Bush/Cheney Ignored 9/11 Warnings Then Hid The Fact....

g under p

http://www.occupydemocrats.com/ex-cia-chief-bush-cheney-deliberately-ignored-warnings-of-911-hid-paper-trail/


It has long been suspected that the George W. Bush administration had advance warning of the 9/11 attacks and did nothing to respond to it. Those suspicions have now been confirmed by former CIA Director George Tenet and counter-terrorism chief Cofer Black in an astonishing new interview with POLITICO, in which they reveal that they informed the Bush administration in May 2001 of an imminent terrorist attack, and those warnings were deliberately ignored with all the hubris that has come to characterize Bush’s disastrous presidency.

Tenet recounts how the CIA presented a plan (the “Blue Sky” paper) to deal with the growing threat from al-Qaeda in early 2001 – and were not only told to shelve the plan, they were told to hide the paper trail that showed that the Administration had been warned. The Bush Administration refused to recognize the severity of the threat posed by al-Qaeda: “I think they were mentally stuck back eight years [before]. They were used to terrorists being Euro-lefties—they drink champagne by night, blow things up during the day, how bad can this be? And it was a very difficult sell to communicate the urgency to this” said Tenet.



On July 10th, the CIA’s al-Qaeda unit presented concrete evidence that there would be a significant terrorist attack on American soil. “The information that we had compiled was absolutely compelling. It was multiple-sourced. And it was sort of the last straw” says Cofer. He details how National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was told that “there will be significant terrorist attacks against the United States in the coming weeks or months. The attacks will be spectacular. They may be multiple. Al Qaeda’s intention is the destruction of the United States.” And nothing was done.

And so, with nineteen volunteers and a budget of around $500,000, al-Qaeda was able to destroy the World Trade Centers, kill thousands of Americans, and provoke us into two horrendously expensive wars that destabilized the geopolitical world order and led to the deaths of millions across the world. George Bush and Dick Cheney’s criminal negligence is difficult to understand. Were they really so arrogant that they refused to acknowledge the threat posed by Muslim extremists? Or were they silently complicit? “To me it remains incomprehensible still. I mean, how is it that you could warn senior people so many times and nothing actually happened? It’s kind of like The Twilight Zone,” laments Tenet. If the case for war crimes against Bush and Cheney isn’t strong enough already, treason can now be added to that list. There is no punishment great enough for what they’ve done to our nation and the world.


.....and SOME TODAY will say that GWBush is NOT one of THE worst Presidents this country has ever elected.....then again that first time around I'm not sure he was ever elected. Yet today they must be around 199 Bengazi investigations while we carry on as if the Bush/Cheney regime didn't have any knowledge of the pending attacks. They both will say though THEY protected us while THEY were in office....yeah right.

Peace

g under p

Here's another link from Politico Magazine......

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/11/cia-directors-documentary-911-bush-213353

Peace

dignin

No surprises here g under p, thanks for posting.

rgambs

All I have to say is...
Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi

JimmyV

Takes the oath of office in January, ignores intelligence like this in May. It wasn't circumstance that turned Bush into the worst President in U.S. history. He was that from the very beginning.

BS44325

Funny reading this. This is just like Clinton blaming bengazi on a video. Here we have charter members of the coalition of the unwilling refusing to accept that the world is burning under a foreign policy they have advocated for.

Bentleyspop

This is old news.

However, for those blaming bush, you've got the wrong guy.

He is to blame for nothing as he was never aware of anything.

Blame should fall on those actually in charge...

Cheney
Rove
Rumsfeld
Powell
Etc

rgambs

BS44325 said:

Funny reading this. This is just like Clinton blaming bengazi on a video. Here we have charter members of the coalition of the unwilling refusing to accept that the world is burning under a foreign policy they have advocated for.

How so? I haven't seen any discussion on post 9-11 foreign policy. Everything I see here is about the lead up to the attack.
Maybe you are confused about which thread you are in?

bootlegger10

That is brutal. It sounds like GWB was run over by Dick Cheney.

It must suck to be like Tenet and to pass on info and not be able to speak out about it due to national security.

BS44325

rgambs said:

BS44325 said:

Funny reading this. This is just like Clinton blaming bengazi on a video. Here we have charter members of the coalition of the unwilling refusing to accept that the world is burning under a foreign policy they have advocated for.

How so? I haven't seen any discussion on post 9-11 foreign policy. Everything I see here is about the lead up to the attack.
Maybe you are confused about which thread you are in?

We are one day after a horrific attack and we are right back to Bush new about 9/11. Move along...nothing to see here.

rgambs

BS44325 said:

rgambs said:

BS44325 said:

Funny reading this. This is just like Clinton blaming bengazi on a video. Here we have charter members of the coalition of the unwilling refusing to accept that the world is burning under a foreign policy they have advocated for.

How so? I haven't seen any discussion on post 9-11 foreign policy. Everything I see here is about the lead up to the attack.
Maybe you are confused about which thread you are in?

We are one day after a horrific attack and we are right back to Bush new about 9/11. Move along...nothing to see here.

The article was published yesterday. Before the attacks.

BS44325

And let's not forget that Tenet worked for Clinton prior to Bush. That same Clinton who did so much to go after Bin Laden. His wife is now running and her foreign policy is an absolute disaster. Must. Place. Blame.

BS44325

rgambs said:

BS44325 said:

rgambs said:

BS44325 said:

Funny reading this. This is just like Clinton blaming bengazi on a video. Here we have charter members of the coalition of the unwilling refusing to accept that the world is burning under a foreign policy they have advocated for.

How so? I haven't seen any discussion on post 9-11 foreign policy. Everything I see here is about the lead up to the attack.
Maybe you are confused about which thread you are in?

We are one day after a horrific attack and we are right back to Bush new about 9/11. Move along...nothing to see here.

The article was published yesterday. Before the attacks.

The same day that Obama said ISIS was contained. These books are all about political cover for the former secretary of state and first lady. But at this point what difference does it make...

Thirty Bills Unpaid

Bentleyspop said:

This is old news.

However, for those blaming bush, you've got the wrong guy.

He is to blame for nothing as he was never aware of anything.

Blame should fall on those actually in charge...

Cheney
Rove
Rumsfeld
Powell
Etc

He truly was a mindless, helpless gerbil. A compliant puppet.

I can't help feel that much of the Obama bashing is residual guilt on the part of some that promoted Bush. They truly understand what a weakling they backed and, with egg on their face, they attempt to discredit Obama to regain some of their dignity: "Look... the guy you voted for sucks too! We're all stupid!"

josevolution

At the end of it accountability is no where to de found by any administrations be it past present or future ones ...

BS44325

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

Bentleyspop said:

This is old news.

However, for those blaming bush, you've got the wrong guy.

He is to blame for nothing as he was never aware of anything.

Blame should fall on those actually in charge...

Cheney
Rove
Rumsfeld
Powell
Etc

He truly was a mindless, helpless gerbil. A compliant puppet.

I can't help feel that much of the Obama bashing is residual guilt on the part of some that promoted Bush. They truly understand what a weakling they backed and, with egg on their face, they attempt to discredit Obama to regain some of their dignity: "Look... the guy you voted for sucks too! We're all stupid!"

I don't think invading Iraq, taking out Saddam and seeing the surge through is the sign of a weakling. The man as part of the Anbar awakening was turning enemies into allies and triggered the green revolution. The AMT can hate all they want but the man at least had a strategy for setting the middle east right. Now all we have are discarded gains and rudderless leadership masquerading as soft, liberal idealism. So no guilt here...just general feelings of disgust.

pureoc

Dick Cheney find yourself another country, to be part of!

Bentleyspop

BS44325 said:

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

Bentleyspop said:

This is old news.

However, for those blaming bush, you've got the wrong guy.

He is to blame for nothing as he was never aware of anything.

Blame should fall on those actually in charge...

Cheney
Rove
Rumsfeld
Powell
Etc

He truly was a mindless, helpless gerbil. A compliant puppet.

I can't help feel that much of the Obama bashing is residual guilt on the part of some that promoted Bush. They truly understand what a weakling they backed and, with egg on their face, they attempt to discredit Obama to regain some of their dignity: "Look... the guy you voted for sucks too! We're all stupid!"

I don't think invading Iraq, taking out Saddam and seeing the surge through is the sign of a weakling. The man as part of the Anbar awakening was turning enemies into allies and triggered the green revolution. The AMT can hate all they want but the man at least had a strategy for setting the middle east right. Now all we have are discarded gains and rudderless leadership masquerading as soft, liberal idealism. So no guilt here...just general feelings of disgust.

I'll say it again....Bush had nothing to do with anything. Invading Iraq, of which the planning started before the 2000 election, was all on Dick Cheney. He had a hard on for saddam ever since Gulf War 1.

Bush has no strategy for anything at any time.

Go Beavers

BS44325 said:

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

Bentleyspop said:

This is old news.

However, for those blaming bush, you've got the wrong guy.

He is to blame for nothing as he was never aware of anything.

Blame should fall on those actually in charge...

Cheney
Rove
Rumsfeld
Powell
Etc

He truly was a mindless, helpless gerbil. A compliant puppet.

I can't help feel that much of the Obama bashing is residual guilt on the part of some that promoted Bush. They truly understand what a weakling they backed and, with egg on their face, they attempt to discredit Obama to regain some of their dignity: "Look... the guy you voted for sucks too! We're all stupid!"

I don't think invading Iraq, taking out Saddam and seeing the surge through is the sign of a weakling. The man as part of the Anbar awakening was turning enemies into allies and triggered the green revolution. The AMT can hate all they want but the man at least had a strategy for setting the middle east right. Now all we have are discarded gains and rudderless leadership masquerading as soft, liberal idealism. So no guilt here...just general feelings of disgust.

My understanding of Bush and Co.'s "strategy" was to invade Iraq and the American's would be met with open arms and much rejoicing. They thought that soon after, American style democracy would cascade through the Middle East and all would be well. That strategy was completely irresponsible and out of touch with reality. I guess there could be another strategy that I wasn't aware of?

rgambs

Go Beavers said:

BS44325 said:

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

Bentleyspop said:

This is old news.

However, for those blaming bush, you've got the wrong guy.

He is to blame for nothing as he was never aware of anything.

Blame should fall on those actually in charge...

Cheney
Rove
Rumsfeld
Powell
Etc

He truly was a mindless, helpless gerbil. A compliant puppet.

I can't help feel that much of the Obama bashing is residual guilt on the part of some that promoted Bush. They truly understand what a weakling they backed and, with egg on their face, they attempt to discredit Obama to regain some of their dignity: "Look... the guy you voted for sucks too! We're all stupid!"

I don't think invading Iraq, taking out Saddam and seeing the surge through is the sign of a weakling. The man as part of the Anbar awakening was turning enemies into allies and triggered the green revolution. The AMT can hate all they want but the man at least had a strategy for setting the middle east right. Now all we have are discarded gains and rudderless leadership masquerading as soft, liberal idealism. So no guilt here...just general feelings of disgust.

My understanding of Bush and Co.'s "strategy" was to invade Iraq and the American's would be met with open arms and much rejoicing. They thought that soon after, American style democracy would cascade through the Middle East and all would be well. That strategy was completely irresponsible and out of touch with reality. I guess there could be another strategy that I wasn't aware of?

Yes, there was another strategy, the real one. The real strategy was to destabilize the region so that our presence would be required in perpetuity. The goal was to keep oil trading in US dollars and create a "market" for Haliburton, KBR, CACI, Titan, etc to rake in billions in no-bid, cost plus contracts that give incentive to spend as much as possible.
It was a success.

HughFreakingDillon

that regime was despicable and they all should be rotting in prison.

Amongst the Ani

Read Tenets book. He claims to have told Bush/Cheney many times that they needed a plan for an insurgency before the invasion of Iraq. We would be welcome with open arms but after a short period we would be seen as invaders. History supported his theory. Bush/Cheney discounted him and never even read the paper he wrote up on it. Now Tenet wrote that book after the fact but if true just leads me to believe Bush probably blew off the intel 9/11 would happen. In Bush's defense Tenet in his book says no one saw 9/11 coming. They received intel like this all the time and didn't put the pieces together until it was too late. I wonder why the change of story now. He was also very, very favorable to Clinton who made him director.

Bentleyspop

Amongst the Ani said:

Read Tenets book. He claims to have told Bush/Cheney many times that they needed a plan for an insurgency before the invasion of Iraq. We would be welcome with open arms but after a short period we would be seen as invaders. History supported his theory. Bush/Cheney discounted him and never even read the paper he wrote up on it. Now Tenet wrote that book after the fact but if true just leads me to believe Bush probably blew off the intel 9/11 would happen. In Bush's defense Tenet in his book says no one saw 9/11 coming. They received intel like this all the time and didn't put the pieces together until it was too late. I wonder why the change of story now. He was also very, very favorable to Clinton who made him director.

It was quite clear from the beginning that while cheney/rove had a plan to get to Baghdad they never had a plan to get out.
They expected the Iraqis to be lining the streets and greeting the Americans with flowers, candy, and hugs and to then go about living their lives as if nothing happened. They did not for one second expect an insurgency or any kind of pushback once they got to Baghdad.

polaris_x

people still think the invasion of iraq was a good thing and that the ouster of saddam was good?

sad ... no wonder douchebags like Carson and Trump can lead polls ...

every fucking problem we have with extremists starts with good ole' US foreign policy ... whether it's Iran, Iraq, Al Qaeda, ISIS or whatever else comes up ... at this point - it should be blatantly obvious that the world's biggest threats are clearly a function of the economic imperialistic policies of the US ...

HughFreakingDillon

polaris_x said:

people still think the invasion of iraq was a good thing and that the ouster of saddam was good?

sad ... no wonder douchebags like Carson and Trump can lead polls ...

every fucking problem we have with extremists starts with good ole' US foreign policy ... whether it's Iran, Iraq, Al Qaeda, ISIS or whatever else comes up ... at this point - it should be blatantly obvious that the world's biggest threats are clearly a function of the economic imperialistic policies of the US ...

can you imagine what the US would do if Iraq bombed and killed 1,000,000 of their civilians and hung their president in a backroom and presenting it as liberating them?

World War 3, 4, and 5 all rolled into one.

mickeyrat

BS44325 said:

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

Bentleyspop said:

This is old news.

However, for those blaming bush, you've got the wrong guy.

He is to blame for nothing as he was never aware of anything.

Blame should fall on those actually in charge...

Cheney
Rove
Rumsfeld
Powell
Etc

He truly was a mindless, helpless gerbil. A compliant puppet.

I can't help feel that much of the Obama bashing is residual guilt on the part of some that promoted Bush. They truly understand what a weakling they backed and, with egg on their face, they attempt to discredit Obama to regain some of their dignity: "Look... the guy you voted for sucks too! We're all stupid!"

I don't think invading Iraq, taking out Saddam and seeing the surge through is the sign of a weakling. The man as part of the Anbar awakening was turning enemies into allies and triggered the green revolution. The AMT can hate all they want but the man at least had a strategy for setting the middle east right. Now all we have are discarded gains and rudderless leadership masquerading as soft, liberal idealism. So no guilt here...just general feelings of disgust.

Whats this we shit? Arent you canadian? There aint we neighbor.

Drowned Out

polaris_x said:

people still think the invasion of iraq was a good thing and that the ouster of saddam was good?

sad ... no wonder douchebags like Carson and Trump can lead polls ...

every fucking problem we have with extremists starts with good ole' US foreign policy ... whether it's Iran, Iraq, Al Qaeda, ISIS or whatever else comes up ... at this point - it should be blatantly obvious that the world's biggest threats are clearly a function of the economic imperialistic policies of the US ...

Yes......underneath the screams for the obliteration of ISIS, the goal of regime change in Syria remains unchanged....Intentionally repeating the situation in Iraq. Another power vacuum. resulting in a salafist principality (caliphate)...this has been the openly acknowledged US/allied plan for Syria all along.... But in 10 years, when things have continued to devolve, we'll be bickering about which former POTUS is to blame for the current 'quagmire', how we never saw this coming, or how we did, but just didn't bomb them long enough....gearing up for war against the latest enemy of freedom. How people fail to see the patterns, how they are so easily propagandized to support military actions without asking 'what happens after that?', how resistant they are to trying different approaches, is beyond me. Worse are the people who see the patterns yet still think we have a divine right to 'set the Middle East right' despite the suffering our righteousness inflicts directly in those nations, and via 'blowback' against our own people.

callen

Yea

polaris_x said:

people still think the invasion of iraq was a good thing and that the ouster of saddam was good?

sad ... no wonder douchebags like Carson and Trump can lead polls ...

every fucking problem we have with extremists starts with good ole' US foreign policy ... whether it's Iran, Iraq, Al Qaeda, ISIS or whatever else comes up ... at this point - it should be blatantly obvious that the world's biggest threats are clearly a function of the economic imperialistic policies of the US ...

So pretty clear I fucking hate war mongers but US not entirely responsible. Made it easier to recruit for sure.

Blame humans instinctual needs to be a member of a tribe and insecurities of having a somewhat of a conscience mind and being scared to death trying to figure out "why". Fuck gods and religion.

polaris_x

callen said:

Yea

So pretty clear I fucking hate war mongers but US not entirely responsible. Made it easier to recruit for sure.

Blame humans instinctual needs to be a member of a tribe and insecurities of having a somewhat of a conscience mind and being scared to death trying to figure out "why". Fuck gods and religion.

for sure there are complicit partners politically but the military industrial complex, war profiteering and oil has had the most influence on US foreign policy ... if you look at the "coalition of the willing" for iraq ... it's pretty much the US ... if you look at who's fucking around in the middle east the most - it's primarily the US ...

polaris_x

Drowned Out said:

Yes......underneath the screams for the obliteration of ISIS, the goal of regime change in Syria remains unchanged....Intentionally repeating the situation in Iraq. Another power vacuum. resulting in a salafist principality (caliphate)...this has been the openly acknowledged US/allied plan for Syria all along.... But in 10 years, when things have continued to devolve, we'll be bickering about which former POTUS is to blame for the current 'quagmire', how we never saw this coming, or how we did, but just didn't bomb them long enough....gearing up for war against the latest enemy of freedom. How people fail to see the patterns, how they are so easily propagandized to support military actions without asking 'what happens after that?', how resistant they are to trying different approaches, is beyond me. Worse are the people who see the patterns yet still think we have a divine right to 'set the Middle East right' despite the suffering our righteousness inflicts directly in those nations, and via 'blowback' against our own people.

and all it takes is marching out a vet at football games and parades to make sure the people continue to stay blind to what these men and women are sent overseas to do and for what reasons ...

mickeyrat

polaris_x said:

callen said:

Yea

So pretty clear I fucking hate war mongers but US not entirely responsible. Made it easier to recruit for sure.

Blame humans instinctual needs to be a member of a tribe and insecurities of having a somewhat of a conscience mind and being scared to death trying to figure out "why". Fuck gods and religion.

for sure there are complicit partners politically but the military industrial complex, war profiteering and oil has had the most influence on US foreign policy ... if you look at the "coalition of the willing" for iraq ... it's pretty much the US ... if you look at who's fucking around in the middle east the most - it's primarily the US ...

How many of the oil companies there are solely US based and owned companies?