Rice lies thru her teeth - Bush Admin in full spin mode

Since 9/11/01, as a defense against claims that they could and should have prevented the attacks, the Bush Administration has claimed repeatedly that the attacks took everyone by surprise, that they all had no idea that there might be an imminent attack inside the US. Even the revelation that Rice, as National Security Advisor, had delivered to Bush, on Aug 6th, 2001, an intelligence report titled: "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside US", seemed spin-able. Now though, Bob Woodward's new book has disclosed that ex-CIA Director Tenet, in early July of '01, felt that the received intel about an impending Al Qaeda attack was so overwhelming that he demanded an emergency meeting at the White House with Ms. Rice and her National Security Council staff. In an attempt to discount this report, Rice has claimed that she does not remember the meeting and said that it is “incomprehensible” that she would have ignored dire terrorist threats. Today White House records have revealed that the meeting did, in fact, take place.

All of this supports the long held opinion of many Americans that certain key players in the Bush regime did know that some kind of attack was imminent and that they deliberately did nothing to prevent it in the hope that a "new Pearl Harbor" would be the key to achieving their goals of keeping and greatly expanding their power domestically and of invading Iraq and further extending US military power around the world.

At this point, we can only conclude that Bush and his gang are either utterly incompetent and unfit for office, or are, in fact, actual traitors who sacrificed American lives for the sake of their own power-lust.

Records Show Tenet Briefed Rice on Al Qaeda Threat

By PHILIP SHENON and MARK MAZZETTI
The New York Times
October 2, 2006

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.

Mr. McCormack also said records show that the Sept. 11 commission was informed about the meeting, a fact that former intelligence officials and members of the commission confirmed on Monday.

When details of the meeting emerged last week in a new book by Bob Woodward of The Washington Post, Bush administration officials questioned Mr. Woodward’s reporting.

Now, after several days, both current and former Bush administration officials have confirmed parts of Mr. Woodward’s account.

Officials now agree that on July 10, 2001, Mr. Tenet and his counterterrorism deputy, J. Cofer Black, were so alarmed about an impending Al Qaeda attack that they demanded an emergency meeting at the White House with Ms. Rice and her National Security Council staff.

According to two former intelligence officials, Mr. Tenet told those assembled at the White House about the growing body of intelligence the Central Intelligence Agency had collected pointing to an impending Al Qaeda attack. But both current and former officials took issue with Mr. Woodward’s account that Mr. Tenet and his aides left the meeting in frustration, feeling as if Ms. Rice had ignored them.

Mr. Tenet told members of the Sept. 11 commission about the July 10 meeting when they interviewed him in early 2004, but committee members said the former C.I.A. director never indicated he had left the White House with the impression that he had been ignored.

“Tenet never told us that he was brushed off,” said Richard Ben-Veniste, a Democratic member of the commission. “We certainly would have followed that up.”

Mr. McCormack said the records showed that, far from ignoring Mr. Tenet’s warnings, Ms. Rice acted on the intelligence and requested that Mr. Tenet make the same presentation to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Atttorney General John Ashcroft.

But Mr. Ashcroft said by telephone on Monday evening that he never received a briefing that summer from Mr. Tenet.

“Frankly, I’m disappointed that I didn’t get that kind of briefing,” he said. “I’m surprised he didn’t think it was important enough to come by and tell me.”

The dispute that has played out in recent days gives further evidence of an escalating battle between the White House and Mr. Tenet over who should take the blame for such mistakes as the failure to stop the Sept. 11 attacks and assertions by Bush administration officials that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling chemical and biological weapons and cultivating ties to Al Qaeda.

Mr. Tenet resigned as director of central intelligence in the summer of 2004 and was honored that December with a Presidential Medal of Freedom during a White House ceremony. Since leaving the C.I.A., Mr. Tenet has stayed out of the public eye, largely declining to defend his record at the C.I.A. even after several government investigations have assailed the faulty intelligence that helped build the case for the Iraq war.

Mr. Tenet is now completing work on a memoir that is scheduled to be published early next year.

It is unclear how muchMr. Tenet will use the book to settle old scores, although recent books have portrayed Mr. Tenet both as dubious about the need for the Iraq war and angry that the White House has made the C.I.A. the primary scapegoat for the war.

In his book “The One Percent Doctrine,” the journalist and author Ron Suskind quotes Mr. Tenet’s former deputy at the C.I.A., John McLaughlin, saying that Mr. Tenet “wishes he could give that (*)(*)(*)(*) medal back.”

In his own book, Mr. Woodward wrote that over time Mr. Tenet developed a particular dislike for Ms. Rice, and that the former C.I.A. director was furious when she publicly blamed the agency for allowing President Bush to make the false claim in the 2003 State of the Union Address that Saddam Hussein was pursuing nuclear materials in Niger.

“If the C.I.A., the Director of National Intelligence, had said ‘take this out of the speech,’ it would have been gone, without question,” Ms. Rice told reporters in July 2003.

In fact, the C.I.A. had told the White House months before that the Niger intelligence was bogus and had managed to keep the claim out of an October 2002 speech that President Bush gave in Cincinnati.

More recently, Mr. Tenet has told friends that he was particularly angry when, appearing recently on Sunday talk shows, both Ms. Rice and Vice President Dick Cheney cited Mr. Tenet by name as the reason that Bush administration officials asserted that Mr. Hussein had stockpiles of banned weapons in Iraq and ties to Al Qaeda.

Mr. Cheney recalled during an appearance on “Meet the Press” on Sept. 10 of this year: “George Tenet sat in the Oval Office and the president of the United States asked him directly, he said, ‘George, how good is the case against Saddam on weapons of mass destruction?’ the director of the C.I.A. said, ‘It’s a slam dunk, Mr. President, it’s a slam dunk.’ ”

Philip Shenon reported from Jidda, Saudi Arabia, and Mark Mazzetti from Washington.


Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company

(In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.)

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"Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. " --Noam Chomsky

the movie written by Rush's friend made her look stupid and idiotic and now this - she'll fall on her sword for Junior - just watch.

Let's see, Condi "doesn't remember" having met with George Tenet ( ) and several other CIA officials (one of which is Tofer - or Kofer - Black), wherein she was warned that an AQ action was "imminent within weeks or less", and apparently she completely ignored it.

This is the caliber of the people we're dealing with in the Bush administration.

Faulty memory, faulty ideology, faulty.... well, just FAULTY.

We're going to leave our nation in the charge of people like this?

Hello?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlates...122561,00.html

When Clinton claimed to have actually done more to stop Al Queda than Bush and his administration ever did before 9/11? And Crocodeeza Rice came out screeching "We did as much or more that Bill Clinton even did in the months leading up to 9/11."

Funny how the most important meeting about Al Queda and terrorists' potential strike against US really made a major impression on her "memory".

lol

I don't care what anyone says Confi Rice is a sexy lady as far as I'm concerned.

I wonder if its a power thing?


That gap between her front teeth OMG horny or what? Reminds me of English people and theere latern teeth!



LOL

xxx

Oh my. How wrong you are.....yet again.

"Officials now agree that on July 10, 2001, Mr. Tenet and his counterterrorism deputy, J. Cofer Black, were so alarmed about an impending Al Qaeda attack that they demanded an emergency meeting at the White House with Ms. Rice and her National Security Council staff.

According to two former intelligence officials, Mr. Tenet told those assembled at the White House about the growing body of intelligence the Central Intelligence Agency had collected pointing to an impending Al Qaeda attack. But both current and former officials took issue with Mr. Woodward’s account that Mr. Tenet and his aides left the meeting in frustration, feeling as if Ms. Rice had ignored them.

Mr. Tenet told members of the Sept. 11 commission about the July 10 meeting when they interviewed him in early 2004, but committee members said the former C.I.A. director never indicated he had left the White House with the impression that he had been ignored.

“Tenet never told us that he was brushed off,” said Richard Ben-Veniste, a Democratic member of the commission. “We certainly would have followed that up.”

Mr. McCormack said the records showed that, far from ignoring Mr. Tenet’s warnings, Ms. Rice acted on the intelligence and requested that Mr. Tenet make the same presentation to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Atttorney General John Ashcroft.

But Mr. Ashcroft said by telephone on Monday evening that he never received a briefing that summer from Mr. Tenet.

“Frankly, I’m disappointed that I didn’t get that kind of briefing,” he said. “I’m surprised he didn’t think it was important enough to come by and tell me.”

http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=4701

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"This is a time for a national imperative not to fail in Iraq." Condoleeza Rice, January 11, 2007

Why do Democrats hate black people? I thought they got over that "losing the Civil War thing" a long time ago.

Spin Spin Spin and then you have Righty
with all his Quoteable Quotes When will
the Right see that their being played like a Fiddle?
No wonder were hated by a large percentage of
the WORLD. Not so proud to be an American.
Oh there were 12 more GI's died since Sat. I
guess its stay the course(as long as you don't have
any Childern over there) for the 4th time What a
SHAME!!!!!!

Who cares.

Woodwards has a book to sell and you hypcorites have nothing to say in regards to actually FIGHTING Terrorists anyway.

JP5 summed it up..and frankly you guys believe anything that fits into your lil fantasy world.

So once again.. Who Cares?