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Monday, October 02, 2006

Rice Briefed On Threat - Then Forgot

Rice doesn’t recall having a meeting with Tenet and counterterrorism deputy, J. Cofer Black on July 10, 2001, about an imminent terrorist attack.
How could you possibly NOT RECALL being briefed on an imminent attack? She was the national security adviser and she forgot!!! Then she gets the infamous August 6th PDB and still no bells went off anywhere in the White House.
What needs to be asked now is what else did the 9-11 commission miss and why? SHIT, can they do any right the first time?
Records Show Tenet Briefed Rice on Al Qaeda Threat

By PHILIP SHENON and MARK MAZZETTI
Published: October 2, 2006


JIDDA, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 2 — A review of White House records has determined that George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, did brief Condoleezza Rice and other top officials on July 10, 2001, about the looming threat from Al Qaeda, a State Department spokesman said Monday.

The account by Sean McCormack came hours after Ms. Rice, the secretary of state, told reporters aboard her airplane that she did not recall the specific meeting on July 10, 2001, noting that she had met repeatedly with Mr. Tenet that summer about terrorist threats. Ms. Rice, the national security adviser at the time, said it was “incomprehensible” she ignored dire terrorist threats two months before the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Comments on "Rice Briefed On Threat - Then Forgot"

 

Blogger Pam said ... (12:02 AM) : 

That must have been on a day she purchased three new pairs of jimmy choo's.

 

Blogger researcher said ... (12:18 AM) : 

Jimmy Choo's? I had to google that to make sure. :)

 

Blogger SadButTrue said ... (12:45 AM) : 

Those are fancy shoes for ladies, aren't they? I think I heard about them from Sex and the City or something like that.
My prediction: there will be records of the meeting's occurrence, though not necessarily the content. Rice will look very, very bad for not remembering. This administration is looking so bad right now, and if they lose the house... With subpoena power, the Dems can force some REALLY bad shit out into the open. Bush may well be impeached, and any Senator that votes against convicting him will face being accused of treason. That of course is based on the dubious assumption that the Dems will grow some essential reproductive organs when in the majority. Which in itself is not a bet I would like to make.

 

Blogger SadButTrue said ... (12:54 AM) : 

I am such an ass! I commented on your article before I had actually read all of it, a practice I deplore. Obviously I would have known that the records DO show the meeting, but not the content. And of course Rice does look really bad, even in those expensive shoes. LOL.

 

Blogger Pete said ... (9:45 AM) : 

Good post researcher

Rice is a sad disappointment. I would have hoped that the first black woman to reach the high post of Secretary of State (via National Security Adviser) would be efficient and principled, but she ain't. Call this reverse racist And sexist but I hoped she could have done better and one day gone to the top.

The only offsetting factor is that Tenet was basically gutless and didn't push the Saudi al Qaeda threat (pre 9/11) hard enough.

Pete

 

Blogger researcher said ... (10:45 AM) : 

Rice drank the neocon kool-aid. She has zero credibility and can’t lie worth a shit.
Her political career will finish with Bush, I hope.

 

Blogger Shelly said ... (12:04 PM) : 

Pam, obviously you don't know shoes...
Condi is a Ferragamo lady...
Choo is way to "sex in the city" for her.
She is too conservative for Choo or Manolo.
In fact, she loves Ferri's so much that she was buying them while people in N.O.L.A. were drowning...
SLEEZA is done. Stick a fork in her. It is kind of sad, cause she is a very smart woman. But I think the longer you are in the Bush White House, the dumber and more forgetful you get. Must be something in the water, or like Researcher put it KoolAid.
the next president will have to have a freaking exorcism to get rid of the bad evil demons in the White House....

 

Blogger researcher said ... (12:46 PM) : 

Shelly, it is kinda sad about Rice, I guess. She would have made a great Democrat I believe. She was close to Madeleine Albright and was taught by her father (Josef Korbel) at the University of Denver. Then she crossed to the dark side.
OK, I'm done feeling sad for her, show her the door please.

 

Blogger Unknown said ... (4:57 PM) : 

She made her own bed in my humble opinion.

Uh huh... we are supposed to buy that a steel-trap mind like hers would forget a major warning of an impending terrorist attack?

The really DO expect us to drink the kool-ade, don't they?

 

Blogger researcher said ... (5:17 PM) : 

Now some members of the 9-11 Commission are saying they knew about the meeting and others say they did not. Man, once you start lying it's hard for everybody to keep the story straight.

 

Blogger Shelly said ... (4:51 AM) : 

I recall a comment on the huffington post where someone suggests that 9/11 was an "inside job". Another commenter said "9/11 was calculated, planned properly and was a success, no way these people had anything to do with it, it would have failed miserably".
I, for one, am one of the tin foil hat wearers that thinks the goverment ALLOWED it to happen. Kinda like, "just do it, don't tell me the details, I want to be able to maintain my plausable deniability".
I don't see how someone as particular as SLEEZA could have forgotten about that meeting with Tenet or that it wasn't just a usual meeting. Steps were taken that were out of the ordinary, like sending Tenet to Ashcroft. If the information Tenet had was just the same-old same-old, SLEEZA wouldn't have taken additional measures to get that information to other people. Only, she did what everyone else in this adminitration does, BLAME SOMEONE ELSE!!!
Maybe if they weren't so busy covering up statues' bare breasts and starting surveillance programs they would have been able to pay attention. I love the fact that Bush's illegal surveillance started in Feb. of 2001. Maybe they knew then of "chatter" and that is how they "allowed" 9/11, not stopped it.
Who the hell knows why they do what they do. History will tell our children...and it won't be a "comma".

 

Blogger researcher said ... (9:21 AM) : 

Shelly
I don't know which would worse. Being so incompetent and blind to the fact that the attacks were going to happen or actually intending to allow them to happen. I guess intent is worse, when you see it written out.
Being incompetent is becoming very easy to prove.
Allowing it to happen would mean a conspiracy and something that won't be proven. There will always be the “theories”, like JFK, but hard evidence I doubt will ever surface.

 

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