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To: Sig who wrote (127530)	3/28/2004 2:08:19 AM
From: boris_a	Respond to of 281500

The way it could have been -Sept 7th 2001 And the way it was: "President Bush and Vice President Cheney's counterterrorism task force, which was created in May, never convened one single meeting. The President himself admitted that "I didn't feel the sense of urgency" about terrorism before 9/11. [Source: Washington Post, 1/20/02]" Bush: "--" Cheney: "--" Isn't it remarkable to create a task force to do ... nothing? But that's why leaders lead, I suppose. The purpose of the task force was counterterrorism coordination of different services (CIA, FBI ...): From the 9/11 investigation transcripts: washingtonpost.com ".... BEN-VENISTE: Now, with respect to what you were told -- you were the principal coordinator for counterterrorism for the chief executive flowing up and down through you, correct? CLARKE: Yes, sir. BEN-VENISTE: Did you know that the two individuals who had been identified as Al Qaida had entered the United States and were presently thought to be in the country? CLARKE: I was not informed of that, nor were senior levels of the FBI. BEN-VENISTE: Had you known that these individuals were in the country, what steps, with the benefit of hindsight, but informed hindsight, would you have taken, given the level of threat? CLARKE: To put the answer in context, I had been saying to the FBI and to the other federal law enforcement agencies and to the CIA that because of this intelligence that something was about to happen that they should lower their threshold of reporting, that they should tell us anything that looked the slightest bit unusual. In retrospect, having said that over and over again to them, for them to have had this information somewhere in the FBI and not told to me, I still find absolutely incomprehensible." ...." So we learn that the same VP Cheney, the guy with the special office for sexing-up WMD intel, was the boss of the "counterterrorism task force" to coordinate information flow.