Ex-CIA director: White House ignored months of warnings about 9/11 to avoid leaving ‘paper trail’

[UCmeNdc]

Ex-CIA director: White House ignored months of warnings about 9/11 to avoid leaving ‘paper trail’ of culpability


In an explosive revelation during an interview with Politico, the former CIA director during President George W. Bush’s administration claims his department informed White house officials over impending Al Qaeda attacks months before the president received the infamous “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” presidential briefing.

According to ex-CIA head George Tenet and Cofer Black, then chief of the CIA’s counterterrorism center, they called an emergency meeting with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice on July 10 of 2001 saying they had evidence that an attack on the U.S. was imminent and that it would be “spectacular.”

Beginning in May of 2001, Tenet and Black launched an initiative called “the Blue Sky paper” and pitched it to Bush’s national security team. The CIA called for a joint CIA and military campaign to end the Al Qaeda threat by “getting into the Afghan sanctuary, launching a paramilitary operation, creating a bridge with Uzbekistan.”

According to Tenet, the Bush administration said they wanted to back-burner the plan.

“And the word back,” claims Tenet, “‘was ‘we’re not quite ready to consider this. We don’t want the clock to start ticking,’” meaning they didn’t want a paper trail.

According to Black, Bush’s national security team was living in the past.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/ex-cia-director-bush-ignored-months-of-warnings-about-911-to-avoid-leaving-paper-trail-of-culpability/

[angryvet]

1. When will the rest of the American People

come to realize what we've been saying all along...Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rice....all war criminals.

[hedda_foil]

3. Maybe never, based on the handling of the assassination of JFK.

I don't know if it worked as the final word to a nation in which a majority of citizens were born after November 22, 1966, but that was the obvious intent of virtually all of the msm around the 50th anniversary of the President's murder. I'll never forget that the focus of all the 2013 specials, biographies and documentaries, when it came to the assassination itself, coverage uniformly pointed to Oswald as the lone gunman and ignored everything to the contrary.

Given that precedent, I have to think that the Bush administration's behavior leading up to 9/11 was a clear sign of massive incompetence and or LIHOP at the very top (though I'm unsure whether Cheney let idiot son in on the operation).

[global1]

2. The Bush Administration = War Criminals.......

Didn't want a paper trail - my ass. The neocons wanted some sort of calamity like a 911 because they they could put into operation their PNAC plan. LIHOP!!!!! No wonder that the Patriot Act was written and ready to go. No wonder that the ME is in complete shambles because of them.

I have a question - why is Tenet talking like this now? What motivated him to say this and why now? Is there anything brewing in the background that is causing him to put out an excuse for himself?