CIA Director John Ratcliffe called the documents, drawn from daily intelligence briefings to Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, “the single largest release of CIA analysis related to 9/11 ever.”
  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
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    23 days ago

    CIA: “Pilots from Saudi Arabia with ties to Iran and Pakistan working with an islamic extremist group planning attack on US via planes.”

    Bush: “Yeah, ok, pal.”

    CIA: “The hydroelectric tubes in Iraq look vaguely like missile fuselage sort of if you squint”

    Bush: “Get Tillerson and Cheney in here! WERE GOING TO MESS UP MESOPATAMIA!”

    • Sineljora@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      23 days ago

      Bush: “Yeah, I know, my dad had dinner with the bin Ladens last week, and we’re going to evacuate their family members from America when it happens.”

  • none [none/use name]@hexbear.net
    4·
    23 days ago

    The documents, which amount to more than 100 pages, show a steady stream of alarming but imprecise intelligence reports that bin Laden was preparing to attack the United States, either on U.S. soil or at embassies and U.S. military bases abroad. Many of them were heavily redacted.

    But the documents included no major new revelations, as previous inquiries by Congress and accounts by officials in government at the time had made clear that the intelligence agencies were aware of the growing threat from Al Qaeda.

  • baronvonj@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    23 days ago

    Remember when Clinton was ordering strikes against Al Qaeda and the Republicans were like “stop distracting the public from your blowjob” and then he warned Bush about the impending threat during the transition and Bush ignored it?