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Flashback: Seven years ago today, Bush received ‘Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.’ memo.»
Today marks seven years since the day President Bush received a President’s Daily Brief entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” At the time, Bush was vacationing at his ranch in Crawford, TX and stayed on vacation the rest of August 2001.
Here’s how the administration reacted, according to the 9/11 Commission report:
— [President Bush] did not recall discussing the August 6 report with the Attorney General or whether Rice had done so. [p. 260]
— We have found no indication of any further discussion before September 11 among the President and his top advisers of the possibility of a threat of an al Qaeda attack in the United States. DCI Tenet visited President Bush in Crawford, Texas, on August 17 and participated in the PDB briefings of the President between August 31 (after the President had returned to Washington) and September 10. But Tenet does not recall any discussions with the President of the domestic threat during this period. [p. 262]
The day after he received the memo, “Bush seemed carefree as he spoke about the books he was reading, the work he was doing on his nearby ranch, his love of hot-weather jogging, his golf game and his 55th birthday,” the Washington Post noted. Today — 2,557 days later — Bin Laden still remains free and “determined to strike in U.S.”
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/06/flashback-seven-years-ago-today-bush-receives-bin-laden-determined-to-strike-in-us-memo/
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bump for anniversary
here's the text of the memo that was HAND DELIVERED to the President 7 years ago today:
Text: President's Daily Brief on Aug. 6, 2001
Saturday, April 10, 2004; 7:24 PM
The following is the text of an Aug. 6, 2001, intelligence briefing for President Bush that outlined al Qaeda plans to strike within the United States. It was released Saturday by the White House.
Declassified and Approved for Release, 10 April 2004
___ 9/11 Commission ___
___ Aug. 6, 2001 Memo ___
Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US
Clandestine, foreign government, and media reports indicate Bin Ladin since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US. Bin Ladin implied in US television interviews in 1997 and 1998 that his followers would follow the example of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef and "bring the fighting to America."
After US missile strikes on his base in Afghanistan in 1998, Bin Ladin told followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington, according to a ...(redacted portion) ... service.
An Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative told an ... (redacted portion) ... service at the same time that Bin Ladin was planning to exploit the operative's access to the US to mount a terrorist strike.
The millennium plotting in Canada in 1999 may have been part of Bin Ladin's first serious attempt to implement a terrorist strike in the US. Convicted plotter Ahmed Ressam has told the FBI that he conceived the idea to attack Los Angeles International Airport himself, but that Bin Ladin lieutenant Abu Zubaydah encouraged him and helped facilitate the operation. Ressam also said that in 1998 Abu Zubaydah was planning his own US attack.
Ressam says Bin Ladin was aware of the Los Angeles operation.
Although Bin Ladin has not succeeded, his attacks against the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 demonstrate that he prepares operations years in advance and is not deterred by setbacks. Bin Ladin associates surveilled our Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam as early as 1993, and some members of the Nairobi cell planning the bombings were arrested and deported in 1997.
Al-Qa'ida members -- including some who are US citizens -- have resided in or traveled to the US for years, and the group apparently maintains a support structure that could aid attacks. Two al-Qa'ida members found guilty in the conspiracy to bomb our Embassies in East Africa were US citizens, and a senior EIJ member lived in California in the mid-1990s.
A clandestine source said in 1998 that a Bin Ladin cell in New York was recruiting Muslim-American youth for attacks.
We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a ... (redacted portion) ... service in 1998 saying that Bin Ladin wanted to hijack a US aircraft to gain the release of "Blind Shaykh" 'Umar 'Abd al-Rahman and other US-held extremists.
Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.
The FBI is conducting approximately 70 full field investigations throughout the US that it considers Bin Ladin-related. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our Embassy in the UAE in May saying that a group of Bin Ladin supporters was in the US planning attacks with explosives.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A2285-2004Apr10?language=printer
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LIHOP
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LIHOP
or didn't know and was just doing what he was told
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Republicans...the party of personal responsibility will answer all attempts to hold the president responsible for his poor judgment and lawbreaking orders by pointing out that:
*Critics of the president are crazy and
*that the democrats are just as guilty as Bush...if there was something to be guilty about
...which there isn't b/c Bush did a bang-up job!
Face it guys, he ignored the warnings, then he lied to implicate Iraq, then he broke the law by ordering the invasion.
He did all those things by himself.
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Decker you are so fucking stupid it makes my hair hurt.
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Decker you are so fucking stupid it makes my hair hurt.
Yours too?
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Decker you are so fucking stupid it makes my hair hurt.
GW,
Are you saying Decker is wrong on all 3 of these points?
"he ignored the warnings, then he lied to implicate Iraq, then he broke the law by ordering the invasion."
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GW,
Are you saying Decker is wrong on all 3 of these points?
"he ignored the warnings, then he lied to implicate Iraq, then he broke the law by ordering the invasion."
Don't hold your breath too long waiting for an intelligent response from GW.
He's got about as much substance as soap bubbles.
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Republicans...the party of personal responsibility will answer all attempts to hold the president responsible for his poor judgment and lawbreaking orders by pointing out that:
*Critics of the president are crazy and
*that the democrats are just as guilty as Bush...if there was something to be guilty about
...which there isn't b/c Bush did a bang-up job!
Face it guys, he ignored the warnings, then he lied to implicate Iraq, then he broke the law by ordering the invasion.
He did all those things by himself.
I wouldn't exactly say he did it "All by himself". He had considerable assistance from Cheney.
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Decker you are so fucking stupid it makes my hair hurt.
Such sophisticated and intimidating argumentation from the brightest mind on the whole Internet.
hahahaha....good times,
And your wretched joke is older than the dinosaur sperm on your lips.
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yes, your comeback was genius ::)
For someone pregnant with John Edwards love child, I'm surprised you throw the word "sperm" around so casually. Next time tell Johnny boy to wear a rubber, dont you libs support planned parenthood?