New Photos Show Bush Administration Reaction to 9/11 Attacks (graphic pic warning)

[babsbunny]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/new-photos-show-bush-administration-reaction-to-911-attacks/

July 24, 2015, 2:50 pm ET

In never-before-released photographs taken on Sept. 11, 2001, the shock, horror and gravity of the terrorist attacks can be read on the faces of President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, their wives Laura and Lynne, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, CIA Director George Tenet and other senior Bush and Cheney staffers.

The photos were released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Colette Neirouz Hanna, coordinating producer for the Kirk Documentary Group, which covered the Bush administration in many films for FRONTLINE, including Bush’s War, Cheney’s Law and The Dark Side.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. It needs a graphic pic warning

all of the keyboards that will get ruined from the vomit, otherwise!

[Rex]

2. Looks like a very complicit group of people. Oh was this to pretend like they had feelings?

Cheney looks like he can't wait to start a war in this picture...er...really upset etc..blah blah barf...

[AllFieldsRequired]

3. I see a war criminal or two or three in that photograph.

[Rex]

4. Me too, Cheney looks like he is ready to take over the world.

[people]

5. Cheney - shocking pictures but not for the reasons stated in the article

I see a smile lurking just below the surface on Cheney and, a little wonder on his face as well, about how big the explosion was and how quickly the buildings came down. A man who enjoyed the show. That really is how he, in particular. looks.

[Arugula Latte]

11. "All went as planned ..."

[Jamastiene]

7. None of them are going to win any Oscars if that's the best they could do.

Half of them look bored to me.

[BurfBrainiac]

8. Condi looks like she's remembering all the warnings she ignored

"No one could possibly have imagined that we would be so careless and incompetent. " - condi

[Arugula Latte]

12. "Can't wait to tell the shareholders -- Iraq's a go!"

[Jamastiene]

6. Half of them look bored.

One looks like he just looked at his watch. Most of them look bored, really. I can't get over there. The rest of us felt...terror, horror, sadness. They show none of those types of expressions.

[Rex]

9. They all look like it is Business as Usual, the head hanging down shit means nothing.

People look down all the time BFD. Yeah the REST of us were all shocked, crying, horrified and scared.

[lindysalsagal]

10. None of that inspires confidence. No surprise, there.

They look more bored and annoyed than anything else.

[nationalize the fed]

13. "Throughout the morning they were receiving reports of airplanes headed toward the White House"

Yet Air Force Jets didn't arrive in DC until a few minutes before 10 am, almost 20 minutes after the Pentagon was hit.

Does this sound credible? After a ~50 year "cold war" with a nuclear armed opponent? No AA batteries around the pentagon to protect against attack airplanes?

Porter Goss says airplane attacks were always considered, making a liar out of Condi Rice.

[MrMickeysMom]

14. Captions galore with this one...

Keep Junior occupied until I can clear NORADS' timeline… Then, get me some some fresh infant blood…

[Delmette]

15. I don't see shock and horror.

I see how the f*** can we spin this to our advantage. I don't see the blinding, numbing, what's next that I felt.

[HereSince1628]

16. I see concern, perhaps grave concern, I possibly see unhappiness

I don't see minds working to invoke Shock Doctrine. -That- came later, iirc, Rice made a statment that -every- circumstance presented opportunity.