What the Little Turd from Crawford said 6 Years Ago Today

[Octafish]

The crazy monkey received a briefing from the CIA entitled:

Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the United States



Of course, the dysfunctional ignoramus couldn't connect a dot if our lives depended on it.

The Covered-Up Meeting

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Monday, October 2, 2006; 1:12 PM

The "State of Denial" in the title of Bob Woodward's new book describes President Bush's ongoing refusal to see the true consequences of the war he launched in Iraq.

But one of the book's most notable revelations suggests that the Bush White House was in another state of denial more than five years ago, this one about the threat of terrorism before September 11, 2001.

If the omniscient narrator of Woodward's book is to be believed, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice waved off warnings that should by any reasonable standard have put the government on high alert for an al-Qaeda attack.

And in what looks like a potential administration cover-up, Rice and the other participants in that meeting apparently never mentioned it to anyone, including investigators for the 9/11 Commission.

SNIP…

And a month later, as Ron Suskind reported in his book, "The One Percent Doctrine," an unnamed CIA briefer flew to Bush's Texas ranch to call the president's attention personally to the now-famous Aug. 6, 2001, memo titled 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' According to Suskind, Bush heard the briefer out and replied: "All right. You've covered your ass, now."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2006/10/02/BL2006100200537.html

"All right. You've covered your ass, now."

How different our world would be if this gangster had, instead, said” “All right. What can we do about it?”