Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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>>>My point is that the fact Bush expoited 9/11 to get into Iraq doesn't in any way prove he is behind 9/11.<<<


Depends on what you mean by "behind 9/11". Did he plan it and execute it? Probably not. Given the intel available to him during the months prior to the attack, did he act with the urgency one would expect from someone who tries to prevent a major terrorist attack? Doesn't seem like it. So my question is: Does it make a difference if he planned and carried out the attack or if he had a good idea something big was in the works and he in a sense allowed it to happen?



Tenet had been losing sleep over the recent intelligence he'd seen. There was no conclusive, smoking-gun intelligence, but there was such a huge volume of data that an intelligence officer's instinct strongly suggested that something was coming. He and Black hoped to convey the depth of their anxiety and get Rice to kick-start the government into immediate action.

He did not know when, where or how, but Tenet felt there was too much noise in the intelligence systems. Two weeks earlier, he had told Richard A. Clarke, the National Security Council's counterterrorism director: "It's my sixth sense, but I feel it coming. This is going to be the big one."

Tenet and Black felt they were not getting through to Rice. She was polite, but they felt the brush-off. President Bush had said he didn't want to swat at flies.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR2006093000282.html