Spin This! Rummy impeded bin laden efforts BEFORE 9/11

[burythehatchet]

The 537-page book describes tensions among senior officials from the very beginning of the administration. Mr. Woodward writes that in the weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. Tenet believed that Mr. Rumsfeld was impeding the effort to develop a coherent strategy to capture or kill Osama bin Laden. Mr. Rumsfeld questioned the electronic signals from terrorism suspects that the National Security Agency had been intercepting, wondering whether they might be part of an elaborate deception plan by Al Qaeda.

On July 10, 2001, the book says, Mr. Tenet and his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, met with Ms. Rice at the White House to impress upon her the seriousness of the intelligence the agency was collecting about an impending attack. But both men came away from the meeting feeling that Ms. Rice had not taken the warnings seriously.


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/washington/29account.html?ex=1160193600&en=8896c1bd39c63ebf&ei=5065&partner=MYWAY

[babylonsister]

1. The PNAC in him kickin' in, no doubt. nt

[spag68]

2. During that time period

there were many small items in the news that told anyone paying attention that something was up. Some in my family were upset with me way back then because of my bitching about them, now they don't want to remember what I said.

[Imagevision]

3. Rice was busy doing at least as much as Clinton administration when

for eight months she was busy doing Botox injections, shoe shopping...

[applegrove]

4. No need to call it "spin" if it is the truth.

[EstimatedProphet]

5. Of course he did! You have to protect your employees, after all!

[burythehatchet]

8. at the risk of being banished to the basement

these fuckers did 9/11

[SammyWinstonJack]

14. MIHOP!

:grr:

[librechik]

20. yes--it 's teeny weeny facts like this that convince me MIHOP

what other explanantion could there be?

[annabanana]

6. Keith Olberman NAILED a Feb. 2001 offer of Osama by

the Taliban from a press conference:

Go to 2:00 minutes into this toutube!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXNCLbsBIfM

[burythehatchet]

9. Saw it. It was a great segment.

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. The why did the DOD put the military on high alert

2 or 3 times during the year 2001 before the 9-11 attack?

[FogerRox]

10. Just a little Kn R

[exlrrp]

11. Why wasn't all this in "Plan of Attack?"

Woodward's had easy access to the WH throughout the Bush administration. Why wasn't all this stuff in Plan of Attack?

[Justice]

28. or in the Washington Post?? Woodward held it to sell his book.

Disgusting.

[H2O Man]

12. The information

about Rice ignoring Tenet & Black's attempts to nail Usama bin Laden are perhaps the most damaging thing in the entire book.

[Spazito]

13. Couple that with the fact they hid this from the 9/11 Commission

and the damage becomes even more extensive, imo.

[H2O Man]

17. The fact they have

hid this, from the 9/11 Commission and from the public, is outrageous.

Interesting timing, considering the Bill Clinton public spanking of the Fox News lap dog, too. This and the Colin Powell information are almost like pieces of a puzzle falling together for the general public. (Of course, if people read DU, they would already know most of what passes for "news" today!)

[Spazito]

21. I have always believed nothing, in politics, happens in isolation from

other "things". The timing is, indeed, interesting. It seems the facts surrounding the actions taken, or NOT taken, by the bush cabal are coming to light in a manner that may well remove the blinders many of the public have been wearing. What is particularly fascinating to me are the diverse "factions" now working to bring those facts to light whereas, previously, it was primarily the democrats.

[burythehatchet]

26. I agree completely, and

the fact that all three of these individuals misled the 911 commission is as much of a smoking gun as one could find. This is the evidence that proves their efforts to cover up and mislead the commission. I believe they were all under oath.

[slater71]

15. A line of people

At Barnes and Noble yesterday when I bought my copy.

[DemonFighterLives]

16. Rice was being paid to turn away

and then go on babbling how everything was being done.
No one dare get in the way of the stove piped cia information orinterrogate the infidels who were in the country on Visa.
:nuke:

She must be feeling real good with herself for getting involved with such deep crimes. Makes her either stupid or evil, and not too many other choices.
:dem:

[aquart]

27. What kind of shoes do they issue in prison?

[DemonFighterLives]

18. The sidewinder seven

for lack of a better name.



The 3 on the left, I can't make out, I think one is Hadley.

[DemonFighterLives]

19. Rummy's mind is twisting around knowns and unknowns

Condi clueless.
dubby doesn't even have a briefing or color crayon in his hand- dreaming of riding his bike. ding, ding

GFY cheney looks like he is falling asleep.

[DemReadingDU]

22. Hayden? Negroponte? Hadley

those are my guesses

[DemonFighterLives]

25. Thanks

Do you have a name for the group?
Evil incarnate
Devil's Seven
:dem:

[msmcghee]

23. Just a small suggestion.

You might edit your title to "Spin This! Rummy impeded anti-bin laden efforts BEFORE 9/11

[mdmc]

24. nice

:kick: too late to R