In a new article published in The New York Times, reporter Kurt Eichenwald, who is a former Timesman and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, claims that former President George W. Bush was heavily warned about imminent attacks from Bin Laden Prior to 9/11. Apparently, Bush and his entire administration were warned about the grave possibility of attack prior to when it actually happened - even more so than the general public has realized up 'til this point. Mr. Eichenwald goes into specific detail about how the Bush administration was warned about the impending danger from Bin Laden.
Eichenwald highlights the August sixth White House briefing concerning potential danger, as well as intelligence produced months and years prior to the attack that could have helped prevent the September 11th events from taking place.
Eichenwald gained his information from an array of documents that have been kept from public eye. He "read excerpts from many of them, along with other recently declassified records, and come to an inescapable conclusion: the administration's reaction to what Mr. Bush was told in the weeks before that infamous briefing reflected significantly more negligence than has been disclosed."
Below is a passage from Eichenwald's article in which he addressed the warning George Bush and his administration received, prior to the 9/11 attacks. The warnings he is referring to in the below passage were from June of 2001, three months before the 9/11 attacks.
"An intelligence official and a member of the Bush administration both told me in interviews that the neoconservative leaders who had recently assumed power at the Pentagon were warning the White House that the C.I.A. had been fooled; according to this theory, Bin Laden was merely pretending to be planning an attack to distract the administration from Saddam Hussein, whom the neoconservatives saw as a greater threat. Intelligence officials, these sources said, protested that the idea of Bin Laden, an Islamic fundamentalist, conspiring with Mr. Hussein, an Iraqi secularist, was ridiculous, but the neoconservatives' suspicions were nevertheless carrying the day.
In response, the C.I.A. prepared an analysis that all but pleaded with the White House to accept that the danger from Bin Laden was real."
Source: theatlanticwire.com
