Comments on: Rice Doesn't Recall Al Qaeda Warning

Secretary Of State: No Memory Of Pre-9/11 CIA Warning, As Woodward Book Claims

[pakaal]

So, now that we've confirmed that the July 10 meeting happened after all, and that Rice was informed about the threat (and according to then Director of the CIA Tenet was politely dissed)...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/02/washington/03ricecnd.html?ex=1317441600&en=5b2729634605a9e1&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

...what's going to be the next excuse? Really, the Bush Administration is amazing in its ability to avoid taking responsibility for its tragic, blundering, deadly mistakes in judgment.

[alphaa10-2009]

tomflint69 said-- "heee, heee, heee!"

Indeed.

[alphaa10-2009]

tomflint69 said-- "Where are my Jew extremists? ..."

In Washington, DC, working for Bush and the NeoCons.

(Which, I insist on saying, is quite different than a clear plurality of patriotic, and politically mainstream Jews working for peace in the USA, Gaza and Lebanon. Olmert is not universally popular, even inside Israel.)

[tomflint69]

Condoleezza Rice, Miss World 2006. Yes I declare her "Miss World". She is a humble and a very nice lady. Shw should be our next President (is it possible? heee heeee heeee ;)

[alphaa10-2009]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/04/september11/main520830.shtml

natlawson said, "They willfully ignore what they know to be the truth. They knew this attack was coming. They did nothing to protect the american people except to uselessly spend our tax dollars on unproductive warfare and corrupt rebuilding efforts.

"They are profitting from fear and war. They knew the 9-11 Highjackers had nothing to do with Iraq. They knew that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction... It is time to talk about impeachment."

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Normally, impeachment is the first recourse of the people when all other measures fail. The problem-- as Bush, Rove, Cheney and every fluttering little GOP heart knows-- is the GOP has bolted shut the doors of the judiciary and the legislative branches already.

[alphaa10-2009]

Nat Lawson-- Part 2
With GOP "adjustment" of electoral districts to an absurd degree to help reelect their pols, tinkering with electronic voting machines to skew any election results to their people, and by de facto control of committee chairmanships in both House and Senate, the GOP is anything but a unifying and patriotic force in American politics. The GOP is, instead, a one-party wannabe dictatorship equal to anything the Mexican PRI attempted-- the kind of rule Peruvian conservative ideologue Mario Vargas Llosa called "the perfect dictatorship".

Under that one-party rule, the Constitutional concept of "checks and balances" was the first target of Karl Rove and the NeoCon cabal-- freedom of information, power sharing and equal access to instruments of power is the enemy of the GOP.

But what would you expect? LIke the PRI, Bush and the GOP have an abominable record to defend, so they must turn off public debate and welcome any distraction. Understandably, Iran is already turning into a prime topic on the GOP/Bush distraction menu.

[tomflint69]

this forum is for Christian extremists thats why they are posting Bible? where are my Jew extremists? I am a pious good JEW.

[tom_gwynn]

Everything else aside, should we the American people be satisfied with a Secretary of State who "cannot recall" an unusual, high-level meeting where, according to Tenet and Black, she was warned of an imminent threat to American soil? Either they're lying and the meeting didn't take place (in which case she should have the guts to say it didn't take place) or they are telling the truth and she should have the guts to say she did not take the warning seriously. But "cannot recall"? Reagan at least had the excuse that he was old and beginning to suffer from Alzheimer%u2019s. Condi gets no such pass. She is one of the highest officers in our government and should be among America's best and brightest! If she cannot recall something this important, one way or the other, she's not qualified for the office and should be booted out of the beltway! Likewise the idiot who appointed her.

And, while we're on the subject of the Good Book, it says that you shall know the true prophets from the false ones by their fruits. I believe this line has been misinterpreted. You shall know the false prophets because they *are* fruits.

[rayhc]

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[alphaa10-2009]

RayHC-- Just a reminder, since you have not posted before, and this is a pitfall for even veteran posters-- the CBS blog machine runs slowly, at times. If it seems to be chugging, hit the refresh button on your browser and the page will reconstitute and pull the new version from the blog server (if all works well). If you pound away on the "Publish" button, it will not make the contraption work faster, and probably will result in multiple posts of the same message. All of us have had this happen-- the key is simply patience.

[alphaa10-2009]

RayHC said-- "Michael Moore%u2019s film shows some evidence that the Bush Administration is possibly connected indirectly to Bin Laden through Bin Laden%u2019s family!"

The bin Laden and other Saudi families share holdings with Bush in the Carlyle Group, which has its bloody fingers into a variety of extremely lucrative enterprises in the US and abroad.

Ironically, the Carlyle connection also makes members of the Saudi royal family beneficiaries of billions of tax dollars Halliburton and other corporate giants make from Iraq. This little embarrassment is kept appropriately out of the Saudi news.

Moore had his film script vetted, line by line, for documentary support by an independent third-party (legal firm). The GOP/Swift Boat propaganda studio (Disney, again?) tried to counter F911 claims, but did not attempt the same vetting, and the latter half of the video is completely non-rebuttal.

You might say, bin Laden and Bush are part of the same "family". After all, it's only more money to Bush-- the ultimate anti-patriot-- and to bin Laden, any "family" connection to fund his hatred is just fine. Just keep the hatred and money flowing.

[rayhc]

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[alphaa10-2009]

"Stan Todd" said-- "You Go Girl. Does Pres. Rice sound good or not?"

Not.

(But it is a good joke. Just remember the next time Tenet tells you something.)

[pakaal]

C'mon, the "I don't recall that meeting" excuse was old when Reagan used it in the Iran Contra scandal. I'm even more tired hearing it a quarter of a century later. Talk about a state of denial!

[rayhc]

My full name: Raymond Howard Carlson

My E-Mail: [e-mail]

Message:

Please get ALL the books by Joel C. Rosenberg and read them! Get a copy of the video and book entitled %u201CTHE LATE GREAT PLANET EARTH%u201D by Hal Lindsey! Get a copy of the video of the controversial documentary film by Michael Moore that attacked the Bush Administration! Next, get a copy of a BIBLE (King James or New King James Versions)!

What is the Bush Administration REALLY doing in the %u201CMIDDLE EAST%u201D? First, we attack Afghanistan! Is Bin Laden there? NO! Then, the Bush Administration attacks IRAQ! Were there weapons of mass-destruction? NO! Now, the Bush Administration is looking at IRAN! Does IRAN have ATOMIC WEAPONS? YES! The former Soviet Union sold Atomic Weapons to IRAN; it was in the NEWS! IRAN has about five (5) or six (6) warheads! Now, IRAN wants to acquire %u201CNUCLEAR TECHNOLOGIES%u201D to build more weapons. What is NEXT to INVADE? I know, Saudi Arabia! Then, O.P.E.C.! Is it not obvious? The Bush Administration wants to corner the world OIL MARKET! Question: Is certain individuals within the Bush Administration profiting off this so-called %u201CWAR ON TARRORISM%u201D?

Michael Moore%u2019s film shows some evidence that the Bush Administration is possibly connected indirectly to Bin Laden through Bin Laden%u2019s family!

CONTACT ME! Thank You.

[alphaa10-2009]

More damage control from Bushland. After all, what could Rice say in self-defense? That her dog ate the CIA report? If she acknowledges the report to any degree, she is trapped into an end-game of implausible qualifications about how she responded and how appropriate her response was, under the circumstances.

Better, she thinks, to play for total lack of recall, without actually saying, "Tenet never told me." But to claim lack of recall is still more than curious, since much information about al Qaeda planning against the US already had been circulating. Did she need somebody to connect the dots for her? Staying abreast of such reports was the basic requirement of her job-- even without the Tenet report, Rice should have been in full alarm months before 911.

Instead, she made a habit of ignoring Richard Clarke, who also issued such security advisories. Clarke was shunted aside repeatedly in his attempts to get the attention of Bush and other advisers, then completely absorbed with Iraq. In the eight months preceeding 911, Bush did not schedule even one meeting of the anti-terror working group.

Ashcroft attempts a defense, kind of, with the claim Tenet never told him. But Ashcroft, himself, did not report to Tenet, either-- both normally reported directly to Bush. Clearly, the buck stops with Bush.

[stantodd]

Woodward should be honest, fair, and unbiased in his reporting. His negative flair is an absolute disgrace to politics.

[stantodd]

You Go Girl. Does Pres. Rice sound good or not?

I'm thinking that Sec. Rice's denials are more a diliberation of incompetence and inadequacy, then a real defense of the policies of the Bush administration.

She has been the apologist for an inept, miopic federal administration. Condi and crew has set back america to a time when intolerance and blind ambition were the height of united states ambition.

Not that Rumsfield and *** Cheney, did not know.
They willfully ignore what they know to be the truth. They knew this attack was coming. They did nothing to protect the american people except to uselessly spend our tax dollars on unproductive warfare and corrupt rebuilding efforts.

They are profitting from fear and war. They knew the 9-11 Highjackers had nothing to do with Iraq. They knew that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction.

It is time to talk about impeachment.

[drgoodwin12]

Richard Clarke warned her at aboutthe same time Tenet did.In the public hearings on 9/11 she did not rebuke or state that she did not recall when asked if Clarke had tried to warn her.He not only warned her ,he attempted to no avail to warn Bush.No wonder Woodwards book is called state of denial.They(the Bush Adminstration and the Rovettes)deny everything that does not fit their policy or call people traitors for questioning it.All the news media has to do is go back over the televised hearings.They alone prove her to be what she is a Rovette.