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To: i-node who wrote (900575)	11/13/2015 4:59:33 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1577867

Totally useless information. For someone obsessing about Benghazi you sure don't seem to give a shit about an event that has since changed the world, thanks to Bush and his cohorts. Why is that? “To me it remains incomprehensible still. I mean, how is it that you could warn senior people so many times and nothing actually happened? It’s kind of like The Twilight Zone.” Remarkably, in her memoir, Condi Rice writes of the July 10 warnings: “My recollection of the meeting is not very crisp because we were discussing the threat every day.” Having raised threat levels for U.S. personnel overseas, she adds: “I thought we were doing what needed to be done.” (When I asked whether she had any further response to the comments that Tenet, Black and others made to me, her chief of staff said she stands by the account in her memoir.) Inexplicably, although Tenet brought up this meeting in his closed-door testimony before the 9/11 Commission, it was never mentioned in the committee’s final report. And there was one more chilling warning to come. At the end of July, Tenet and his deputies gathered in the director’s conference room at CIA headquarters. “We were just thinking about all of this and trying to figure out how this attack might occur,” he recalls. “And I'll never forget this until the day I die. Rich Blee looked at everybody and said, ‘They're coming here.’ And the silence that followed was deafening. You could feel the oxygen come out of the room. ‘They're coming here.’” Al

To: i-node who wrote (900575)	11/13/2015 5:57:21 PM
From: combjelly	2 Recommendations Recommended By Alighieri bentway Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1577867

We know. Bush was given intelligence that said, "There's gonna be an attack. We don't know when, or where, or how, but we know there is." Totally useless information. A prudent person would step up security instead of just sitting on their hands. The fact of the matter is they did not change the status quo one iota because of this. No increase in intelligence gathering, no heightening of security, nothing. No way of knowing if that would have done anything, but they did nothing beyond what Clinton had put into place. We even know why. The Bush administration thought that the only real danger from terrorism is when it is state sponsored. They didn't want to concern themselves with the little guys, that was Clinton's obsession. They wanted someone they could invade.

To: i-node who wrote (900575)	11/13/2015 7:38:27 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577867

Report: Detailed Warnings About 9/11 Were Ignored 'I THINK THEY WERE MENTALLY STUCK' By Michael Harthorne, Newser Staff newser.com Posted Nov 13, 2015 3:03 PM CST (NEWSER) – “It was very evident that we were going to be struck, we were gonna be struck hard, and lots of Americans were going to die,” former CIA counterterrorism chief Cofer Black recalls about the months before 9/11. Politico has an exclusive look from Chris Whipple into how the Bush administration ignored multiple detailed warnings from the CIA in the lead-up to the worst terrorist attack in US history. Whipple, along with Jules and Gedeon Naudet, interviewed 12 former CIA directors for their documentaryThe Spymasters, which airs later this month on Showtime. The conversations cover everything from torture to lethal drone strikes to the murky world of assassinations, and, of course, what was done—what could have been done—to prevent 9/11. Whipple writes that the warnings delivered to the Bush administration were more specific than previously known. Former CIA director George Tenet says he and Black pitched a plan to the Bush team in the spring of 2001 that would have launched a paramilitary operation in Afghanistan to neutralize al-Qaeda. The administration wasn't interested. Black says the Bush team "just didn't get" it. "I think they were mentally stuck," he says. "They were used to terrorists being Euro-lefties—they drink champagne by night, blow things up during the day." In July, they met with Condoleezza Rice and emphatically warned her the country needed "to go on a wartime footing" immediately. Again nothing happened. "*How is it that you could warn senior people so many times and nothing actually happened?*" Black says. "It’s kind of like the Twilight Zone.” Read the full story here.