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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (7645)	3/28/2004 2:26:14 AM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Spike in chatter leads to very little until 911. "...In the spring and summer of 2001, the spike in intelligence information was even greater then the one in 2001. [I think he meant 1999] It is a fact that the CIA's information focused on American interests in Saudi Arabia and Israel, in particular, but we now know that the possibility of an attack on the United States was continually mentioned, especially by Clarke. This time, however, nothing like the alert directed from the top resulted, even though the American experience had been further embittered by the attack on the USS Cole in the fall of 2000. There were warnings and alerts to airlines and embassies and military installations, to be sure, but in context they had the impact of boilerplate bureaucracy; agency heads were not receiving the continuous inspiration of daily White House direction to shake every tree in the forest. In retrospect, Clarke believes this mattered. Only politics can explain the Bush administration's refusal to agree. This is not, moreover, an idle exercise involving only the past; there remain serious arguments about whether cost and business pressure is preventing the country from doing all it should to monitor air cargo, shipping, and chemical and nuclear plants, even in a post-9/11 atmosphere...." boston.com