Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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"Woodward, ... wrote in his book that on July 10, 2001, Tenet briefed Rice
about a looming attack against the US by al-Qaeda

-- which according to Woodward was the first known instance that
an administration official was provided with specific details about
the terrorist organization's intentions.

Woodward wrote that Rice did not take Tenet's July briefing seriously
when Tenet and Cofer Black, then the CIA's chief of
counterterrorism, met with her at the White House.

... Woodward added that Tenet and Black considered the briefing
the "starkest warning they had given the White House" on the threat
posed by Osama bin Laden's terrorist network.

But,
Woodward wrote, Tenet and (Cofer Black ...my add)believed Rice
gave them "the brush-off."

... and so it was, how can the American reelect these people ... I know, at the ballot box and we know that is another story.