Administration Ignored Bin Laden Intel

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Administration Ignored Bin Laden Intel

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday October 1, 2006 @03:20AM from the warm-and-fuzzy dept.

gettin-bored noted a nice article running in very high priority on the Washington Post, right up there on page 17 of the print edition, where it's revealed that the CIA Director warned Rice about Bin Laden two months before 9/11. And strangely, the meeting was never mentioned during all the 9/11 commission reports making you really question what exactly they were actually hearing that was more important than the CIA director telling the National Security Advisor that Bin Laden was going to attack Americans.

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condi's Hotmail account by krell · 2006-10-01 03:21 · Score: 1, Funny

I think she had the spam filter set way too high again at pianobabe56@hotmail.com

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1. Re:condi's Hotmail account by x2A · 2006-10-01 10:54 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  "So if you were Condi, what would your have done differently?"
  
  Got them teeth sorted... seriously, if you can't even defend your country against your face, how can you defend against terrorist threats?
  
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2. Re:condi's Hotmail account by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-01 17:08 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  it wasn't lack of intelligence
  
  it was lack of intelligence. just not in the sense of data/intel.
3. Re:condi's Hotmail account by indifferent+children · 2006-10-02 01:01 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  the Buck Stops Here applies only if the document reaches the final destination
  Remember kids, 'plausible deniability' is so much easier if you never read anything.
  
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Re:Appropriate venue? by peterprior · 2006-10-01 03:26 · Score: 5, Funny

"Uh, WTF does this have to do with "News for Nerds"?"

It has "Intel" in the story title :)
the spell checker chocked on it? by krell · 2006-10-01 03:38 · Score: 3, Funny

"The title of the briefing is "Bin Ladin Deteremined to Strike in US."

I don't really know now. Maybe the spell check choked on it? What is more likely is that Bush saw the word "strike", mumbled something about the funny name of the new AFL-CIO chief, and passed the report onto the Secretary of Labor.

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1. Re:the spell checker chocked on it? by Sj0 · 2006-10-01 10:48 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  "Good comeback... denial without explanation. The internet equivalent of closing your eyes, putting your hands over your ears, and chanting the theme sont to Gilligans Island."
  
  No it isn't.
  
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Re:Appropriate venue? by Wandering+Wombat · 2006-10-01 03:43 · Score: 5, Funny

Clinton always goes ballistic, because he's a smart man with eyes and ears.
Congress always ends sessions.
Republicans resigning over sex scandals is like me getting coffee in the mornings, you just EXPECT it.
But Bush doing something Unconstitutional? That's NEWS!

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Re:Appropriate venue? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-01 04:00 · Score: 1, Funny

Not to mention Admin, NOR and Bin
Re:Condi Rice has no experience. by icepick72 · 2006-10-01 04:02 · Score: 4, Funny

If she were a male American of Japanese ancestry, she would have been fired on the spot.

That would make her a transvestite. I'm sure they want to secure the transvestite vote too.
Well, how about this! by SQLz · 2006-10-01 04:03 · Score: 3, Funny

Simply posting this information on Slashdot offers comfort to terrorists.
Buy AMD by srh2o · 2006-10-01 04:37 · Score: 4, Funny

I for one will not support Bin Laden Intel even if the administration chooses to ignore them and their processors for evil. The incidious plot must be stopped. Buy AMD and help fight terrorism.
Re: Big Dang Deal by RealGrouchy · 2006-10-01 08:15 · Score: 2, Funny

So what should have been mentioned to the commission, that some guy had no concrete evidence but had a gut feeling?

Hey, it worked for Iraq.

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