it's hard to read all this and still believe they didn't know

[welshTerrier2]

only those who hid from all these sources of information could not have seen the truth ... "how many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn't see?" ... and only those who choose to deny the truth today can hide from its ugliness ... yeah, they knew ...

source: http://gadflyer.com/flytrap/

Consider:

* The President's now infamous August 6, 2001, intelligence briefing warned that Osama bin Laden was seeking to hijack aircraft. The White House at first claimed that there was no indication that the attacks would be on American soil. Later, it was revealed that the briefing was titled "Bin Laden determined to strike in the U.S.

* According to the Sunday Herald, "Britain gave President Bush a categorical warning to expect multiple airline hijackings by the al-Qaeda network a month before the September 11 attacks…" British intelligence had previously warned of attacks using aircraft in Washington DC and New York.

* According to Newsweek, a classified report by a joint Congressional inquiry found that the CIA had warned the white House just over a month before the attacks that Osama bin Laden was about to launch a terrorist strike "in the coming weeks." Agency officials warned: "The attack will be spectacular and designed to inflict mass casualties against U.S. facilities or interests. Attack preparations have been made. Attack will occur with little or no warning."

* According to the British Independent, "Weeks before the terrorist attacks on 11 September, the United States and the United Nations ignored warnings from a secret Taliban emissary that Osama bin Laden was planning a huge attack on American soil. The warnings were delivered by an aide of Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, the Taliban Foreign Minister at the time, who was known to be deeply unhappy with the foreign militants in Afghanistan, including Arabs."

* The New York Times reported ($$) that Egyptian intelligence had warned U.S. intelligence a week before the attack that Al Qaeda "was in advance stages of executing significant operation against American targets" based on intelligence from a secret agent in close contact with Bin Laden.

* The Telegraph of London reported that "two senior experts with Mossad, the Israeli military intelligence service, were sent to Washington in August to alert the CIA and FBI to the existence" of a terror cell inside the U.S. and warned "that large-scale terrorist attacks on highly visible targets on the American mainland were imminent."

* James Ridgeway reported in the Village Voice that both Russian and Jordanian intelligence had warned of pending attacks in the U.S. during the summer of 2001; both warnings were specifically of "suicide pilots" training for attacks on U.S. soil.

* Journalist William Rivers Pitt reported that during the summer of 2001: "The German intelligence service, BND, warned American and Israeli agencies that terrorists were planning to hijack commercial aircraft and use them as weapons to attack important American targets."

* Military intelligence officials claim they had identified 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta and three other 9/11 hi-jackers well before the attack (others have disputed the claim).

* James Ridgeway reported that U.S. intelligence officials had ignored French intelligence's warnings about Zacarias Moussaoui, an Algerian believed to have been planning to accompany the hi-jackings.

* FBI agents in Minnesota had launched an investigation into Moussaoui, but their information was ignored by Washington.

[AndyA]

1. The conclusion is without question.

George W. Bush and his Administration were negligent in performing their duties, and placed the American people in danger due to their negligence.

What they did was nothing short of treasonous.

[kaygore]

2. My conclusion was that Bushco was complicit

All this was old news to them.

[Rageneau]

3. And pundits wonder why we suspect we are being lied to.

There would be no speculation as to LIHOP and MIHOP if everyone were convinced that the government was telling us the whole truth about 9/11. But because it is obvious that much information is STILL being kept from us, it is inevitable that people will assume that the reason we are being kept in the dark is because there's a cover-up going on.

And considering that BushCo is involved, how can anyone believe there is NOT a cover-up going on?

[Raster]

4. We are either talking of multiple examples of incompetence of the highest

magnitude by multiple parties in the bush* administration or outright collaboration. Or perhaps even BOTH.

The bush* administration has spent far more time and money resisting and hindering investigation of 9/11 than actually investigating 9/11 itself.

:kick:ONE!

[Marnieworld]

5. Yet no one ever asks why it took two planes to hit us before

they reacted as if we were being attacked. By his own admission Bush knew of one plane hitting the WTC center and continued with his planned photo-op. Why did it take 2 planes to hit before they considered it an attack when they had so much warning as to the exact nature of the planned attacks. Who cares how many minutes he sat there reading My Pet Goat? He should never have gone into the building with one plane hitting the WTC and 3 planes highjacked at that point.

[orwell]

6. K&R'd

For truth on a day of filled with lies.