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‘Shocking’: 9/11 Warnings More Numerous Than Previously Thought
Unreleased briefings would show Bush warned repeatedly, says journalist
In an op-ed appearing in Tuesday’s New York Times, Kurt Eichenwald, a former staff reporter for the paper and now contributing editor at Vanity Fair, previews revelations from his soon-to-be published book that claims President George W. Bush and his top intelligent advisers were privy to a series of stark warnings about an impending Al Qaeda operation in the months leading up to the attack.
President George W. Bush addressed the nation in a television appearance on September 11, 2001. The warnings, says Eichenwald, go beyond the now famous August 6, 2001 terrorism briefing, revealed during hearings of the 9/11 Commission in 2004, that read: “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US”.
Eichenwald reports that a series of earlier briefings put the August 6th memo in its proper context and, if released, would prove that Bush had a much more substantial warning that a terrorist attack was imminent or likely. “In other words,” Eichenwald writes, “the Aug. 6 document, for all of the controversy it provoked, is not nearly as shocking as the briefs that came before it.”
The direct warnings to Mr. Bush about the possibility of a Qaeda attack began in the spring of 2001. By May 1, the Central Intelligence Agency told the White House of a report that “a group presently in the United States” was planning a terrorist operation. Weeks later, on June 22, the daily brief reported that Qaeda strikes could be “imminent,” although intelligence suggested the time frame was flexible.
But some in the administration considered the warning to be just bluster. An intelligence official and a member of the Bush administration both told me in interviews that the neoconservative leaders who had recently assumed power at the Pentagon were warning the White House that the C.I.A. had been fooled; according to this theory, Bin Laden was merely pretending to be planning an attack to distract the administration from Saddam Hussein, whom the neoconservatives saw as a greater threat. Intelligence officials, these sources said, protested that the idea of Bin Laden, an Islamic fundamentalist, conspiring with Mr. Hussein, an Iraqi secularist, was ridiculous, but the neoconservatives’ suspicions were nevertheless carrying the day.
This article suggests that a government conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism against their own people extends to a much greater depth than just the Bush Family Cabal. It might suggest a depth of planning that might include the CIA, the FBI, the upper echelon members of the Pentagon, some members of Congress, and the ever present Al Qaeda. Oops, did I write Al Qaeda? I meant, the CIA, but then I would be redundant. Someone really needs to trace the origins of Al Qaeda. If wikipedia is to be taken as truth, then defining Al Qaeda as a global militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden, a son of the Saudi Royal Family, should send a glaring red flag to any truther. The Saudi Royal Family has connections to members of the NWO. How do these groups interconnect? When did it begin? Something is rotten in Denmark! It sure smells fishy.