9/11 Commission WAS Informed of Tenet Briefing
The 9/11 Commissioners have reacted to Bob Woodward's disclosure that CIA director George Tenet briefed Condie Rice about the imminent attack by saying "no one told us!"
Uh, turns out someone did, but they didn't mention it in the 9/11 Commission Report. As McClatchy Newspapers puts it:
"The independent Sept. 11, 2001, commission was given the same “scary” briefing about an imminent al Qaida attack on a U.S. target that was presented to the White House two months before the attacks, but failed to disclose the warning in its 428-page report.
Former CIA Director George Tenet presented the briefing to commission member Richard Ben Veniste and executive director Philip Zelikow in secret testimony at CIA headquarters on Jan. 28, 2004, said three former senior agency officials.
Tenet raised the matter himself, displayed slides from a Power Point presentation that he and other officials had given to then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice on July 10, 2001, and offered to testify on the matter in public if the commission asked him to, they said.
In the briefing, Tenet warned "in very strong terms" that intelligence from a variety of sources indicated that Osama bin Laden's terrorist organization was planning an attack on a U.S. target in the near future, but didn't provide specifics about the exact timing or nature of a possible attack, or about whether it would take place in the United States or overseas, said the former senior intelligence officials, all of whom requested anonymity because Tenet’s presentation was classified.
However, said one of the officials, "the briefing was intended to 'connect the dots' contained in other intelligence reports and paint a very clear picture of the threat posed by bin Laden."
The 9/11 Commission needs a new excuse for failing to document Tenet's presentation to the White House. Let's see . . . "the dog ate our homework"?
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So wait a second...
Something else was left out of the report, and the Commissioner's lied about it? Get outta town.
That's NEVER happened.
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"It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying ‘Go find me a way to do this."
Let me ask this question...
If the CIA was involved in 9/11 at all, would George Tenet have known about it?
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"It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying ‘Go find me a way to do this."
You Know...
WAKE THE FUDGE UP AMERICA!!!
Able Danger, Tenet Warning, the $100,000 ISI Wire Transfer, Building 7, etc... how many other things would you like the Commissioners to lie about before you figure out there's a "Cover-Up" surrounding the attacks of 9/11?!?!?!?!?!?
WHAT DOES IT TAKE?!?
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"It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying ‘Go find me a way to do this."
A financial incentive, of
A financial incentive, of course.
Both sad...
And true.
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"It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying ‘Go find me a way to do this."
Check this out! Katie Couric THIS WEEK describes Condi's memory
Katie on Condi
(CBS)
Hi, everyone.
I’ve been working this week on a profile of Condoleezza Rice for Sunday’s 60 Minutes.
This is a woman who is “scary smart” – so intelligent, it’s scary. She seems to have a photographic memory. She can tick off events and dates in a way that made my head spin. She’s also an astute, passionate student of history -- and history is what is giving her enormous confidence and comfort in the crafting of the Bush Administration’s foreign policy.
During our interview, she cited the Civil War, the Cold War, and other dark days in international history to demonstrate that very trying times are often worth the end result.
I think I have a better understanding of her “foreign policy psyche” from hearing about her childhood experiences. She grew up in the heart of the segregated south in Birmingham, Alabama, and literally felt the repercussions of the church bombing in September 1963. Two miles away, she felt her house shake from the blast. Four young girls were killed, including one who had been a playmate of hers. You get the distinct sense that she understands and appreciates the philosophy of terror -- and feels for the unwitting victims of a twisted political agenda that targets the innocent.
Condi Rice is an eternal optimist. She believes that good will triumph over evil, and feels strongly that other countries deserve the same rights that we have. And she believes it’s the role of the United States to stand beside them and support them.
In one of our most intense exchanges, she compared people who say that certain countries and peoples were not equipped to handle democracy to those who discounted and dismissed African Americans before the Civil Rights movement fully took hold.
She’s much warmer, more “girly” and fun than the disciplined, controlled stateswoman you see on the world stage. She doesn’t have a lot of free time, but she preserves Sunday afternoons as “her time.” She likes to play tennis, and is learning how to play golf – she says she likes it and is getting good at “reading the greens.”
And then there’s her music. She loves playing the piano -- it really is “instrumental” in her life. She describes playing music as “transporting” – it’s the only time her brain isn’t focused on world events, because it requires so much to focus on music. If you take your eye off the notes, you can muck it up.
And Condi Rice doesn’t like to muck anything up.
oh, gush... Anyone got a
oh, gush...
Anyone got a mop?
Point is, she didn't
Point is, she didn't "forget" the July briefing. That bitch!
CONDI "SOCIOPATH" RICE
This woman is so comfortable with lying. It is quite frightening. She is very good at it. She is a true sociopath.
Screwing Able Danger's Schaffer
From Antiwar.com
http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGB7IOX5SSE.html
Compartmentalization
Would everyone in the CIA have been staunchly loyal to Tenet?
How many in the CIA could have been involved in some way without knowing the end result or full purpose of their involvement?
If the planning and execution involved some from the military, some from the arms/security/oil industries, some from PNAC (Mossad connections implied here), some from the FBI and some from the CIA would they not be an organizationed entity unto themselves with no need for Tenet and others in the CIA who reported suspicious communications and activities to Tenet?
Creating the legends that we see as the "jihadist histories" of the hijackers is something that the CIA does.
So as far as that part of it, the CIA would have been involved. But were the CIA personnel who engineered those histories necessarily cognizant of how those histories would eventually come into play? Probably not.
Once the alleged hijackers entered the US they were in the FBI's jurisdiction. The FBI protected them via orders from the top levels of government...Rice? Bush? Cheney?
The hijackers' movements in the US were tracked and probably guided by AbleDanger, a military intelligence outfit.
Since many of the names used by alleged hijackers have been reported to belong to people who are alive, were the "hijackers" really the same guys who the CIA created histories for or were the "hijackers" just inserted into those histories by AbleDanger? The "hijackers" over here, their US histories, were not a product of CIA reporting so it looks like elements of the military took the CIA histories and attached their own patsies to those earlier histories. The people attached to those earlier histories did not act in a manner consistent with their "jihadi" histories. They had to be made more visible over here. That disconnect is important. Especially knowing that many of the people who, over here, were now creating US histories at flight schools, strip clubs, renting small planes, paying for rental cars with credit cards and generally running around leaving paper trails of themselves were ALSO found to have received training at secure military bases in the US.
It's pretty clear that their connections to the US military were not supposed to be known...but like they say...it's hard to keep everything secret in an operation like 9/11.
Which reminds me...the next time somebody claims that 9/11 couldn't have been an inside job because it would impossible to keep it all secret...it wasn't all kept secret.
All the hard evidence the truth movement has gathered is proof that it wasn't all kept secret.
WTC 7's freefall collapse wasn't kept secret.
Silverstein's words...not kept secret.
"Huge Explosions" from countless witnesses...not kept secret.
Seismic spikes 14 and 16 seconds before each plane's impact...not kept secret.
Molten metal...not kept secret.
etc, etc.
Google "hub and wheel
Google "hub and wheel conspircay" or "spoke and wheel conspircay" and you'll find outy all about compartmentalization.
Besides, black ops operators and congressmen take an entrance exam that screens them out for snitiching it's called a control file --
http://gazpachot.blogspot.com/2006/06/ignorance-is-bliss.html
"essentially, a control file is an intelligence dossier that contains information you don't want the public to know about you. It is used as a form of blackmail to keep potentially threatening individuals in line, or to coerce key individuals to take actions they normally would not. You've seen it in movies. The scene where the envelope with damning photos is thrown on the desk of some boat rocker. There is speculation that control files are used extensively in higher business and government circles to ensure that prevailing agendas are pushed ahead without resistance. Monica Lewinsky, for example, would have made a nice fat control file for Bill Clinton at a time when he was most threatening to his adversaries. A little digging around on google will turn up the notion that there are huge data bases of these files linking powerful people to sex scandals (pedophilia and kept sex slaves in particular) and other unseemly activities. Other sources indicate that there is a control file kept for every American citizen. Who knows."
jhf
Okay... so, let me see if I got this straight.
Well that answers an earlier question I posed, that being, why would Tenet share info with Woodward that would come back to bite him? According to this report, Tenet wasn't concerned because he HAD disclosed the details of this meeting, as he was obliged to do.
So what does this say about Condi? What about these comments she's been making:
"What I am quite certain of is that I would remember if I was told, as this account apparently says, that there was about to be an attack in the United States, and the idea that I would somehow have ignored that I find incomprehensible," Rice said.
"I don't know that this meeting took place, but what I really don't know, what I'm quite certain of, is that it was not a meeting in which I was told there was an impending attack and I refused to respond," Rice said.
Rice referred to the session as "the supposed meeting" and noted that it is not part of the independent Sept. 11 Commission's report.
"I remember that George was very worried and he expressed that," Rice told reporters. "We were all very worried because the threat reporting was quite intense. The problem was that it was also quite nebulous."
"It kind of doesn't ring true that you have to shock me into something I was very involved in," Rice said.
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So what the hell is Condi talking about?
George Tenet...
Is NOT going to be the "Fall Guy" for 9/11.
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"It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying ‘Go find me a way to do this."
Doublespeak Extraordinaire
I need to see Rice's job description. Really, it must include 'doublespeak and doublethink extraordinaire' in the list of requirements.
Let's have a look:
"What I am quite certain of is that I would remember if I was told, as this account apparently says, that there was about to be an attack in the United States, and the idea that I would somehow have ignored that I find incomprehensible," Rice said.
- Avoidance. No answer to the likely question here. She is deflecting by speaking about her opinion of what would happen in such a situation.
"I don't know that this meeting took place, but what I really don't know, what I'm quite certain of, is that it was not a meeting in which I was told there was an impending attack and I refused to respond," Rice said.
- Meanwhile, she thinks a response would include a dismissal of the evidence and general apathy toward the threat assessment. Of course, she's technically right. She responded by not responding.
Rice referred to the session as "the supposed meeting" and noted that it is not part of the independent Sept. 11 Commission's report.
- Yep, doublethink. The Zelikow Commission must identify an event for it to be a real event. It sure is fortunate for the Casa Blanca folks that the Z man was attending to the 'full and complete' rendition of the facts therein.
"I remember that George was very worried and he expressed that," Rice told reporters. "We were all very worried because the threat reporting was quite intense. The problem was that it was also quite nebulous."
- Here's an inadvertent admission that they were incompetent. We can't hear that too often. Let's take them at their word for it and issue the pink slips post haste.
"It kind of doesn't ring true that you have to shock me into something I was very involved in," Rice said.
- Not shocked, eh? I suppose the only shock she did experience was the idea that the compartmentalization had failed to isolate the troublesome do-gooders like Tenet.
All statements are true so long as you play the weasel word 'depends what the definition of "is" is' game.
My favorite Condi "doublespeak"
This one takes the cake... and eats it too!
"I don't know that this meeting took place, but what I really don't know, what I'm quite certain of..."
WTF!?!?
It's one thing to not know something, but to REALLY not know something. Well, that's a special kind of... uh... not, knowing... ah... ya know?
Torture
like this, of the English language, should be illegal.
But I guess that wouldn't stop her now, would it?
HAHA
awesome!
Sometimes She is Very Clear.
"We need a common enemy to unite us." - Condoleezza Rice, March 2000
Thats why Ashcroft stopped flying commercial flights
This may be substantiation of the warning mentioned in loose change about Ashcroft changing his habits.
Design A Branding Iron For Zelikow Competition
Okay all you designers out there how about submitting a branding iron design so that when all the facts are out, a select group of individuals can be given the job of branding and searing a special ,one of a kind ,pattern into the buttocks of Philip Zelikow and company.
Different brand designs can be submitted for officials of different branches of government responsible for the whole bloodsucking mess we have been forced to wittness.
The brandings and searings should be broadcast on the msm to forever cast into the minds of the public the consequences of murder and lying on a vast scale that could not possibly have been forseen.
It's good
but it needs to be MUCH BIGGER! Also, extend it towards the crotch.
I made it bigger but this
I made it bigger but this fixed column theme cut it off at the "OW"
A top submission! imgstacke
Anybody else? Can someone give me the html formula that works to post a pic. I keep messing it up.
its just standard html..
its just standard html.. here is an example, be sure to replace the square brackets with angled brackets:
[img src="http://www.myfreeimagehost.com/coolpic.jpg"]
Kow brand; seariously
Sad thing is that is
Sad thing is that is probably being done to some innocent in some secret prison, in god knows where... In Our Name...
Bulleyes!
Love It!
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"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and
hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." Mark Twain
Oh Condi!!!!
You got some 'splaining to do!
Obfuscation
Just more bullshit to confuse the issue. Hey look over there. I think we should borrow the guillotine the French used when they got rid of there Royalty.
As i understand it, Al Qaeda
As i understand it, Al Qaeda is essentially an asset of the CIA, so it's not surprising that Tenet had some premonitions about what part they were to play, leading up to 9/11.
It seems to me that the point of these 'warnings' stories is simply to remind people who to blame for the attacks. There must be more evidence of Al Qaeda involvement coming, because so far, there's not much! they had more than this on Oswald!
Two parts of the McClatchy newspapers article
suggest who deleted the crucial info...
"Ben-Veniste confirmed to McClatchy Newspapers that Tenet outlined for the 9/11 commission the July 10 briefing to Rice in secret testimony in January 2004. He referred questions about why the commission omitted any mention of the briefing in its report to Zelikow, the report's main author. Zelikow didn't respond to e-mail and telephone queries from McClatchy Newspapers. "
"Ben-Veniste said the commission was never told that Rice had brushed off the warning. According to Tenet, he said, Rice "understood the level of urgency he was communicating."
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/15662785.htm
Earthquake over at Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/10/3/04418/8102
I see a lot of LIHOP going on in that thread...
If only i hadn't been banned three times or i'd comment!
Red Herring
The threads are shredding. This whole business about Bin Laden planning to attack is a red herring. I thought it was common knowledge 9/11 was MIHOP, not LIHOP.
Why we still pokin' a fork into that over done pig? They should all be held accountable. As Henry the IIX would say.
"Off with their heads"!
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"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." Mark Twain