Shifting Impressions (WP - comparison of admins claims vs reality on 9-11)

[seventhson]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/daily/graph...


Read this article from Dailykos for more (the article/graphic is not copiable, but certainly qualifies as LBN imho.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/7/18/84257/0554

The 9/11 Commission Gets Ready To Speak
by DemFromCT
Sun Jul 18th, 2004 at 08:42:57 EDT

Previews of the final report are in the Washington Post; useful graphic comparison here.
I was especially struck by Condi's stonewalling during her televised hearings regarding the August 6 PDB. That would be when she said there was a warning "historical in nature" with "no new threat information" and suggested that the vagueness of the PDB perhaps pointed to an overseas threat. In fact, the language of the final report suggests that the Bush administration had warnings of lower Mahattan being targeted. The graphic linked above sums this up nicely along with other discrepancies.


end Dailykos article

WAPO graphic comparison here

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/daily/graph...

[grasswire]

1. this is good

Among other things, the final report will revisit the controversy ignited by Clarke, who charged in a best-selling book and at intensely watched commission hearings that Bush and his national security team had been slow, distracted and cautious about the bin Laden threat during the first months of 2001. Without adopting Clarke's argument, the commission staff has documented previously unknown meetings, memos, chronologies and messages from this period, many of which support Clarke's position or quote from classified warnings he issued inside the Bush White House.

[Moderator]

2. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x693349