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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-11-11 01:56 PM
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Richard Clarke suggests the CIA tried to recruit 9/11 hijackers—then covered it up.
An Explosive New 9/11 Charge
In a new documentary, ex-national security aide Richard Clarke suggests the CIA tried to recruit 9/11 hijackers—then covered it up. Philip Shenon on George Tenet’s denial.
Aug 11, 2011 8:47 AM EDT
With the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks only a month away, former CIA Director George Tenet and two former top aides are fighting back hard against allegations that they engaged in a massive cover-up in 2000 and 2001 to hide intelligence from the White House and the FBI that might have prevented the attacks.
The source of the explosive, unproved allegations is a man who once considered Tenet a close friend: former White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, who makes the charges against Tenet and the CIA in an interview for a radio documentary timed to the 10th anniversary next month. Portions of the Clarke interview were made available to The Daily Beast by the producers of the documentary.
In the interview for the documentary, Clarke offers an incendiary theory that, if true, would rewrite the history of the 9/11 attacks, suggesting that the CIA intentionally withheld information from the White House and FBI in 2000 and 2001 that two Saudi-born terrorists were on U.S. soil – terrorists who went on to become suicide hijackers on 9/11.
Clarke speculates – and readily admits he cannot prove -- that the CIA withheld the information because the agency had been trying to recruit the terrorists, while they were living in southern California under their own names, to work as CIA agents inside Al Qaeda. After the recruitment effort went sour, senior CIA officers continued to withhold the information from the White House for fear they would be accused of “malfeasance and misfeasance,†Clarke suggests.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/11/septem...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1718887
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thundley!
I searched that entire thread and there wasn't 1 mention of Clinton. How dare you try and pin this on that poor, innocent president.
No mention of Sandy Burglar Berger either.
There was, however, a snide picture of Bush giving George Tenet a medal.
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No matter who was President, recruiting intelligence and counterintelligence sources is what the CIA is supposed to do, and it's the kind of activity they should have covered up afterward.
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No matter who was President, recruiting intelligence and counterintelligence sources is what the CIA is supposed to do, and it's the kind of activity they should have covered up afterward.
This is why you will be my Minister of Internal Security once I assume the throne.
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thundley!
I searched that entire thread and there wasn't 1 mention of Clinton. How dare you try and pin this on that poor, innocent president.
No mention of Sandy Burglar Berger either.
There was, however, a snide picture of Bush giving George Tenet a medal.
Who was president in 2000 and who still had their men in the CIA and FBI during much of 2001? :whistling:
No matter who was President, recruiting intelligence and counterintelligence sources is what the CIA is supposed to do, and it's the kind of activity they should have covered up afterward.
True.
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This is why you will be my Minister of Internal Security once I assume the throne.
I'm in.
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I'm reserving judgement on this until Nadin splains it to us. :-)
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"Czar"? I didn't think we had czars until we went full blown Soviet when Glorious Comrade Leader came along on '08.
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This is why you will be my Minister of Internal Security once I assume the throne.
GOBUCKS for minister if information. :cheersmate:
edited to put GOBUCKS in uppercase
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This is why you will be my Minister of Internal Security once I assume the throne.
I want to be your Minister of Re-education.
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This is why you will be my Minister of Internal Security once I assume the throne.
I want the Communications Director's slot! :-) O-)
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I want the Communications Director's slot! :-) O-)
I want one of those important sounding "DO-NOTHING" jobs that has a high salary and a damn good pension plan.... :-)
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I want one of those important sounding "DO-NOTHING" jobs that has a high salary and a damn good pension plan.... :-)
Under MSB, that sounds like "EPA Director."
:lmao:
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WTF? BTW, the post was moved to another forum, I assume it was moved to the 9/11 forum, then the topic was pulled. Anyway we can see what the responses were?
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