Schneider: Memo 'could be seriously damaging'

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/10/otsc.schneider/

CNN) -- The White House has released part of a key intelligence report on Osama Bin Laden that says the head of al Qaeda had been determined to conduct terror attacks in the United States since 1997. CNN's Carol Lin talked to senior political analyst Bill Schneider about the implications of the memo's contents.

LIN: Bill, you heard the body of the top secret memo that was just released by the White House. How damaging could this be?

SCHNEIDER: I think it could be seriously damaging. What this says is, the White House knew what bin Laden was capable of planning, where he intended to do it, which was New York or Washington, D.C., how he was going to do it. There was only one thing missing, which was exactly when he was going to do it, which turns out to be September 11.

Critics and members of the commission will say, the White House should have been far more aggressive to prevent, what sounds from this memo, like an imminent strike, obviously years in the planning, but a real danger to the United States, particularly in New York and Washington. And they will, I think, make it a cause for very severe criticism.

LIN: Does the support Richard Clarke's criticism of President Bush that he and his administration were not taking al Qaeda seriously?

SCHNEIDER: I think it sounds exactly like Richard Clarke. I think Richard Clarke's testimony sounds almost exactly like what is in this presidential briefing...

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[truthisfreedom]

1. nice. 8^) puts a smile on my face.

[powergirl]

2. WHO PREPARES THE PDB??

Who prepares/compiles the PDB? Does Condi? Does each department. It sounds like Richard Clark prepared it. Also, does the president get several PDBs every day or just one?

[cally]

11. CIA

I'm fairly certain of that. Welcome to DU.

[BOSSHOG]

3. As we post, rove is preparing

the mother of all spins. bush is in for another great week. Maybe we can all email ted kennedy and beg him to insist that the energy task force be made public now and that tony the fixer scalia is not recusing himself only for political reasons.
bush - "my kingdom for a blow job."

JOE WILSON'S BOOK ON THE HORIZON. Can lil george's hair get any greyer?

SHIT HAPPENS WHEN YOU STEAL AN ELECTION.

[Prodemsouth]

4. Believe it or not there is even more panic about the Woodward book

n/t

[patricia92243]

6. Most people will believe Woodward - he has been around for a long time.

[evworldeditor]

12. Bob Woodard?

What's his book about? Not heard of it yet.

[greenman3610]

15. woodward's book

from the New Republic, don't have the url



"Plan of Attack," supersleuth Bob Woodward's still-secret study of President Bush's war on terrorism,out april 18,
will be very bad for the Bush reelection campaign - which is still reeling from gun-toting former terrorism chief Richard A. Clarke's critique of Bush, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and other administration figures in "Against All Enemies."

Woodward's book, to be released next week, will receive not only a multipart series in The Washington Post, but also the Mike Wallace treatment on "60 Minutes" April 18 - when I am absolutely confident that the common corporate ownership of CBS and Woodward's publisher, Simon & Schuster, will be mentioned.

[AZCat]

24. Woodward has ties to the CIA, right?

I read that he was connected with the CIA back in the days prior to Watergate (link: http://www.webcom.com/ctka/pr196-woodward.html).

I wonder if this is more evidence of animosity between the CIA and the White House, or if Woodward is doing this on his own.

[caledesi]

8. Yeah, no one steals an election for honorable reasons. nt

[RummyTheDummy]

23. Rove can spin away

He's already spun away to the tune of about 40 million dollars in the last 4 weeks and it's got him squat. There are two things that KKK Karl can't control. This memo and the reaction to it and what's going on in Iraq.

They're fucked.

[Old and In the Way]

5. So if they knew it would be planes......where were the fighters protecting

NYC or Washington?

Remember the lame excuse that only 4 planes were on duty to protect the entire US? Why? Particularly when there was a exercise underway that day.

[Minstrel Boy]

13. And 3 days before 9/11, half the combat-ready planes were taken offline.

From John Judge, researcher and co-founder of 9/11 Citizen's Watch:

"I also talked to an independent journalist investigator at the Pentagon whose response to my stand down thesis that I'm giving you, he said, 'Didn't you read in the New York Times' -- and I've not been able to find this article so it may be he mis-cited it -- 'that three days before September 11th half of the combat ready planes in the United States were taken down offline.' I said, 'I did not. Are you making your argument or mine?'"
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/UQPC061002.html

[caledesi]

7. Well, excuse me, but when Bill Scheider says it could be damaging....

that's all I need to know, bec he is as RW as they can get 'em.

The WH was seriously protecting this document. Why? Now we know, bec it IS damaging.

These LIARS....troops are dying everyday in Iraq. They don't care. They are right all the time.

[calimary]

9. Truly - if a bush apologist like Bill Schneider says it's bad, it's BAD.

And is this the whole memo, or just the parts they've been willing to release? What more are they hiding?

Well worth jumping on - FIRST THING MONDAY MORNING, guys!

Please note, here, The World's Greatest Lists of Media Contacts - not one but TWO of 'em - in the following thread:

LINK:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1380003

[Mika]

10. PNACer all the way

Just look who signed this,
http://www.newamericancentury.org/Bushletter.htm

[caledesi]

17. OMG! Good catch. That says it all. nt

[maggrwaggr]

19. wow. this should be news.

but David Frum said PNAC was just "three guys in a room" so I guess there's nothing to see here .....

[Jane Austin]

20. That's not the same William Schneider

The one who is PNAC is here:

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/schneiderjr/schneiderjr.php

Bill Schneider of CNN is a contributor to the National Journal, Atlantic Monthly and is a member of the American Enterprise Institute.

But he is not one of the signers of the PNAC letter that was linked in another post.

That Schneider's picture is at the link I gave, above.

[Unknown Known]

14. It should actually be quite entertaining to watch Fascist Faux

this week and sees Insannity's hair catch on fire:evilgrin:

[scottxyz]

16. I like the new name: "the Bin Laden memo" - no longer just the "PDB"

CNN is referring to it as "the Bin Laden memo" on its site.

I suppose that's fair, considering it has "Bin Laden" right there in the title.

[caledesi]

18. OhYeah, just remember how the lyjng Condi said it.

Eyes straight-forward, etc. She really didn't want to answer.

I LOVE it - Bin Laden Memo....

[VolcanoJen]

21. The BBC is calling it "al-Qaeda memo"

Bush*s al-Qaeda memo released

[RummyTheDummy]

22. This is it

The timing of the release (Easter weekend) speaks volumes. Hey Karl, this ain't goin away, baby.

For the first time I truly feel like they're going down. The worm has turned and nobody can say anything to piss on my parade.