Ms Rice- A Freakin' Liar

Rice: "We committed more funding to counterterrorism and intelligence efforts."

But what about this, Ms. Rice? From WaPo dated 3/21:

"In the early days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Bush White House cut by nearly two-thirds an emergency request for counterterrorism funds by the FBI, an internal administration budget document shows."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13541-2004Mar21.html



it's all one big lie...

"We now know that the real threat had been in the United States since at least 1999. The plot to attack New York and Washington had been hatching for nearly two years. According to the FBI, by June 2001 16 of the 19 hijackers were already here. Even if we had known exactly where Osama bin Laden was, and the armed Predator had been available to strike him, the Sept. 11 hijackers almost certainly would have carried out their plan. So, too, if the Northern Alliance had somehow managed to topple the Taliban, the Sept. 11 hijackers were here in America -- not in Afghanistan."

So they knew for two years before 9/11 that there was a plot to attack New York and Washington...and the FBI by June of 2001 knew that 16 of the 19 known al Qaeda members were here in the US. So if they knew that these guys were here...and that they knew for two years that a plot was in motion to attack New York and Washington...why didn't they do anything...?

She says that they recieved no intelligence that terrorists were preparing to attack the homeland using airplanes...but yet most if not all of the hi-jackers were enrolled in flight schools learning to fly jumbo jets...according to the Pheonix memo...

If they didn't recieve a plan but yet they knew of a plot...then why didn't she have a plan put togther...after all...she is the national security adviser is she not...so I'm guessing that she is incompitent and should not be in the position that she is in...


If you ask me she has just implicated herself and the rest of the administration...that they knew of an attack was going to be carried out on this country...Namely New York and Washington...and they knew that 16 of the 19 hijackers were in this country with ties to al Qaeda and they did nothing...


Condi says: "We received no intelligence that terrorists were preparing to attack the homeland using airplanes as missiles."

What about the Aug 6 PDB (President's Daily Brief), entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."?

"The super-secret PDB has emerged in the public eye with the disclosure that President Bush was informed by the Aug. 6 version that terrorists associated with Osama bin Laden might try to hijack an airplane."

- Walter Pincus, WaPo
Friday, May 24, 2002; Page A33

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Aug+6+PDB&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-...

"One PDB was given at the presidential ranch in Crawford, Texas, on Aug. 6, and dealt with the possibility that Al Qaeda might hijack airplanes."

- Michael Isikoff
Newsweek, 26 May 2003

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Aug+6+PDB&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-...

"The Aug. 6, 2001 PDB given to Bush while on vacation at his ranch in Crawford {focused} on the prospect of an upcoming Al Qaeda attack and the prospect that terrorists might seek to hijack commercial airliners ?- a warning that critics have long charged should have triggered a more vigorous response from the White House. The title of the PDB ... was more prophetic than the White House has ever acknowledged: Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Aug+6+PDB&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-

CLAIM #1: "Richard Clarke had plenty of opportunities to tell us in the administration that he thought the war on terrorism was moving in the wrong direction and he chose not to." - National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, 3/22/04

FACT: Clarke sent a memo to Rice principals on 1/24/01 marked "urgent" asking for a Cabinet-level meeting to deal with an impending Al Qaeda attack. The White House acknowledges this, but says "principals did not need to have a formal meeting to discuss the threat." No meeting occurred until one week before 9/11. - White House Press Release, 3/21/04

CLAIM #2: "The president returned to the White House and called me in and said, I've learned from George Tenet that there is no evidence of a link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11." - National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, 3/22/04

FACT: If this is true, then why did the President and Vice President repeatedly claim Saddam Hussein was directly connected to 9/11? President Bush sent a letter to Congress on 3/19/03 saying that the Iraq war was permitted specifically under legislation that authorized force against "nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11." Similarly, Vice President Cheney said on 9/14/03 that "It is not surprising that people make that connection" between Iraq and the 9/11 attacks, and said "we don't know" if there is a connection.

CLAIM #4: "In June and July when the threat spikes were so high…we were at battle stations…The fact of the matter is [that] the administration focused on this before 9/11." - National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, 3/22/04

FACT: "Documents indicate that before Sept. 11, Ashcroft did not give terrorism top billing in his strategic plans for the Justice Department, which includes the FBI. A draft of Ashcroft's ?'Strategic Plan' from Aug. 9, 2001, does not put fighting terrorism as one of the department's seven goals, ranking it as a sub-goal beneath gun violence and drugs. By contrast, in April 2000, Ashcroft's predecessor, Janet Reno, called terrorism ?'the most challenging threat in the criminal justice area.'" - Washington Post, 3/22/04

CLAIM #5: "The president launched an aggressive response after 9/11." - National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, 3/22/04

FACT: "In the early days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Bush White House cut by nearly two-thirds an emergency request for counterterrorism funds by the FBI, an internal administration budget document shows. The papers show that Ashcroft ranked counterterrorism efforts as a lower priority than his predecessor did, and that he resisted FBI requests for more counterterrorism funding before and immediately after the attacks." - Washington Post, 3/22/04

CLAIM #6: "Well, [Clarke] wasn't in the loop, frankly, on a lot of this stuff…" - Vice President Dick Cheney, 3/22/04

FACT: "The Government's interagency counterterrorism crisis management forum (the Counterterrorism Security Group, or "CSG") chaired by Dick Clarke met regularly, often daily, during the high threat period." - White House Press Release, 3/21/04

CLAIM #7: "[Bush] wanted a far more effective policy for trying to deal with [terrorism], and that process was in motion throughout the spring." - Vice President Dick Cheney on Rush Limbaugh, 3/22/04

FACT: "Bush said [in May of 2001] that Cheney would direct a government-wide review on managing the consequences of a domestic attack, and 'I will periodically chair a meeting of the National Security Council to review these efforts.' Neither Cheney's review nor Bush's took place." - Washington Post, 1/20/02