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Title: Cheney Bashes Obama For Not Paying Attention To Intelligence Briefings
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RawStory
URL Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/ ... ion-to-intelligence-briefings/
Published: Sep 11, 2012
Author: Stephen C. Webster
Post Date: 2012-09-11 11:32:58 by Brian S
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Views: 4064
Comments: 4
A day before the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, former Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday lashed out at President Barack Obama for not paying enough attention to the same daily intelligence briefings that warned President George W. Bush that Osama bin Laden was “determined to strike in the U.S.” The Daily Caller reached out to the former vice president in response to a conservative group’s claim that Obama had attended less than half of his Presidential Daily Briefs (PDB). “If President Obama were participating in his intelligence briefings on a regular basis then perhaps he would understand why people are so offended at his efforts to take sole credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden,” Cheney said in an email. “Those who deserve the credit are the men and women in our military and intelligence communities who worked for many years to track him down. They are the ones who deserve the thanks of a grateful nation.” National Security Council spokesperson Tommy Vietor told conservative columnist Marc Thiessen that President Obama preferred to read the intelligence briefings. “The President is among the most sophisticated consumers of intelligence on the planet,” Vietor added to The Daily Caller. In an interview that aired before the 10th anniversary of 9/11 last year, Bush told National Geographic Channel’s Peter Schnall that he didn’t want to blame the intelligence community for failing to predict the attacks. “At some point in time in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, I thought about why didn’t we know this?” Bush recalled. But on Aug. 6, 2001 — more than a month before the attacks — Bush had received a presidential daily briefing entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” “Clandestine, foreign government, and media reports indicate bin Laden since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US,” the briefing said. “Bin Laden implied in U.S. television interviews in 1997 and 1998 that his followers would follow the example of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef and ‘bring the fighting to America.’” “FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.” The day after receiving the report while vacationing on his ranch, “Bush seemed carefree as he spoke about the books he was reading, the work he was doing on his nearby ranch, his love of hot-weather jogging, his golf game and his 55th birthday,” according to The Washington Post. On at least two other occasions in August 2001, CIA Director George Tenet also reportedly briefed Bush on terrorist threats.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
To this DAY we Only have cheney's word on what he did and where he was at between 9 and 10 AM on 9/11......;} Note not a word from, bush43.....;} 46% of Amerikans think Al Qaeda did 9/11. The War of Terror was launched Sep 14 2001 (Still Classified BTW, with State of Emergency renewed in January by the POTUS since.) to obliterate Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda is now our ally in Syria. Believing All the Above is Cognitive Dissonance which will, if continued, lead to insanity.
So, to recap today the 11th Anniversary of 9/11 at LF. Two Threads on 9/11. 4 posts....3 mine. Not including mcgowanjm wire.....;}
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And this is the CIA's definition of a Limited Hangout: "the White House failed to take significant action. Officials at the Counterterrorism Center of the C.I.A. grew apoplectic. On July 9, at a meeting of the counterterrorism group, one official suggested that the staff put in for a transfer so that somebody else would be responsible when the attack took place, two people who were there told me in interviews. The suggestion was batted down, they said, because there would be no time to train anyone else." Bull Shite.....;}
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