Originally posted by: heyheybooboo
Hiya, (up) Chuckie. Speaking of doing nothing . . . .
Remember this ???
Presidential Daily Briefing
bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US
August 6, 2001
Al-Qa'ida 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.
We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a xxxxxxxxxx service in 1998 saying that Bin Ladin wanted to hijack a US aircraft
Nevertheless, 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.
ZOMG!!!!!! I can't BELIEVE it!!! You've just uncovered a document on The Internet that shows a brief to POTUS before 9/11, and the most important thing:::
It tells POTUS the intelligence agencies knew exactly when and where the attack would take place, and by what means!!!
This is groundbreaking! Amazing! Shazam! Stupen...what? Huh? Wait, er, what you really just linked to was a report that showed that our amazing intelligence resources of the US told POTUS a massive month before 9/11 that - gasp! -
someone here in the states was plotting to do us harm in
some manner,
maybe with planes,
maybe with explosives, but....uh...they didn't know who, didn't know when, didn't really know how????
Okey dokey, nice link, good info, nice.....
Other *retroactive* warnings? How about the July, 2001, Arizona FBI memo that WARNED two people were enrolled at an Arizona flying school with connections to al-Qaeda and that bin Laden was using such schools to train terrorists.
Arizona FBI?!?!! Bush worked there??? Cheney??? Rumsfeld??? Powell? I know, Rice...wait, none of them? You mean the FBI dropped the ball and/or didn't have the resources to pursue it? Hmmmm.....
Another warning ??? A memo from Richard Clarke to all pertinent gov't agencies, dated July 5, 2001: 'Something really spectacular is going to happen here,' it read, 'and it's going to happen soon'.
Holy cr@p!!!!!
Something......."soon". I never knew that was a secrect code that US intelligence deciphers after getting it, and it tells them, you know, just minorly important information, like, well....the who, the what, the how. I mean, nothing really
too important...
Oh, dang. Then there was the *warning* from the FBI agents in Minneapolis who arrested Zacarias Moussaoui on Aug. 16, 2001. Yet another flight school student known to have connections to al-Qaeda.
Super...so, what did our vaunted FBI do with basically three warnings then? It locked down all airports and ports, put 10 agents on each plane and ship? Inspected each and every cargo container coming into the US? Sealed the borders up tight?
Wait? None of those? And if they'd proposed it with those three pieces of evidence, no one in here would be screaming That's fear mongering! That's a tramping of our rights! The Bushwacko's don't know that they're talking about! Forgive me for being just a little cynical, but I believe had that happened, they'd have been posting that right up and during the first plane flying into the WTC.
Facts got your tongue, Chuckie ?
Well, most importantly, I have reality. And Yes, with that, I try and stick to the facts. One without the other as in your case isn't really helpful...
and btw . . . . . Where's Osama? I heard ol' Dubs say he really wasn't that concerned with him . . . .
I'm sure "ol' Dubs" regrets that statement more than we'll ever know. Latest says he's in NW Pakistan...who knows really. I'd rather have our intelligence sources lie to the public as part of a disinformation campaign so he hopefully gets more lax and we can get a bead on him...it doesn't really matter if I think he's in Pakistan, Afghanistan, SA, wherever....so long as somone finds him and brings him to justice.
Those videos where they fly the jumbo jets into a reventment? Personally I'd like a shot of him sitting in front of one of those, not blindfolded, and then they conduct another test. Internationally televise it. Then show us giving billions of aid to contries followed by the message: We can be your friend or foe, You decide.
I know that's probably too extreme for most on here, but to me it'd be poetic justice.
Chuck