How can we know who to trust? That’s been the question for any American who bothers to get involved with politics here. We know the system is corrupt, we know the politicians don’t give a fuck about us, we know things are getting worse, so who can we trust?
From the BI article (in which one could easily find-and-replace "failure" with "success", "incompetence" with "competence", etc. and have a more clarifying explanation, but still):
"Indeed, one of the commissioners, Richard Ben-Veniste, told Insider he still had questions today about what Bush knew, and when.
"I could never square in my mind CIA Director Tenet's intense preoccupation with the Al Qaeda threat in the months leading up to 9/11, with his claim that he never briefed President Bush on the many clues the intelligence community had developed that bin Laden was planning to launch a 'spectacular' attack on the US homeland," Ben-Veniste said.
The commission report's approach to this mystery is to make the apparent disconnect between CIA and the Oval Office sound like something out of a Greek tragedy: "No one working on these late [Al Qaeda] leads in the summer of 2001 connected them to the high level of threat reporting … no analytic work foresaw the lightning that could connect the thundercloud to the ground."
What the new memo makes clear is that the White House's lack of urgency in facing down the domestic Qaeda threat wasn't all that complicated. Tenet, the record shows, did everything he could to get Bush to focus on Al Qaeda. Bush just wasn't interested."
Alternatively, Tenet was covering his/the CIA's ass, but still (again), nice new limited hangout fresh off the presses.
Hey Sean, thought you might be interested in this if you haven't seen this already:
https://www.businessinsider.com/911-commission-memo-declassified-bush-cheney-attacks-bin-laden-qaeda-2022-11
Direct link to declassified memo:
https://www.archives.gov/files/declassification/iscap/pdf/2012-163-doc-1-release-material.pdf
From the BI article (in which one could easily find-and-replace "failure" with "success", "incompetence" with "competence", etc. and have a more clarifying explanation, but still):
"Indeed, one of the commissioners, Richard Ben-Veniste, told Insider he still had questions today about what Bush knew, and when.
"I could never square in my mind CIA Director Tenet's intense preoccupation with the Al Qaeda threat in the months leading up to 9/11, with his claim that he never briefed President Bush on the many clues the intelligence community had developed that bin Laden was planning to launch a 'spectacular' attack on the US homeland," Ben-Veniste said.
The commission report's approach to this mystery is to make the apparent disconnect between CIA and the Oval Office sound like something out of a Greek tragedy: "No one working on these late [Al Qaeda] leads in the summer of 2001 connected them to the high level of threat reporting … no analytic work foresaw the lightning that could connect the thundercloud to the ground."
What the new memo makes clear is that the White House's lack of urgency in facing down the domestic Qaeda threat wasn't all that complicated. Tenet, the record shows, did everything he could to get Bush to focus on Al Qaeda. Bush just wasn't interested."
Alternatively, Tenet was covering his/the CIA's ass, but still (again), nice new limited hangout fresh off the presses.