More good stuff from Bob Graham book...buy it!

[A_Possum]

Angry Graham says crisis of intelligence is ignored

U.S. Sen. Bob Graham of Florida said in his new book that the country has yet to respond effectively to the threat of terrorism.

Mild-mannered Sen. Bob Graham, after dealing firsthand with the investigation of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the buildup to the Iraq war, is leaving office an angry man.

``The more I learned about the threats we're ignoring, the more I saw the Bush administration leading us into a war of choice, the more aware I became that there are hundreds of people living in America who would like nothing more than to kill Americans, the angrier I got.''

• An FBI official estimated that there were fewer than 10 al Qaeda operatives in a particular U.S. city because that was the number of open case files he knew about. Another FBI official told the Senate Intelligence Committee, which Graham chaired, that there were only 237 al Qaeda terrorists worldwide known to the FBI, because that's how many had signed a record book that was recovered.

''God damn, the CIA has told us there were between 15,000 and 20,000 al Qaeda recruits who went through the Afghanistan training camps in the 1990s,'' Graham responded.

(Whew! Bob IS mad! And I am too.)



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Gah, it's stalled at #25.

[CrispyQ]

1. Is Mr. Graham the one who spoke at the DNC & said

Osama Been Forgotten?

I loved that!!

[Justitia]

3. yup! That was a great one (and still true, sadly)! -eom

[wryter2000]

2. I just ordered my copy

You tell 'em, Bob!

[Guaranteed]

4. Already done...it's at 26th

on Amazon...let's get going, folks!

[A_Possum]

5. We haven't been able to push it out of the 20's

There's probably something of a ceiling in the list once you get into the 30's and up--need more copies selling against the upper tier books.

SO...go for it, DU'ers!

If you can't afford to buy the book, make a call right now to your local library and make sure they are going to get it. Library sales are important sales. Mention it to your friends; media blast your local media asking for reviews.

Lots of ways to get the important stuff in this book to the attention of the media.

The White House is attempting to ignore it. ("We don't do book reviews," they said when asked about it.) They'd like nothing better than for this and the Kelly book to sink quietly. It ain't gonna happen if we can help it.