoenix memo.

You have open testimony in New York City with FBI agents talking about Project Bojinka, a plot by al Qaeda to blow up planes over the Pacific, in the alternative, fly a plane into CIA headquarters


Matthews had this question for Senator Graham


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MATTHEWS: Well, what did you make of the—this development that we now know the president while on his ranch in Crawford, Texas, almost exactly a month before 9/11, was briefed on the following.

The heading of the briefing was “Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States.” It included such information as the fact that bin Laden apparently, quote, “liked the results of the ‘93 bombing of the attack on the World Trade Center,” that in fact there was a danger to the courthouse where the African embassy bombers were being tried in New York City, which is two blocks away from the World Trade Center.
And there was also information that the FBI had found patterns of suspicious behavior in the United States consistent with hijacking.
All of that under the heading of “Inside the United States.” Nothing
· Up until this time, wasn‘t Mrs. Rice saying—Ms. Rice saying “We were focused outside the United States”? Now we‘re getting information there was threats and warnings about inside threats.

GRAHAM: There certainly were. And we also had some other information.
We knew there were people down in Arizona, large numbers of Arab nationals, who were getting flight training.

We knew that there was another Arab national in Minnesota who only wanted to learn how to fly a plane, not to take off or land.

And there was somebody not far from where I live in Florida who had only flown a small plane who now was operating a simulator for a 737.
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All this information and "we" still could not connect the dots.Why is the media giving Rice a pass on this?

that Bush sloughed off every day. Yet they acted in ways upon that information that shows their main concern was for THEIR Big Picture and personal survival. No one wanted to connect any such dots. The picture was going to be Iraq and domination at home no matter what.

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