While ABC presents a campaign promo for the GOP the media questions ignore raised in investigative reporter Ron siskind's sserious book, The One Percent Doctrine which examines the Bush administrations handling of the terrorist threat before and after 9-11.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200609070006Media overlook crucial questions raised by Suskind's new bookSummary: Investigative reporter Ron Suskind's new book, The One Percent Doctrine, includes numerous significant revelations regarding the White House's handling of the terrorism threat, but news outlets have largely ignored the compelling and relevant questions raised by Suskind's disclosures.
Why did Bush ignore the advice of the CIA that bin Laden would escape at Tora Bora if more troops were not sent? What advice did he receive from Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld or other top administration officials?Suskind disclosed that Hank Crumpton, the CIA officer overseeing the agency's hunt for bin Laden in Afghanistan in 2001, personally warned Bush that the United States risked "los(ing) our prey" if more troops were not sent to help in the effort. Specifically, Crumpton told Bush in a November 2001 meeting that additional U.S. forces were needed because the Pakistani soldiers and local Afghan militias that had cornered bin Laden in the mountains near Tora Bora were "definitely not" equipped to capture him themselves. (Page 59) According to Suskind, Bush repeatedly received classified reports from the CIA in early December that the "back door is open" -- referring to the unmanned Afghanistan-Pakistan border. (Page 74) But the Bush administration never committed more troops to the area, and the Al Qaeda leader ultimately escaped.
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