And we knew IN ADVANCE it was coming. That is the saddest part of the entire story! CONDI WAS TOLD IT WAS COMING.... ....Afterward, Tenet looked back on the meeting with Rice as a tremendous lost opportunity to prevent or disrupt the Sept. 11 attacks. Rice could have gotten through to Bush on the threat, but she just didn't get it in time, Tenet thought. He felt that he had done his job and had been very direct about the threat, but that Rice had not moved quickly. He felt she was not organized and did not push people, as he tried to do at the CIA. Black later said, "The only thing we didn't do was pull the trigger to the gun we were holding to her head." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR2006093000282.html
Roosevelt knew too. Supposedly. I mourn our people, those other nations. Too bad. Choose better leadership next time around.
I've heard that about Roosevelt as well but I think the system of INFORMATION DISSEMINATION then vs. now leaves no questions. Roosevelt's 'knowledge' as I remember was all back channel?
Not really. There was little that could be done. If not then, why not in 1993? If they want to strike us in new and inventive ways. We cannot prepare for every and all possibilities.
With Tenet not knowing when, where or how what you have had president Bush do?? Evacuate NY City and DC for a couple of weeks?? Shut down air travel? It would have been easier to do those things than to violate the civil rights of the terrorists before they did anything. Do you think that the dems would have allowed President Bush to kill a sick dog with a drone much less Ben Laden?? UBL had been our friend and the idea that he was part of a plot to attack us would not have flown with the dems. Good try. The real James Bond character - a double agent form Czechoslovakia - told the head homo of the FBI that Japan was going to attack Pearl Harbor months before it happened. We don't know if he sent that information to FDR. What kind of "back channel" is the President allowed to see?? Do you think that the idea that hand full of terrorists would soon attack us and destroy the WTC was front channel or back channel?? I guess we will be hearing a lot more about what President Bush should have known as Barry tries to summon the courage to attack a well identified enemy of the US.
