Today the CIA released an unprecedented 71 Presidential Daily Briefs given to the Executive Branch before and after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. You can review the material [HERE – CIA LINK]
I would remind readers, in 2010 George W Bush’s campaign manager, aide and senior staff, Karl Rove, revealed [“Courage and Consequence“] that then CIA Director George Tenet had been trying for several weeks to get a personal meeting with President Bush to outline an intelligence concern about an international terror threat.
According to Rove, White House National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice, had been blocking Tenet from meeting with President Bush. Director Tenet sent several requests using alternate channels to reach Bush. Eventually, in the late spring or early summer 2001, Tenet overcame the Rice block and was given time to brief President Bush.
CIA Director George Tenet then told President Bush the CIA had intercepted telephone “chatter” pointing to an al-Qaeda terrorist threat that somehow involved airlines. However, the details and the specifics of the threat were unknown. The only thing Tenet knew with certainty was that some type of plot was underway and airlines were involved.
George W Bush responded to Tenet by saying it appeared the CIA director was just trying to “cover his ass” in case something happened. Bush was angered at the vagueness of the warning and told Tenet to consider his ass covered, but essentially the information was useless without specifics.
The rest, as they say, is history. The matter did not surface again until after the 9/11/01 plot was carried out.
A lot has been learned after the fact. Can’t watch all the the 9/11 news coverage because they do not point out the primary culprit in the case . Islam.
It makes one wonder how many of the conspiracy theories are promulgated by Islam to distract attention from Islam.
Islamists were the henchmen to create a crisis. Sweeping anti-constitutional powers of Patriot Act was already ready for Congressional vote in September of 2001. Islamists did did not write that.
This right here. Never understood why it was called the “Patriot Act” from its conception until they started using all of it against us.
Introduced into the House Oct 23, 2001
Received by the Senate Oct 24, 2001
Signed by President Oct 26, 2001 & became law.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/3162/text
131 pages in 5 weeks. They sure did come up with this thing really fast and it zipped right through the process.
Amazing how fast they can get things done when it suits them.
surely you jest………….try global imperialism controlled intelligence agencies ( who fund the mullah’s )
Bush on the Constitution: ‘It’s just a goddamned piece of paper’
By By DOUG THOMPSON
Dec 5, 2005, 07:53
Last month, Republican Congressional leaders filed into the Oval Office to meet with President George W. Bush and talk about renewing the controversial USA Patriot Act.
Several provisions of the act, passed in the shell shocked period immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, caused enough anger that liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union had joined forces with prominent conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly and Bob Barr to oppose renewal.
GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.
“I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”
“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.”
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
https://www.1215.org/lawnotes/work-in-progress/just-a-paper.htm
I have lived thru 12 bad presidential terms and only 1 mediocre and 2 good ones and two great ones.
Nixon was the mediocre one, Reagan was good 2 and Trump great 2. The rest including the Bushes and the Ford fill in for Nixon were different degrees of bad.
Only Reagan and Trump seemed to honor the Constitution
I still don
t understand why the undamaged third building collapsed and in its footprint. Anyone ever explain it?Controlled Demolition
Maybe not so important as why it was destroyed.
There were a lot of records from several government agencies and organizations that were conveniently lost with the building’s destruction.
So, did they just get lucky with the planes hitting the other buildings or were they counting on them?
“One of the main pieces of evidence cited by the controlled-demolition crowd is that
the towers collapsed into their footprints, similar to how a city demolishes unwanted buildings.
However, this is not accurate.
Debris from the collapses damaged or destroyed more than a dozen surrounding buildings.
Four other structures in the World Trade Center complex were immediately crushed or destroyed,
a nearby church was completely destroyed, and 7 World Trade Center, which was not struck by an aircraft,
caught fire from falling debris and collapsed roughly seven hours later.
FEMA’s assessment states that 10 major buildings experienced partial or total collapse
and that debris clouds fell onto and blew into surrounding structures across the complex.
The debris field extended well beyond the towers’ footprints.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/9-11-conspiracy-theories-hologram-projectors-dont-exist/
Let’s start with facts. It was damaged by the collapse of the other towers. Still, despite the damage, it stood for hours before collapsing. And that damage started fires. Fires that burned unchecked for hours. They say the fires did the damage that took down the third building.
And yes, NIST explained it. Here is an overview from the expert chosen to lead the fire reconstruction. He links the studies of the three building collapses.
https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/reconstructing-fires-brought-down-wtc-1-2-and-7
Believe them or not. But we deserve better than false claims of no damage and no explanation.
A good leader and manager would then ask the subordinate: What resources do you need to figure this one out? Who can help us? Let’s think outside the box. Are there other intel agencies that can help? Come up with a plan.
This may have been beyond the capabilities of GWB to think of these questions.
It’s so sad to think that the only votes I cast for President that I don’t regret are Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. All the rest are regrettable. It’s too often used but if I knew then what I know now. Not that the choices were out there either
You voted based upon the understanding you had at the time. We all did. We should have been able to trust. Now we know.
Same here. But what were the options? Algore? Hillary?
We got Obama… look how that turned out.
That’s the problem, Bush/Dukakks, Bush/Clinton, Clinton/Dole, Bush/Gore, Bush/Kerry, Barry/McCain, Barry/Romney… there is not a single time I would have picked the DemocRAT option…. But I certainly held my nose several times for the GOP
Amen brother
Bush and Dubya were both see eye hay operatives, and Romney and McCain were both RINOs. Bob Dole was a good guy.
Why on earth would Rice BLOCK him?
I met Rice, I could smell the sulphur come off of her.
I was listening to Rush Limbaugh a week or two before 9/11. I remember at that time he mentioned something very similar about certain chatter. After 9/11 happened, I thought about his remark and wondered that if he “knew of” something, why were others unaware.
Rush was wide read, and paid attention, and remembered everything. A remarkable man and treasure!
“W”
The Drunk Idiot.
PDJT should have told Cindy Rice to pound sand at the 9-11 memorial because she is as worthless as GB and they both bare responsibility for doing absolutely nothing to stop what happened.
They got exactly what came after in the form of a bloated DHS while S**ting all over the Constitution.
Laura, the shrubs wife seemed more of a “minder” than a wife.
CIA predictably releases chaff to direct attention from themselves and their Mossad associates. The official narrative not holding up well.
The more I learn about the Bush administration, the less I think of it.
That explains that stupid look on Bush’s face when he was informed in that room full of school kids. Maybe he could have done something about it if he were a real man.