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How Could Bush/Cheney Miss the Warnings of 9/11?

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A Strategy's Cautious Evolution, Barton Gellman, Washington Post, Jan. 20, 2002.

Warnings of Terrorist Attacks Lost Intensity by End of Summer, Barton Gellman, The Washington Post, May 2002.

The 9/11 Commission Report, especially Executive Summary and Chapter on "The System Is Blinking Red, July 22, 2004.

The Terror Timeline: Year By Year, Day By Day, Minute By Minute, A Comprehensive Chronicle of the Road to 9/11 and America's Response, especially Part I, Chapter 1, Warning Signs and Chapter 3 Counterterrorism Before 9/11, Paul Thompson, 2004. The information can also be found at http://www.historycommons.org, Complete 9/11 Timeline, Foreign Intelligence Agency Attack Warnings.

Film, 9/11: Press for Truth (on internet).

Pinning the Blame, Elisabeth Drew, The New York Review of Books, Sept. 23, 2004. Drew reached a similar conclusion as this article, based on her close reading of the Commission report and interviews with Commissioners and key staff members.

Misuse of Power, chapter three "New Far Right Agenda Ignores Terrorism," Ed Asner and Burt Hall, 2005. As one example, pages 89-91 contain 20 references to material documenting the Bush administration cover-up of 9/11 and its stonewalling of the 9/11Commission.

State of Denial, Bob Woodward, 2006 (pp. 49-52 and 79-80).

Angler The Cheney Vice-Presidency, Chapter Five, Barton Gellman, 2008.

Two Months Before 9/11, an Urgent Warning to Rice, Washingtonpost.com, October 1, 2006.

OTHER SOURCES

Aug. Memo Focused On Attacks in U.S., Bob Woodward and Dan Eggen, Washington Post, May 18, 2002.

Bush knew of terrorist plot to hijack US Airplanes, Jason Burke and Ed Vulliamy, Guardian Unlimited, May 19, 2002.

Egypt Warned U.S. of an al-Qaeda Plot, Mubarak Asserts, Patrick Tyler and Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, June 3, 2002.

Revealed: The Taliban minister, the US envoy and the warning of September 11 that was ignored, Kate Clark in Kabul, The Independent, Sept. 7, 2002.

America had 12 warnings of Aircraft Attack, Rupert Cornwell, The Independent, Sept. 11, 2002.

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Burt Hall previously was Group Director, U.S. Government Accountability Office on national security matters. He served also on a congressional commission, similar to the 9/11 one, and with the Office of Management and Budget. He is a graduate of (more...)
 
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