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On September 10 last year the Crisco Kid sent a request for budget increases to the White House. It covered 68 programs, none of them related to counter-terrorism. He also sent a memorandum to his heads of departments, stating his seven priorities. Counter-terrorism was not on the list. He turned down an FBI request for hundreds more agents to be assigned to tracking terrorist threats.

Nevertheless, he began using a chartered private jet to travel around the country, rather than take commercial airliners as Janet Reno had done. A justice department spokesman said this was done as a result of an FBI "threat assessment", but insisted that the assessment was not specifically linked to al-Qaida. But Jesus John stopped using commercial flights in July, just as the intelligence "chatter" about a possible al-Qaida strike on US soil was getting louder.





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The Wall Street Journal (via msnbc) reports, "A week before the Sept. 11 attack, [the FBI] told the Federal Aviation Administration that student-pilot Zacarias Moussaoui had been arrested and was under investigation as a potential terrorist with a particular interest in flying Boeing 747s. But the [FAA] decided against warning U.S. airlines to increase security... A senior law-enforcement official said, 'The logic at the time was that he intended to hijack a plane.'





Pentagon Prepared for Civilian Airliner Crash in 2000

Washington, D.C., Nov. 3, 2000 - The fire and smoke from the downed passenger aircraft billows from the Pentagon courtyard. Defense Protective Services Police seal the crash sight. Army medics, nurses and doctors scramble to organize aid... Don Abbott, of Command Emergency Response Training, walks over to the Pentagon and extinguishes the flames. The Pentagon was a model and the 'plane crash' was a simulated one. The Pentagon Mass Casualty Exercise, as the crash was called, was just one of several scenarios that emergency response teams were exposed to Oct. 24-26... 'We go over scenarios that are germane to the Pentagon,' Jake Burrell of the Pentagon Emergency Management Team said. 'You play the way you practice. We want people to go back to their organizations and look at their S.O.P. and see how they responded to any of the incidents.' Burrell has coordinated these exercises for four years and he remarked that his team gets better each year." Hmmmmmmm: Condi lied - what a surprise. - - from democrats.com, via e-mail.





BFEE Picks Fall Guys in 9/11 Alert Fiasco to Save Chimp's Ass, Poll Numbers

I'm sure you've all seen the "exclusive" from the NY Times. What a big surprise. Us Grassy Knollers had it written days ago.

Attorney General Jesus John Ashcroft and the F.B.I. director, Robert Mueller, were told a few days after the Sept. 11 attacks that the F.B.I. had received a memorandum from its Phoenix office the previous July warning that Osama bin Laden's followers could be training at American flight schools, government officials said today. But senior Arbusto administration officials said neither Ashcroft nor Mueller briefed pResident Poopypants and his national security staff until recently about the Phoenix memorandum. Nor did they tell Congressional leaders.

I'm sorry, but that's crap. They knew something coming down, what with the Crisco Kid switching to govt flights, Jebbie calling out the National Guard, threats against Bunnypants when he went to Italy...."some officials said they recalled high-level discussions about how the hijackers had attended American flight schools". There was also the intelligence report shown to the Toxic Trifectan on Aug. 6, which mentioned the threat of Qaeda members' carrying out hijackings in the United States (the White House has refused to produce the document, and administration officials have said that the information was too vague to act on. Yeah, right).

While you read this incredible bullshit, you can't help thinking: all this and more was going on, and national security adviser Aunt Condo "only recently learned of it"??? I don't think so! Write to the NY Times and ask them how it feels to be just another propaganda tool for the misadministation.


"Americans would like to know why George W. Bush, having been supplied with warnings regarding impending terrorist strikes on our soil went to Texas for a month long vacation." - - Rebecca Knight at BuzzFlash





Dems Accused of Pointing Wrong Finger

Washington, D.C. (SatireWire.com) - Democratic finger-pointing over how the Bush administration handled terrorist threats prior to 9/11 intensified today as republicans accused their opponents of purposely pointing at the White House with the wrong finger.

"When pointing the finger of blame, you're supposed to use your index finger, and we suspect they know that," said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, who requested that Democrats stop pointing with the "other one."

In response, Senate leaders Tom Daschle, Joseph Lieberman, and Bob Graham burst out giggling.