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Originally posted by Nedder
Path and Machine, don't believe the hype.
The information you are referring to is information that came out in '99 before Bush even came to office, which wasn't a whole helluva lot different than information that came out of '95,96 from the Philippines.
Two admninistrations obviously didn't find the threats credible, they were both wrong. But this whole conspiracy bullshit that they knew it was going to happen it was on the horizon and they didn't do shit is just more X-files crapola.
Need to get real folks.
Nz
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Some of the information you are referring to (I think) was acted upon by the CIA. It is my understanding that the '99 information was actually obtained by a captured terrorist that was part of the planning, so this in and of itself may have curtailed that particular plan.
Ari Flietcher has already sung the tune that some of this information was pre George Bush so they were not aware of it. There should be institutional memory and they should have been aware that there were multiple plans that had been learned over the years about terrorist flying aircraft into targets.
Condoleezza Rice said that this had never even been considered or discussed in the briefings the President received and that no one had ever considered this possibility. I don't know that she is telling the truth about the briefings, but the scenario was certainly considered by intel (as we now know), and I believe there is much more to learn about this subject.
A full investigation needs to be done to see who new what, when they new it and what, if any, action was taken. I am not just talking about weeks, or months prior to 9/11. I am talking about since we first knew that we were under attack by UBL and his organization, by land and sea, and now by air. If in fact there has not been institutional memory this is plain stupid and needs to be fixed.
I am of the opinion that we have just seen the tip of the iceberg.