The following was in today's American Progress:

[rasputin1952]

9/11
Bush Admits Negligence

President Bush yesterday once again tried to fend off charges of gross negligence before 9/11, saying, "Had I known that the enemy was going to use airplanes to strike America, to attack us, I would have used every resource, every asset, every power of this government to protect the American people." But with more evidence emerging this week that the White House received repeated warnings before 9/11 of an imminent Al Qaeda attack, the President's "had I known" defense raises two disturbing scenarios: Either a) the Administration is telling the truth, actually did not know of the threat despite receiving repeated warnings and was totally oblivious to a brewing national security crisis. Or b) the Administration is not telling the truth, actually knew about the threat from the warnings it received, and yet still failed to act with adequate urgency. See a list of warnings the Administration received before 9/11 and what they failed to do in response. Also see these internal government documents showing how the Administration downgraded and tried to slash funding for counterterrorism before 9/11.


http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=39856

There are links to the various articles/sites.

Enjoy!

[OneBlueSky]

1. um . . . they were doing a simulation of a plane attack on buildings . . .

on the morning of 9/11! . . . and Cheney attended . . . so how could they claim they had no idea that planes might be used in an attack? . . .

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=22437

[ConsAreLiars]

2. Hmm, the "Not guilty by virtue of incompetence" defense.

Oh my! "Don't blame me, I'm a useless piece of trash."

Yep, that's the question. A monster or an imbecile. Or both.

[opihimoimoi]

3. It looks like they wanted some kind of an attack to happen.....

not realizing, of course, the immense magnitude of the 2 towers going down and its consequences.

They knew but they didn't THINK.

[rasputin1952]

4. Just a second while I adjust my...

:tinfoilhat:.

It has crossed my mind, that the first thing that they thought of, was the bomber crashing into the Empire State Building. There was damage of course, but the building didn't collapse. Of course there were two different buiding styles, but the thought goes through my mind, that they never thaought the buildings would actually collapse.

In any case, they seem to have had quite a bit of knowledge of events long before the actuall attacks. As to whether they used any of this knowledge constructively... I don't think they did in any sense of situation that was presented.

:( :hi: Opi!