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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (255953)	5/16/2002 10:46:11 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Cummings: Check out the new "Bush Knew" bumper sticker at www.mediawhoresonline.com.

To: greenspirit who wrote (255953)	5/16/2002 10:52:16 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Salon.com Ignores Trent Lott Threats Revelation of Bush 9/11 Foreknowledge "Stunning" Bush Knew. And He Lied. The 9/11 coverup First the White House ignored warnings about al-Qaida. Then it tried to stop Congress from getting the truth. Now we know why. Joe Conason Incompetence, rather than conspiracy, remains the most plausible explanation for the Bush administration's failure to prevent the terrorist atrocities of Sept. 11, 2001. But "conspiracy" is beginning to look like a plausible description of the administration's effort to conceal its tragic errors. For the first time in eight months, angry citizens are asking why they have suddenly learned what George W. Bush knew all along: That weeks before the event, the CIA had warned the president and other top officials of an active plot by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida operatives to seize civilian aircraft. That during the same period, FBI special agents in Phoenix and Minnesota had warned their own agency of activity by suspected al-Qaida operatives at U.S. flight schools. That somehow nobody at the FBI, the CIA, the National Security Council or any other government intelligence agency managed to connect those dots until after the disaster. Evidently Bush and his associates wanted to ensure that nobody else connected the dots, because they point directly to the White House. So determined were they to prevent the emergence of such embarrassing facts that when the Democrats took control of the Senate, Vice President Dick Cheney tried to intimidate Majority Leader Tom Daschle from undertaking a serious investigation of the Sept. 11 catastrophe. Both Newsweek and the Washington Post reported last January that Cheney called Daschle to warn against the investigation. According to those reports, Cheney was particularly disturbed by the prospect of public hearings and suggested that such an inquiry would be cast as partisan interference with the "war on terrorism." The president later echoed Cheney's bluster, in milder terms, at a breakfast with congressional leaders. If the military campaign in Afghanistan ever provided a pretext for such obnoxious and self-serving conduct, it no longer does. In the months since those pleas and threats were issued, the White House and its political surrogates have repeatedly sought to exploit the campaign against terrorism for cheap gain. They can't sell pictures of the commander in chief on Air Force One and then demand immunity from public scrutiny. Besides, the bipartisan consensus has suddenly turned sour, with conservative Republicans as bemused and troubled as Democrats over the latest revelations. mediawhoresonline.com

To: greenspirit who wrote (255953)	5/16/2002 11:03:50 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Respond to of 769670

US agents told: Back off bin Ladens US special agents were told to back off the bin Laden family and the Saudi royals soon after George Bush became president, although that has all changed since September 11, it was reported today. And the BBC2's Newsnight program also said the younger George Bush made his first million 20 years ago with an oil company partly funded by the chief US representative of Salem bin Laden, Osama's brother, who took over as head of the family after his father Mohammed's death in a plane crash in 1968. The program said it had secret documents from the FBI investigation into the terror attacks on New York and Washington which showed that despite the myth that Osama is the black sheep of the family, at least two other American-based members of it are suspected of links with a possible terrorist organisation. The program said it had obtained evidence that the FBI was on the trail of bin Laden family members living in the US after, and even before, September 11. A document showed that special agents from the Washington field office were investigating Abdullah, a close relative of Osama, because of his relationship with the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), a suspected terrorist organisation, it said. old.smh.com.au