States of denial
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
10/06/06
Bob Woodward's revelation that Condoleezza Rice was warned by George Tenet and two other top CIA officials, on July 10, 2001, that a terrorist attack on the U.S. was imminent continues to reverberate -- auguring potentially devastating consequences for the Bush White House. While Rice initially denied it, her spokesman confirmed that a meeting took place on that date, although Rice continues to plead a memory lapse. And as the news that Rice wasn't the only one privy to this briefing leaks out, a veritable epidemic of amnesia seems to be breaking out in Washington. Less than two months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft stopped taking commercial domestic flights, and started chartering government jets for all his travels. Now why was that? In the wake of the attacks, so-called 'conspiracy theorists' immediately glommed on to this information and hailed it as evidence that 9/11 was 'an inside job.' Now we know that the conspiracy theorists were on to something, although not exactly what they imagined...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9807
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Woodward
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rice
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tenet
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ashcroft
by Justin Raimondo
10/06/06
Bob Woodward's revelation that Condoleezza Rice was warned by George Tenet and two other top CIA officials, on July 10, 2001, that a terrorist attack on the U.S. was imminent continues to reverberate -- auguring potentially devastating consequences for the Bush White House. While Rice initially denied it, her spokesman confirmed that a meeting took place on that date, although Rice continues to plead a memory lapse. And as the news that Rice wasn't the only one privy to this briefing leaks out, a veritable epidemic of amnesia seems to be breaking out in Washington. Less than two months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft stopped taking commercial domestic flights, and started chartering government jets for all his travels. Now why was that? In the wake of the attacks, so-called 'conspiracy theorists' immediately glommed on to this information and hailed it as evidence that 9/11 was 'an inside job.' Now we know that the conspiracy theorists were on to something, although not exactly what they imagined...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9807
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Woodward
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rice
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tenet
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ashcroft
rudkla - 6. Okt, 15:21
