The "CIA failed us on 9/11": MSM is trying to force feed us.

[Jara sang]

I seem to recall a little thing called the Presidential Daily Briefing of August 6, 2001 entitled "Bin Laden determined to strike in the U.S" Man, the Rumsfeld military junta that has taken over our foreign policy apparatus will not stop until every aspect of our civilian government has been completely retooled to support the military industrial complex. Everybody except for George Bush is responsible for 9/11, it appears. Also, since the highjackers were in the U.S. at the time, preventing 9/11 would have come under the auspices of the FBI.

http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/80601pdb.html

[paparush]

1. Bush**:: "Oh, you meant THAT Bin Laden...well, why didn't you say so.."

[Jara sang]

2. Considering how he is intimate with so many in the Bin Laden family...

It's easy to see how he could get confused. That, and he's a complete and total dumbass.

[magellan]

3. Let them keep saying it

Every time I hear it I want to :puke:, thinking of the many good people in the CIA (yes, they do exist) who've had their years of service betrayed by Bush**. Let the Right continue perpetuating the lie that the CIA failed us. It's like watching a moran poke a hornet's nest after he's knocked it from a tree. Only a matter of time....

:popcorn:

[catmandu57]

4. It's kind of like bringing a knife

to a gun fight, they pocked the wrong fight I reckon.

[Disturbed]

6. The FBI failed.

The FBI could have prevented the 911 Attack.

[magellan]

10. FBI leadership failed

The people on the ground were doing their jobs. But for some reason the upper echelons weren't interested in what was being uncovered, which would have stopped the attacks cold if the leads had been investigated. One has to wonder why the leadership failed, who they were taking orders from.

[underpants]

12. Yep playing the blame game over 9/11 now only opens up the can

they must be crazy if they think this is good for them.

I have said it time and time again I don't believe in LIHOP or MIHOP but I do believe that eventually W and Dick and all of them will be untouchables, pariahs on an order we have never seen in this country as people slowly start to ask "How did that happen?" and really look into it.

[Virginia Dare]

5. I have said it from the beginning...

Condi Rice should have had her ass on the street the next day 9/12/01, along with her entire staff. SHE FAILED AT HER JOB. It should have started right there, and worked it's way on.

Instead she gets promoted. :wtf:

That should have raised some alarm bells right there.

[Jara sang]

8. Indeed, it is the National Security Advisors job.

Rice failed us on 9/11.

[Hamlette]

7. I'm reading Cobra II and the CIA was more supportive on the war

than other intelligence units like State BUT the real evil one is Tenent. He sold the war as much more of a sure thing than did his employees at the CIA.

I'd read the "slam dunk" quote but was not sure I believed it. Now I do. Tenent was/is as responsible for this bloody mess in Iraq as are Rummy and Bush...IMHO.

Question is: why? Why did Tenent go along with the war even when his own staff thought it was way too iffy? We'll probably never know.

[Old and In the Way]

11. Why did Tenent go along with the war even when his own staff thought it

was iffy?

Good question. I think it may have been some kind of a 'quid pro quo' for the 9/11 failure. Maybe Tenet was given the opportunity to redeem himself by providing the neo-cons with cover to invade Iraq. Even though the CIA did seem to have a handle of something bad coming down (see 8/6/01 PDB), I suspect that there was some incriminating evidence that Tenet screwed up. Team Bush was going to pin 9/11 on him if he didn't join the team on the Iraq invasion. Or maybe just some good old fashioned blackmail.

[Virginia Dare]

13. That's always been my thought...

They tried to play hardball with him, but he countered with a hardball of his own? It's hard to see through the dynamic there.

[porphyrian]

9. The CIA warned us prior to 9/11.

It was bush and his traitor cronies who decided to ignore the report.

[Avalux]

14. WHY is the media doing this?? The WH LIED.

Everyone knows it, so why are these people so desperately trying to make it the CIA's fault?? At this point, I really don't get it.

[sallyseven]

15. If the CIA was at fault

then outing Plame is not a really bad thing. They were not a good agency. She wasn't very important. Meaningless. Her book will be out in a year or so. Trash the agency and then her before it does. It takes years to destroy some things.

[killbotfactory]

16. Bush didn't lift a fucking finger

Who knows what would have happened if Bush took that memo seriously?