REVEALED: BUSH IGNORES MULTIPLE CIA WARNINGS FOR 9-11; REJECTS CIA INFO ON WMD, CREATES HIS OWN EVIDENCE TO GO TO WAR

In today's (September 10, 2012) NY Times, Kurt Eichenwald, drops a bomb on the ongoing attempts of George Bush, and Dick Cheney's to cleanse their records surrounding the 9-11-01 tragedy. Eichenwald, with his op-ed contribution: The Deafness Before the Storm , points out that President George Bush was very probably culpable for either ignoring a long string of urgent CIA warnings or simple not in charge of his office.

After the tragedy, Bush pushed the blame onto the CIA, charging that they did not provide him with sufficient-lead time or enough information. But Eichenwald's story bursts that bubble. New evidence reveals that the investigative and intelligence services were "banging the drums" from the early Spring of '01 indicating " we have an attack coming". But Bush did nothing. The infamous "last daily briefing book" issued on August 6, 2001, in which the title:" Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US" (could anything be more specific?) actually indicated an imminent attack. Bush and administration officials dismissed the briefing as "only an assessment of al Qaida's history and not a warning of an impending attack". It seems hard to swallow, but then our press also believed the nonsense they were offered on Iraq's WMD. Eichenwald gives them a pass on that and concludes that the Bush assessment may have had some validity---but if one only read the August 6th briefing--the last briefing. But when put in context with earlier briefing books the story is very different. The problem that Bush's team released only that last one--August 6, and no earlier ones made such an assessment impossible--until now.

Eichenwald's research indicates there were previous briefings that made the case for a more serious assessment of that last briefing book. Meaning that, looking at that last briefing book in context with the others give an entirely different perspective to how a reasonably alert, responsible, and concerned President would interpret these data. Bush was out "cutting brush in Texas," when he should have been paying attention to the nation's external threats. These revelations leads one to the conclusion that there was indeed some level of culpability in the Bush Administration and with Bush himself who ignored the advice of his own CIA concerning the threat of an impending attack. That attack killed three thousand civilians.

What is sad and ironic is that Bush ignored continued, valid and ultimately imminent CIA evidence presented to him prior to the 9-11 tragedy, when he should have paid attention to them. But later in his administration, in the period preceding the Iraq War, Bush and Cheney, again ignored their CIA advisers regarding the lack of evidence for WMD in Iraq and instead cherry-picked among information the CIA had rejected as invalid (some were statements from an informant known to the CIA as "Curveball") and data gathered by Cheney's accomplices in the Vice Presidential staff (convicted felon Scooter Libby among them). They even worked up information which other nation's had rejected as invalid. Bush and Cheney (with a complicitous Tony Blair) used this phoney data to gin up an invasion and a war that was tragic, costly, unwise and unwarranted. There were no WMD!

Thus the new information underscores the fact that Bush junior ignored valid threats which caused the deaths of more than three thousand American civilians on 9-11 then, manufactured reasons out of whole cloth for an invasion and war which caused the deaths of more than five thousand of our troops and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis. This new reputation of Bush perhaps has us harken back to 37-41 BC and Roman Emperor Caligula who ranked as the worst Emperor of that former world empire. This new information will certainly make it difficult for the revisers of history (Ari Fleischer and Jeb Bush among them) who are actively attempting to wipe the slate clean for the culpable Bush and evil Cheny's reputations. Eichenwald's block buster article and his new book (500 days) will now make that objective very much more difficult.

In fact, the commendable efforts of the former Anglican Archbishop of South Africa Desmond TuTu to bring both George Bush and Tony Blair to trial at the Hague for their crimes against humanity in regard to their collusion during the events leading up to the Iraq War may be strengthened by these new revelations.

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