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{Politics.523.3768}: Richard Clark {cardo} Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:06:44 EST (42 lines)
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On May 15, 2002, CBS News reported that President Bush had been
warned about possible al Qaeda hijackings on August 6, 2001. The
Washington Post reported the story on May 16. “President Bush and his
top advisers were informed by the CIA early last August that
terrorists associated with Osama bin Laden had discussed the
possibility of hijacking airplanes,” the paper reported. “White House
spokesman Ari Fleischer confirmed that Bush had been told about the
possibility of hijackings but he declined to say what had been
revealed during his intelligence briefings.”

Heads up, masked man:

****On May 16, Rice held a press briefing; she insisted that no one
could have envisioned the events of September 11. “I don’t think
anybody could have predicted that these people…would try to use an
airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile,” Rice
said.****

(I personally have seen the clip at least 10 times and assure you
that it is included in the video clip to which I referred you.)

Rice’s remark was surpassingly odd. No one could have predicted use
of a hijacked plane as a missile? In fact, ever since September 11,
news reports had mentioned earlier warnings about that very sort of
activity. On May 18, 2002, the Post’s Bob Woodward and Dan Eggen
challenged Rice’s statement. After quoting Rice’s remark, they
outlined some previous warnings:

WOODWARD AND EGGEN: But a 1999 report prepared for the National
Intelligence Council, an affiliate of the CIA, warned that terrorists
associated with bin Laden might hijack an airplane and crash it into
the Pentagon, White House or CIA headquarters. The report recounts
well-known case studies of similar plots, including a 1995 plan by al
Qaeda operatives to hijack and crash a dozen U.S. airliners in the
South Pacific and pilot a light aircraft into Langley.

“Suicide bomber(s) belonging to al-Qaida’s Martyrdom Battalion could
crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives (C-4 and semtex)
into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA), or the White House,” the September 1999 report said.

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh080403.shtml

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