24 Jul 2023 12:44 pm
razoo » 24 Jul 2023, 12:39 pm » wrote: ↑ The Pre-9/11 Warnings Bush’s Team Ignored Were Way More Intense Than We ThoughtBY JEREMY STAHL
NOV 13, 20151:25 PM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/201 ... eveal.html
This is when George W. Bush learned that the U.S. was under attack, but way after his White House learned an attack was likely to happen.
The threat warnings that George W. Bush’s White House received—and reportedly brushed off—prior to the 9/11 terrorist attacks were more dire than previously known, Politico reported on Thursday.
In a blockbuster account by Chris Whipple, based on interviews he did for a Showtimedocumentary, former chief of the CIA’s counterterrorism center Cofer Black and former CIA director George Tenet described how they spent the months leading up to 9/11 trying to warn the White House that a spectacular attack was imminent and that the country needed to take urgent action, but to no avail.
Here’s how Politico describes part of the account:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/201 ... eveal.htmlThe drama of failed warnings began when Tenet and Black pitched a plan, in the spring of 2001, called “the Blue Sky paper” to Bush’s new national security team. It called for a covert CIA and military campaign to end the Al Qaeda threat—“getting into the Afghan sanctuary, launching a paramilitary operation, creating a bridge with Uzbekistan.” “And the word back,” says Tenet, “‘was ‘we’re not quite ready to consider this. We don’t want the clock to start ticking.’” (Translation: they did not want a paper trail to show that they’d been warned.)