9-11...DID BUSH KNOW?

White House, CIA Kept Key Portions of Report Classified

By Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 25, 2003; Page A01

President Bush was warned in a more specific way than previously known about intelligence suggesting that al Qaeda terrorists were seeking to attack the United States, a report on the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks indicated yesterday. Separately, the report cited one CIA memo that concluded there was "incontrovertible evidence" that Saudi individuals provided financial assistance to al Qaeda operatives in the United States.

These revelations are not the subject of the congressional report's narratives or findings, but are among the nuggets embedded in a story focused largely on the mid-level workings of the CIA, FBI and U.S. military.

Two intriguing -- and politically volatile -- questions surrounding the Sept. 11 plot have been how personally engaged Bush and his predecessor were in counterterrorism before the attacks, and what role some Saudi officials may have played in sustaining the 19 terrorists who commandeered four airplanes and flew three of them into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

To varying degrees, the answers remain a mystery, despite an unprecedented seven-month effort by a joint House and Senate panel to fully understand how a group of Arab terrorists could have pulled off such a scheme. The CIA refused to permit publication of information potentially implicating Saudi officials on national security grounds, arguing that disclosure could upset relations with a key U.S. ally. Lawmakers complained it was merely to avoid embarrassment.

The White House, meanwhile, resisted efforts to pin down Bush's knowledge of al Qaeda threats and to catalogue the executive's pre-Sept. 11 strategy to fight terrorists. It was justified largely on legal grounds, but Democrats said the secrecy was meant to protect Bush from criticism.

And while the report contains extensive details about counterterrorism policy and operations under President Bill Clinton, it also leaves out substantial material deemed classified. The panel took testimony from former senior advisers to Clinton and Bush but did not interview either president.

Still, the report offers bits of new information about both presidents and the Saudis, and lays out a possible road map for the independent commission charged by Congress to pick up the investigation of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. It also offers pointed criticism of both Bush and Clinton, concluding that neither "put the government or the intelligence community on a war footing before September 11" -- despite ample evidence of al Qaeda's dangerous designs.

With respect to Bush, the congressional panel indicated that it tried to determine "to what extent the President received threat-specific warnings during this period" -- but obtained only limited information.

Among the only clues cited in the report about Bush's knowledge of al Qaeda's intentions against the United States is an Aug. 6, 2001, President's Daily Briefing (PDB) -- described in the report only as a "closely-held intelligence report" -- that included information "acquired in May 2001 that indicated a group of [Osama] Bin Laden supporters was planning attacks in the United States with explosives."

The PDB also said "that Bin Laden had wanted to conduct attacks in the United States for years and that the group apparently maintained a support base here." It cited "FBI judgments about patterns of activity consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks," according to the report.

In a May 16, 2002, briefing for reporters, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said the PDB was a historical look at bin Laden's methods dating to 1997. She characterized the briefing as an "analytic report" that summed up bin Laden's methods of operation. "It was not a warning," she said. "There was no specific time or place mentioned."

The CIA declined to declassify the PDB, and the White House, which had the authority to release it, declined to do so, citing "executive privilege." Executive privilege allows the president to withhold from public disclosure all advice and communications he receives from advisers so that they feel free to offer frank advice without fearing that it will become public.

The Aug. 6 PDB came amid a barrage of intelligence reporting indicating that al Qaeda was planning attacks, somewhere, against U.S. interests. The intelligence community has said its focus was on possible attacks overseas.

Deputy national security adviser Steve Hadley, who refused to testify before the panel but submitted written responses to questions, told the panel that the National Security Council held four deputy committee meetings between May and the end of July 2001 in an effort to adopt a more aggressive strategy vis-a-vis al Qaeda. The review was finalized Sept. 4, 2001. Bush had not reviewed the proposal before Sept. 11, Hadley wrote the panel.

The committee also unsuccessfully sought budget information from the Office of Management and Budget to determine where in the Bush administration the decision was made not to provide more funding for counterterrorism activities.

CIA Director George J. Tenet said in a closed-door session on June 18, 2002, that he had told other members of the administration that his counterterrorism budget would be as much as $1 billion short each year for the next five years. "We told that to everybody downtown for as long as anybody would listen and never got to first base," Tenet told the panel.

On the issue of Saudi Arabia, the report cited a CIA memorandum that said connections between some hijackers and some Saudis living in the United States amounted to "incontrovertible evidence that there is support for these terrorists" from Saudi officials.

This section of the report refers only to "foreign support." Officials from various branches of the U.S. government said those two words refer to Saudi Arabia.

On the other hand, the report said, further investigation of these allegations "could reveal legitimate, and innocent, explanations for these associations."

The report makes no accusation that it was ever the policy of the Saudi government to support terrorism. Rather, the questionable activity involved Saudi citizens, some of whom worked for the Saudi government.

The panel also took the FBI to task for not aggressively pursuing allegations against Saudi individuals, including a network of businessmen and religious figures in San Diego who, together, provided two key hijackers with seemingly unlimited money, an interpreter and other support.

The report said that because Saudi Arabia is a U.S. ally, "the United States had not established heightened screening for illegal immigration or terrorism by visitors from Saudi Arabia."

One U.S. official told the panel "he believed the U.S. government's hope of eventually obtaining Saudi cooperation was unrealistic because Saudi assistance to the U.S. government on this matter is contrary to Saudi national interests."

Yesterday, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to the United States, issued a statement refuting the criticism of his country. "It is unfortunate that false accusations against Saudi Arabia continue to be made by some for political purposes despite the fact that the kingdom has been one of the most active partners in the war on terrorism," he said.

Members of the panel offered differing assessments of the impact of the administration's efforts to keep secret certain politically sensitive subjects.

"We were never able to get much of the material we requested from the National Security Council," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), former ranking member of the House intelligence committee. "The nation was not well-served by the administration's failure to provide this critical information."

Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.), chairman of the House intelligence committee, said he doubted Bush was complacent about warnings he received. "The intelligence community was providing him information. He wasn't AWOL," Goss said. "In hindsight, it might take on a little more significance . . . but it's a huge stretch to say the president had information he should have acted on."


HERE ARE THE FACTS NOW

First the president did everything in his power to stop this 9/11 investigation

After he realized this investigation was going to happen regardless he promises it $11million, but then only funds its $2million and gives them a very short deadline
(Columbia Disaster gets $40million)

Then he demands he gets to chose the chairman of the commission.......he elects Henry Kissinger which is appalling because this is spose to be bipartisan

After Kissinger realizes how deep this 9-11 cover-up goes, he quits the commission

The president then enforces a very short time period for the 9-11 to conduct their investigation

After the report gets released he hides various pages from the American Public

CAN YOU PLEASE TELL ME THIS ISN'T SUSPICOUS???

WHAT DOES THE PRESIDENT KNOW, AND WHAT IS HE HIDING!
3000 PEOPLE HAVE DIED
WE SHOULD ALL BE DEMANDING ANSWERS

members.blackplanet.com...

(hello again, posting from a new location and account)

You can trust me, Bush knew a "terrorist attack" was coming, but as far as he knew, it was a tactic to engage the dogs of war. The Saudi's were involved in helping stage the surface facts, but had no idea about the faction war behind the scenes.

In reality, there were/are deeper struggles between the new neocons and what we always call "faction one" and "faction two".

I've said before, and am certain of this, the attacks on the WTC were planned to aid credibility in the terrorist story as the mind-controlled pilot destroyed faction two's operations in the Pentagon. There is evidence of this in the trail of activity leading up to the day.

But the attack on the WTC got out of hand. The buildings were only supposed to be damaged, and the time of the attack was planned for minimal casualties. As we know, there was an improper understanding of the structural aspects of the building, and all hell broke loose.

The new neocons capitalized on this, and faction two is now all but disabled.

The next plan of the new necons is to step up their campaign of confusion and disinformation by infiltrating sites like this. Their first strategy will be a massive effort to create conspiracy theories that don't have any basis in reality. The first is already in progress, direct from the NSA MockingBird Counter Intelligence Program. As you know. it involves theories that a passenger airline was not involved in attacking the pentagon. They've already begun the second phase of ramp-up in this effort to confuse you by registering domain names under the usual guises, so don't trust any of these sites or theories. Watch for people selling products promoting this theory, they are tied to the NSA.

That's all for now. It's all breaking so fast and furious here. Watch for the disinformation.

I'll post again under a new name in about a month.

ttfn

Originally posted by Random Guy
The next plan of the new necons is to step up their campaign of confusion and disinformation by infiltrating sites like this. Their first strategy will be a massive effort to create conspiracy theories that don't have any basis in reality. The first is already in progress, direct from the NSA MockingBird Counter Intelligence Program. As you know. it involves theories that a passenger airline was not involved in attacking the pentagon. They've already begun the second phase of ramp-up in this effort to confuse you by registering domain names under the usual guises, so don't trust any of these sites or theories. Watch for people selling products promoting this theory, they are tied to the NSA.

THIS paragraph is quite interesting.

Back in 2003, this member spoke of the spread of disinformation regarding "a plane didn't strike the pentagon" counter-intellegence that would take place. Various domain names, etc that would be used in an effort to get people to believe in "conspiracy theories that don't have any basis in reality."

Now have a look around the board or this forum and just look at the simularities mentioned here in 2003. Is there is an organized campaign targeting these theories here and elsewhere on the net?

Obviously this member is no John Titor, but still...it sure seems like they knew their stuff, doesn't it?

I am also suprised nobody has commented on this thread.

Very interesting. The mention of certain domain names especially, when you visit certain places that thrive on 911 based domain names promoting alternative theorie - you find that the No-757 at the Pentagon is one of the tamer ones! Some of the more popular ones, including those in respected positions within the 911 Truth Movement, even entertain ideas such as no planes at all anywhere and just holograms!
There is certainly something to be seen here, a warning that we all should take heed to.

The secret government knew about 911 but the whitehouse was out of the loop, just my belief.

The PDB also said "that Bin Laden had wanted to conduct attacks in the United States for years and that the group apparently maintained a support base here."

Imo, this support base did/does not consist only of Saudis and people linked to the Saudis. I see very little posted here, unless its by me, about the Anthrax Attacks, the piggyback follow-on to the 9/11 attacks. How many members think OBL or the Saudis were behind the AA's?

Four years after the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks, one of the most exhaustive investigations in FBI history has yielded no arrests and is showing signs of growing cold as officials have sharply reduced the number of agents on the case.

FBI agents and postal inspectors have pursued leads on four continents, conducted more than 8,000 interviews and carried out dozens of searches of houses, laboratories and other locations. They traveled to Afghanistan twice in the past 16 months to follow up on tips that proved fruitless, said law enforcement sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the issue.

Within law enforcement circles, some say the investigation, which is referred to as the Amerithrax probe, is in urgent need of a big break.

They could be looking in the wrong places. Imo, the AA's were a homegrown show of support timed and planned to coincide with 9/11.

The investigation has been so expansive that authorities now are in the process of taking inventory. The FBI and postal inspectors have spent months piecing together a voluminous internal report that will review the scope of the investigation and explore issues including what has been the prevailing theory: The culprit is a U.S. scientist who had access to the high-grade anthrax and the knowledge of how to physically manipulate it and use it as a weapon. That theory emerged early in the investigation and remains viable today, authorities said.

The report will include the names of various people deemed to be "persons of interest" over the years, as well as updates on the scientific tests. Authorities long ago narrowed down the type of anthrax to a strain called Ames but have been unable to identify the lab of origin. Much attention has focused on the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, housed at Fort Detrick in the Frederick area.

Authorities hope that the report, which is to be completed soon and forwarded to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, will provide a concise road map of the probe and help determine its future direction.

An American scientist and an Army Lab. But they are unable to positively identify the individual or the source. This stinks to high heaven to me as part of a cover up of a faction in our own government that doesn't want its involvement and complicity in 9/11 and the AA's to become public.


Little Progress In FBI Probe of Anthrax Attacks

[edit on 7-3-2006 by Icarus Rising]

It is possible that the Anthrax attacks rather than being a sign from the purported attackers may even have been a warning delivered to the white house to not reveal the true attackers - consortium of insiders and certain people outside the US. Seems to have worked so far.

It strikes me how successful we appeared to be right away in identifying all of the purported hijackers, but here we are almost five years later and all we have on the AA's is some 'people of interest' and the Ames strain. It just doesn't add up. Is it that much more difficult to track down the perpetrators of the AA's, or is there some other reason why we haven't?

Seems a lot like JFK doesn't it? I'm willing to bet that there is actually a connection there somewhere too. A mystery right before our eyes.

So this Killuminati dude comes in here in 2003 just long enough to "warn" everyone of the no plane at the pentagon theories and of spooks infiltrating this site and you guys decide to take his word for it??

How would he be privy to this information if he wasn't as spook himself???


Reminds me of a famous quote "warning" us of such things:

"We must speak the truth about terror. Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th, malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves, away from the guilty."

G.W. Bush speaking before the UN GeGeneral Assembly 11/10/2001

If we don't blow the cover off this yet... I'm expecting that 911 will become aka the JFK Stone films in 20 years. We will be watchin it on TV while afraid to go outside cause our implants will tell the aliens every single step we take. Yeah I'm crazy fer the truth.

Originally posted by denythestatusquo
If we don't blow the cover off this yet... I'm expecting that 911 will become aka the JFK Stone films in 20 years. We will be watchin it on TV while afraid to go outside cause our implants will tell the aliens every single step we take. Yeah I'm crazy fer the truth.

Yeah that's what people keep saying but I'm afraid that is wishful thinking my fine alien friend.

This is them stepping up the game for a reason.

The move towards a global corporate fascist state is now in high gear.

If we fail to "blow the cover" then any films we'll be watching in 20 years are going to be much more similar to what you would expect from Joseph Goebbels instead of Oliver Stone.


Actually......considering the 9/11 propaganda piece that Stone is currently working on............he may very well be the new Goebbels!

If you notice, Jack, he's Killuminati, then he comes back on as Random Guy, and further claims he will return under another name soon. Definitely spooky behavior, imo. Like Zed says, in retrospect, it looks like the guy was laying the groundwork for debunking the alternate Pentagon theories even then.

Btw, speaking of Stone movies and fascist conspiracies, have you seen the end of "Platoon", after the Sheen character kills the Berenger character, all that's left is a big crater full of bodies, and a tank or apc full of soldiers comes rolling in from the right of the scene? Ever notice the flag the tank or apc is flying? Quite symbolic. The only guy left standing from Sheens unit is the character with the staff wound with barbed wire at the end. His name is Rhah. Very symbolic as well.

Didn't Stone get popped with some drugs or something not too long ago? That could be a source of leverage to get him to toe the party line.

Oliver Stone in LA drugs arrest

Originally posted by Jack Tripper So this Killuminati dude comes in here in 2003 just long enough to "warn" everyone of the no plane at the pentagon theories and of spooks infiltrating this site and you guys decide to take his word for it??

I'm trying to confirm who made the post... it's not the same IP (very different) as Killuminati. It's a similar subnet (same provider) that a former member (joined in the EZ-Board days) has used from time to time. He had fallen into trouble with ATS admin from time to time for posting actual secret documents in the past. From what I recall, he had an intense conspiracy-theory radio show and regularly used different account names to avoid "being tracked". There was some speculation (around 2003), that this member was "PatriotLad" from RumorMillNews.com. Yesterday was the first time I saw this post... and back in 2003, it's likely to have received a "yeah right" reply since "no-757 theory" rumors were scarce at the time. However, this jives with the research Grimm was doing here: www.abovetopsecret.com... I asked Grimm to write a more detailed piece on his research but he hasn't been back online since. One indication of disinformation is always suspect... but we have more than one, and now one from before it began. Between this, Juniper 3, Serpo, and much-much more we certainly seem to be seeing indications that planned and complex disinformation strategies are on the rise.

Sure.

But obviously this guy is a part of that.

How else would he be privy to the information?

Do you get what I am saying?

They put out "disinformtion" that the no plane at the pentagon claims would be "disinformation".

It was a simple pro-active approach to all the questions that they knew would be asked.

bush was being warned years before 9-11, how? all the truckloads of videos sent by the taliban! if all of their videos talk of attack then that should have been reason for bush to get prepared. in this link they talk about one of the videos sent before 9-11. and i quote "By now you have seen and digested the Taliban home video, allegedly showing Osama bin Laden and a couple of his buddies sitting outside their cave in Afganistan, talking about Operation 911." does that ring any bells bush?... bush! we lost him.
->www.public-action.com...

Originally posted by stuffofnightmares
bush was being warned years before 9-11, how? all the truckloads of videos sent by the taliban! if all of their videos talk of attack then that should have been reason for bush to get prepared.

Bush took office January 2001 so how was he being warned for years? Why is Clinton not blamed for firing cruise missles at Bin Laden (which only pissed him off) and yet spent most of his time getting busy with his intern?

Finger-pointing at one person seems a cop-out when there are thousands of employees at the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc, etc. Why is there no blame leveled there?

To hang the monumental coverup and government complicity of the attacks of 9/11 solely on Bush, Cheney and the current administration would do little to bring justice on those truly responsible and closure to those changed forever as a result of the terror.

I have my own personal doubts that Bush was aware on the morning of 9/11 that the "hidden masters" were launching a campaign of reinforcing their globalist ideals because he was a sitting duck target in a very public and easy to reach location should he be a target of the attacks.

It could certainly go either way but it seems that the people in charge have no qualms about "Kennedy'ing" Bush on 9/11 should they deem it necessary to further their goals.

Hmmm, i have one question that's been bothering me. Lately i've been hearing on here and a few other places that bin laden has always said that he had nothing to do with the attacks, same thing with massaoui(sp?). But why on earth did a week later the government seems to know so much, including who did, why, and what kind of links he had?

Here's a pretty good link...

mindprod.com...