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WHITE HOUSE ADMITS PRE-9/11 WARNINGS; BUSH STILL DENIES IT
At his press conference yesterday, President Bush was asked about charges
that he had received warnings prior to the September 11th attacks that a
terrorist incident was imminent. He answered that even asking such a
question was "an absurd insinuation." It was the same sentiment expressed by
Bush's National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, who said in May of 2002
that "[no one predicted] that they would try to use an airplane as a
missile, a hijacked airplane."
The problem for the president and the administration is that the White House
has previously admitted that the president had personally received such
specific warnings. As ABC News reported in May of 2002, "White House
officials acknowledge that U.S. intelligence officials informed President
Bush weeks before the September 11th attacks that Osama bin Laden's
terrorist network might try to hijack American planes." As Condoleezza Rice
said at a hastily called press conference to spin these revelations, the
President specifically received an "analytic report" on August 6th, 2001 at
his Crawford mansion that "talked about Osama bin Laden's methods of
operation" and "mentioned hijacking." According to Reuters, that report was
congruent with "intelligence since 1998 that said followers of bin Laden
were planning to strike U.S. targets, hijack U.S. planes.".
While the administration claims that the president's pre-9/11 warning was
actually "not a warning," the threat was specific enough for Attorney
General John Ashcroft to stop flying commercial airlines. While no warning
was issued for the general public after Bush's personal intelligence
warning, Ashcroft was flying exclusively by leased jet instead of commercial
airlines because of an official "threat assessment by the FBI."
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