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Heh
"Good luck with that whole national security thing from here on out."
Only George W. Bush could study a memo titled Bin Laden Determined To Strike Inside the US, and then blithely assert that it "said nothing about an attack on America."
You can read the whole memo here and judge for yourself.
It says, among other things, that "al-Qaida members - including some who are US citizens - have resided in or traveled to the US for years, and the group apparently maintains a support structure that could aid attacks"; that "FBI information indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks"; that this suspicious activity includes "recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York;" that the FBI is conducting 70 full field investigations across the country that are "bin-Laden related"; and that an anonymous tip in May 2001 warned "that a group of Bin Laden supporters was in the US planning attacks."
You can read the whole memo here and judge for yourself.
It says, among other things, that "al-Qaida members - including some who are US citizens - have resided in or traveled to the US for years, and the group apparently maintains a support structure that could aid attacks"; that "FBI information indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks"; that this suspicious activity includes "recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York;" that the FBI is conducting 70 full field investigations across the country that are "bin-Laden related"; and that an anonymous tip in May 2001 warned "that a group of Bin Laden supporters was in the US planning attacks."
- Matt Bivens
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How much more warning did Bush need?
"I am satisfied that I never saw any intelligence that indicated there was going to be an attack on America: a time, and a place of an attack...of course we knew that America was hated by Osama bin Laden," Bunnypants explained - but never answered the original question.
'What would it have taken to get Bush to act? A complete Terrorist Itinerary, complete with names, coordinates, and flight numbers? The Aug. 6 memo, which localized the threat to New York City and specified commercial aircraft as targets, was far more specific than most of the Homeland Security info that now prompts the entire nation to go on high alert!' (Thanks to democrats.com)
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