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CIA Documents Show 9/11 Bin Laden Warnings Ignored

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[FONT=arial, sans-serif]"The 100-plus CIA documents newly declassified and published Tuesday have exclusive information about drones, the Bush administration's downplaying of the terrorist threat and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, among other matters. But perhaps the material most at odds with anything we know is that the CIA thinks it did a terrific job with pre- and post-9/11 information-sharing, counterterrorism practicing and intelligence coordination. Publicly the agency's post-9/11 narrative is that it has completely reformed. The documents reveal that that just isn't so...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down, including the Bush response to warnings about Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF935kBcKNY
So maybe the saying that Bush was warned about the 9/11 attacks isnt a "conspiracy theory"after all.. And yet he ran on that he "protected us"? More like one of the biggest security failures ever done by our intelligence community and the executive.. History will prove that Bush is one of the worst presidents ever.

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Terrorism is just a tool for justifying brash foreign policy.
 
nobody was warned about Al Qaeda flying 4 planes into the WTC, Pentagon, and White House on 9-11-01.

there were only vague threats of an impending attack
 
This is only corroborating old news. Bush security adviser Clark revealed the curious fact that Bush had no interest in Bin Laden and went as far as to ban the mention of his name before 911.
The real story is that Republicans are not likely to stop terror attacks when they benefit their agenda like 911 did. Bush wanted to get Saddam and 911 gave him the freedom to do it.
Romney wants things too, will he let Alqueada help him too? I worry about that all the time.
 
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"But I don't remember the al Qaeda cells as
being something that we were told we needed to do something
about."

No one told the President and his people what they should do.

They basically said no one lead them.

Some leader.
 
"Warnings" were not denied as existing, but rather the interpretation regarding the warnings being "ignored" (or also, not shared with other organizations). If you recall some years back during and after the 9/11 Commission, we had much play in the media regarding the lack of communication between various organizations and the resulting orientation of the administration toward those threats.
 
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So maybe the saying that Bush was warned about the 9/11 attacks isnt a "conspiracy theory"after all.. And yet he ran on that he "protected us"? More like one of the biggest security failures ever done by our intelligence community and the executive.. History will prove that Bush is one of the worst presidents ever.

No one suggested that "Bush was warned" was a conspiracy theory. The conspiracy theory is the idiotic notion that he purposefully allowed for it to happen, specifically for some ulterior political motivations. It also is worthless to know "Bush was warned" without context of how common similar level of threats had been given to Bush, Clinton, and Presidents in the past. We don't mobilize our entire intelligence community over every single solitary terrorist threat out there because it's inefficient and largely futile to do so.
 
I'd like to see ANY evidence that Bush was warned about a terrorist attack in NYC on 9-11-01 using passenger planes.
 
nobody was warned about Al Qaeda flying 4 planes into the WTC, Pentagon, and White House on 9-11-01.

there were only vague threats of an impending attack

Those warning were not pretty "vauge".
Pretty much stated they are already here. They are going to attack in NYC and DC. Expects upcoming attacks in the coming days.
 
Those warning were not pretty "vauge".
Pretty much stated they are already here. They are going to attack in NYC and DC. Expects upcoming attacks in the coming days.

what kind of attack?

bomb? plane? anthrax? chemical weapon?

what target specifically?

none of those questions were answered. NYC is a damn big city.
 
what kind of attack?

bomb? plane? anthrax? chemical weapon?

what target specifically?

none of those questions were answered. NYC is a damn big city.

Yeah, as much as I despise Bush, I can in no way fault him 9-11. As far as teh information being actionable, yes, the warnings were vague. Also, most warnings, even those considered highly credible, end up never amounting to anything. But I realize it is tempting to play the 20-20 hindsight game. I will sure as hell blame Bush for his response to 9-11, but I won't put the blame for the attack on him.
 
what kind of attack?

bomb? plane? anthrax? chemical weapon?

what target specifically?

none of those questions were answered. NYC is a damn big city.

Well usually when you have intelligence that says what cities the attacks are going to happen at i think you would not ignore those warning and take action. Im not in anyway blaming Bush for 9/11 im simply stating the warnings were there and he did not act and simply ignored them.
 

You, sir, are correct. They didn't have the date.
The WTC, Pentigon &WH, were given as a possible target.
Hijacking a plane & useing it as a guided missal was mentioned as a possibe plan of attack. :peace

nobody was warned about Al Qaeda flying 4 planes into the WTC, Pentagon, and White House on 9-11-01.

there were only vague threats of an impending attack
 

You, sir, are correct. They didn't have the date.
The WTC, Pentigon &WH, were given as a possible target.
Hijacking a plane & useing it as a guided missal was mentioned as a possibe plan of attack. :peace

id like to see evidence of all of this.
 
Yet, dozens of threats against targets within the US, including some that specifically mention targets in New York City and Washington DC (even including the World Trade Center and the Pentagon) were also received over the years by our government.

• August 6, 2001 – President Bush receives memo titled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US.” The memo reads in part: “bin Laden wanted to hijack US aircraft to gain the release” of Oman Abdul Rahman and others” and tells of “suspicious activity in the US consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.”

• August 21, 2001 – Jordanian inmate Walik Arkeh warns the FBI of an impending terrorist attack. He had befriended three men in a British jail in 2000-2001, each of whom had connections to UBL and al Qaeda and were indicted co-conspirators for the August 1998 US embassy bombings. His warning included “something big is going to happen in New York City” and that the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center is “unfinished business.” He also mentioned targets in Washington, DC but he did not know the date or method of the attacks. Arkeh is later deported to Jordan.

More at Link..... :peace

Other Warnings about Terrorism Prior to 9/11
id like to see evidence of all of this.
 
Those warning were not pretty "vauge".
Pretty much stated they are already here. They are going to attack in NYC and DC. Expects upcoming attacks in the coming days.

You mean vague. Vauge is the site owner :p
 
nobody was warned about Al Qaeda flying 4 planes into the WTC, Pentagon, and White House on 9-11-01.

there were only vague threats of an impending attack

I really doubt anything linked to Bin Laden was a "vague" threat. It's not like the guy was a white nationalist or some silly US terrorist blowing up a few abortion clinics in the middle of the night.
 
No one suggested that "Bush was warned" was a conspiracy theory. The conspiracy theory is the idiotic notion that he purposefully allowed for it to happen, specifically for some ulterior political motivations. It also is worthless to know "Bush was warned" without context of how common similar level of threats had been given to Bush, Clinton, and Presidents in the past. We don't mobilize our entire intelligence community over every single solitary terrorist threat out there because it's inefficient and largely futile to do so.


Right. Instead you give the Medal of Freedom to the man who bungled all the warnings before 911 and THEN bungled the existance of WMD's in Iraq!
Can you even begin to see why I despise that man? WTF did Tenet do right? Or was it that he did it all for Bush the reason for the medal?
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Well usually when you have intelligence that says what cities the attacks are going to happen at i think you would not ignore those warning and take action. Im not in anyway blaming Bush for 9/11 im simply stating the warnings were there and he did not act and simply ignored them.

why are you going after Clinton? I mean cmon.. Clinton had him, but had no guts to finish OBL off... but its Clinton... hes a rockstar and Libs love Rockstars...so why are you chastizing Clinton?
 
Those warning were not pretty "vauge".
Pretty much stated they are already here. They are going to attack in NYC and DC. Expects upcoming attacks in the coming days.

So you're a truther.
 
why are you going after Clinton? I mean cmon.. Clinton had him, but had no guts to finish OBL off... but its Clinton... hes a rockstar and Libs love Rockstars...so why are you chastizing Clinton?

You do realize the video goes after Clinton....
 
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