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Administration Ignored Bin Laden Intel

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Re:Condi Rice has no experience. [WRONG] by BearRanger · · Score: 5, Informative

    As reluctant as I am to defend this loathesome administration, you need to get your facts straight.

    Condi Rice served as National Security Council staff director for Soviet and East European affairs in Bush 41's administration. By all accounts she did a very good job--as judged by her superiors Brent Scowcroft, the National Security Advisor, and the first President Bush. I think it's safe to say that a number of significant events in Soviet and East European affairs took place at this point in history, which I'll leave as an exercise for you to research. Do you think that maybe Rice had a hand in crafting the US response to those events, given her position?

    Yes, Rice is black and female. So. What. Neither fact speaks to her qualifications to be National Security Advisor. Or is that a position that can only be held by a white male?

    I think your racism and sexism is showing. (And no, your "male American of Japanese ancestry" comment does not insulate you.)