I believe you are writing about the PDB titled “bin Laden determined to attack America.” That was a historical document that listed the things he and his organization have done to the US and what the CIA thinks his capabilities are. It was not a brief that included anything that was on the way, and if you say that was the first warning then there was no warning!
“August 6, 2001 the Presidential daily Brief (PDB) entitled, Bin Laden determined to strike in the U.S.” (No action resulted from this PDB)
So I was correct, thank you.
There was nothing in the brief that hinted that AQ was going to do anything within the next 180 days. As I have told you before that the CIA gets about 14,000 tips a day that say we are going to be attacked by some group or other. The information that is actionable has been dealt with. Having been on the action side I can tell you that until Mr. Clinton was elected the standing orders were simple, if anyone can be identified they were snatched off the streets and never seen again. Mr. Clinton canceled that order he made it easier for the enemy to succeed. He preferred to go with extreme rendition, which everyone on the extreme left, including yourself, says Mr. Bush should not do because he is a bad person doing bad things.
P 156
“On July 24, 2001 King Abdullah of Jordan sent word (to Bush) in his view Bin Laden and his command structure must be dealt with in a decisive and military fashion. He offered to send two battalions of Jordanian Special Forces to go door-to-door in Afghanistan” (Bush took no action).
So here you advocate a preemptive strike into a nation without provocation because they might do something to us. Is that not the same justification Mr. Bush used to go to war in Iraq that you said was illegal and worthy of impeachment? Please explain why it is ok in this case but not ok in Iraq. Afghanistan had not done anything to us they only provided safe haven for the terrorist. Just like in Iraq. What I am getting from you is that Mr. Bush was criminal for not starting a war with Afghanistan and criminal for using the attack on 9/11 as justification to attack Iraq who was providing safe haven for terrorist. Just where is your logic here?
P153
“At the conclusion of the July 10th meeting Condi looked at Cofer and asked, what should we do? Cofer responded this country needs to go on a war footing now!” ( Nothing changed after this meeting In addition the Bush administration kept the very existence of this meeting secret even from the 9/11 Commission The commission and the public did not learn of this July 10th meeting until the Fall of 2006 when the Press learned of the meeting and the dire warning that was ignored by Bush and Rice).
So it was Mr. Black not Mr. Tenant that suggested going to a war footing like you had posted before.
Mr. Black is a smart man and I respected him each time we met. He was the one that set up the strategy for attacking Afghanistan after 9/11 and in the meeting at Camp David he was wise not to mention this previous discussion. Or at least no one at the meeting remembers him bringing it up. Mr. Black was the one in charge or involved in almost every black operation for the last 20 years. He was the one that designed the Ghost program around the world and was shelved during the Clinton administration. So the program that was protecting America set up by Mr. Reagan and Mr. Bush was stopped by Mr. Clinton and reactivated by Mr. Bush but not soon enough to stop the 8 year head start AQ and others had in his 8 months before 9/11.