Yeah that's a good point beachnut … Swing since you are so good at filtering out all the valid threats received, amongst the hundreds received each year (possibly thousands), why don't you offer your services to the intelligence community so we can prevent these attacks from happening in the future instead of just sitting there at your keyboard and blaming people.
The intelligence community warned the Administration. It was up to the Administration to be proactive in their response. They weren't. They ignored the warnings. Hence, IMHO, the need to exert executive privilege to hamper the joint inquiry into discovering what they knew prior to 9/11 and why Rice lied about it. No need to apologize. This is what the Administration is known for.
You are displaying the 20/20 hindsight "I know everything and would have seen it coming, it was obvious!" attitude that is common amongst conspiracy theorists.
Hindsight? It is now a historical fact. It is an historical fact that the other than the color of their underwear, they knew OBL was planning on crashing airplanes into skyscrapers.
Swing I'm not questioning the validity of the reports you posted (they are real) but what I am saying is that it's easy in hindsight to connect all the dots and say it was obvious.Yes George Tenet agreed but not as you think, the intelligence community had felt for some time prior to 9/11 that an attack was imminent, the system was indeed blinking red and it was only a question of time. After all Bin Laden had stated on many occasions in the years prior to 9/11 that he was determined to attack the US. But they had nothing tangible to go on, to say they knew an attack was coming in exactly the same way it happened on 9/11 is ridiculous.
You have a great way of ignoring the historical record of warnings the IC gave to the president.
Someone with so much evidence, enough to get a Pulitzer Prize like you, who knows everything, did not warn me, did not warn the nation, did not make the security check better.What is your problem, why did you keep this a secret if you know so much now? So did Clinton refuse with Bush to talk? Who do you blame? I blame you! You knew UBL was out to do these things, at least you say so now.
Beach I'm only repeating what the Administration was told by the IC. You should be directing your frustration towards the Administration.
Who do you blame with all your non facts?
Please see the Report of the Joint Congressional Inquiry Into The Terrorist Attacks Of September 11 and the historical record for these non-facts.
You are blaming everyone in the country who could stop it?
Yeah that's what I'm doing Beach. All 300 million U.S. citizens. Head on back to your jet fuel that turns white at altitude.
why you do not have a Pulitzer Prize, cause the only person who even comes close to 9/11 pre warning is Tom Clancy,
Are you calling George Tenet and the IC a bunch of liars? Never mind, I know the answer.
But how could they have known the exact nature of the threat in order to enact measures that would have prevented 9/11?
Report of the Joint Congressional Inquiry Into The Terrorist Attacks Of September 11 and the historical record for the exact nature of the threats. You may also want to examine John Dean, a White House counsel under Nixon analysis of the threats:
here.
It's blatantly obvious many conspiracy theorists display an anti-government agenda, that's why virtually every major terrorist event, at some point, has been blamed on the government (OKC, 1993 WTC Bombing etc).
HAAAACHOOO!
