6 intel reports on Terror attack w/plane - Alterman w/sources, but Condi

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Condi could not imagine it happening - and our National media lets her say this without comment

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/

Warning Signs A look at some intelligence reports in the 1990s that warned of terrorist attacks with airliners:

1994 Eiffel Tower threat: "Algerian Armed Islamic Group terrorists hijacked an Air France flight...and threatened to crash it into the Eiffel Tower."

1995 Bojinka Plot to blow up American jets over the Pacific: "An accomplice of Ramzi Yousef told police in the Philippines that a variant of the plot involved flying a plane on a suicide mission into CIA headquarters."

1996 Iranian plot to crash Japanese jet in Israel: "A passenger would board the plane in the Far East, commandeer the aircraft, order it to fly over Tel Aviv, and crash the plane into the city."

1998 Alleged plan by al Qaeda-linked terrorists to crash plane into World Trade Center: "...A group, since linked to al-Qa'ida, planned to fly an explosives-laden plane from a foreign country into the World Trade Center."

1998 Alleged Osama bin Laden plot to crash plane into a U.S. airport: "...Bin Ladin's next operation might involve flying an explosives-laden aircraft into a U.S. airport..."

1999 Federal Research Division Report on terrorism: "Suicide bomber(s)... could crash-land an aircraft...into the Pentagon...or the White House."

Sources: 1999: Federal Research Division Report; 1998, 1996, 1994: Congressional Joint Inquiry on intelligence relating to Sept. 11, issued July 2003; ''The Age of Sacred Terror'' by Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, published October 2002.

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1. That's a bit much for an NSA not to know.

Condi is good with words. Just looked at her 60 Minutes act I recorded. She doesn't lie. She quickly phrases for a slightly changed question.

Her answer to a question about her statement on not knowing they would fly planes into buildings will deftly imply Clinton people never told her followed quickly by a resolute we did everything we could do hyperbolic. She could even speak that they never TOLD her, not speaking they gave her written, not spoken information.

They used that told versus written trick in the WH trashing scandal when Bush people could give no information to three separate investigations because they asked for documents, and that time, they kept all the information in their heads, so there were no documents.