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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsShame on you, Lester Holt.
He had the Rice woman on. The same Rice woman who famously said "No one could have imagined them taking a plane, slamming it into the Pentagon" -- I'm paraphrasing now -- "into the World Trade Center, using planes as a missile."
Even after having been given the August 6 PDB.
And Lester Holt, in his interview, IGNORES THE 600 LB GORILLA IN THE ROOM.
JohnSJ
(91,965 posts)garbage
The warnings were there
rsdsharp
(9,042 posts)He imagined a plane being flown into the Capitol, which was on the to-do list for 9/11.
IL Dem
(808 posts)Published in 1994.
greyl
(22,990 posts)America... you better watch out... 2001
https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x94724
panader0
(25,816 posts)The "media" knows. Bush knows. Anyone who researched this at all knows.
Haggard Celine
(16,820 posts)war with Iraq was completely bogus, but the people in Congress who voted to allow it were supposedly ignorant of that fact. When I look back on that period, I feel a lot of suppressed anger floating to the surface. We had a President who never should have been in office and a war that never should have happened. That's when I finally figured out that this country was out of the people's control, if it was ever in our control. That period gave birth to the cynicism that led to the Trump era, and we're still not out of the woods.
Submariner
(12,485 posts)just like a lot of the republicans did after Bush/Cheney clearly lost both revenge wars by the mid-2000's. So Holt did not want to embarrass a fellow right winger, and soft balled her.
phylny
(8,353 posts)was terrible. Nothing but downplaying anything and everything about the Biden administration.
Bucky
(53,795 posts)And they freaking revere Henry Kissinger. So, yeah, Condi Rice is gonna get a pass from the corporate media.
RANDYWILDMAN
(2,645 posts)Whatever they tell him he does.
A billion dollar corp has to protect it's ability to make massive profits and pay little to no taxes on it. Meaning don't rock the boat and don't under any circumstances do you piss on or blame the pols who you lobby.
Polly Hennessey
(6,747 posts)greyl
(22,990 posts)John1956PA
(2,654 posts)She would not allow Senator Robert Kerrey to question her. She droned on and on until Senator Kerrey's time expired.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)They would have known had they bothered to read the damn brief.
That little factoid has somehow gotten lost in all this.
NutmegYankee
(16,178 posts)In the very first episode. This was in March, 2001. But no one could have imagined.