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To: RMF who wrote (801284)	8/14/2014 3:11:03 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) of 1576155

>> Then how come Bush just IGNORED his intelligence community when they came to him and said Al Qeada may very well try to use "Commercial Airliners" to attack us? He didn't ignore it; there just wasn't anything to be done with that information. He could have told airports and airlines to "be careful" I suppose, but that would not have had any effect at all. As they say, it wasn't "actionable intelligence." There was no infrastructure AT ALL to deal with such a situation. Suppose he had been told there were plans to poison a water supply? Bomb a nuclear plant? Cause a blackout? There was really nothing to have done about any of these things unless you had more information, which they didn't have. Clinton had the same information: "We heard of the idea of planes as weapons, but I don't recall being presented with any specific threat information about an attack of this nature, or highlighting this threat, or indicating it was more likely than any other" - Sandy Berger It is easy, today, to realize what could happen -- we all watched it. But on 9/10/01, someone using airplanes as weapons had no real meaning to anyone. >> And how did he do when they told him we were actually being ATTACKED? He just sat in that classroom and read another story to those kids. This is just not a factual claim. He was in a room full of kids and could hardly have jumped up and started barking orders. It clearly took him a few minutes to collect his thoughts about how to handle it. Faulting him for that is silly given the extreme competence with which he handled the entire situation. It is more a product of media freak out than being any sign of "incompetence". What do you think Clinton would have done? Jumped up and run out in a panic? I doubt it.

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