PRESS RELEASE Citizens for Corporate Accountability
(SEATTLE) 04/09/04 - The revelation of the existence of a memo entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."--just five weeks before the 9/11 attacks--raises more questions than it answers.
And despite the testimony of Condaleeza Rice, few minds are put to rest. What people really want to know--particularly the families of the deceased--is why some warning of the strike didn’t make it out to their loved ones in those weeks.
Indeed, while the actual memo has yet to be released(NOW IT HAS BEEN, LOOK BELOW), there are now plenty of other avenues open for investigation. One important avenue is to determine to whom, and when such knowledge of the imminent attacks was communicated. Specifically, given the administrations close ties with various non-elected policy, defense, and corporate groups, it makes sense to explore whether information was released to the private sector, even though no warning was communicated to ordinary folks.
A close examination of pre-911 activities of certain privileged associates of Bush, Cheney, and others is now called for. After all, Americans would expect that Pre-9/11 information wasn’t leaked "for benefit or profit" to a privileged few--while so many others went on their way to work, or to the airport that morning...and on to their deaths.
NOW today:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9642-2004Apr13.html By the time a CIA briefer gave President Bush the Aug. 6, 2001, President's Daily Brief headlined "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US," the president had seen a stream of alarming reports on al Qaeda's intentions. So had Vice President Cheney and Bush's top national security team, according to newly declassified information released yesterday by the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.