Willful Ignorance......

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"Had I known that the enemy was going to use airplanes to kill on that fateful morning, I would have done everything in my power to protect the American people."

George W. Bush, Speaking To The US Airforce Academy Football Team, May 2002

"I said no one could have imagined them taking a plane, slamming it into the Pentagon - I'm paraphrasing now - into the World Trade Center, using planes as a missile. As I said to you in the private session, I probably should have said "I" could not have imagined, because within two days, people started to come to me and say, "Oh, but there were these reports in 1998 and 1999, the intelligence community did look at information about this."

Condeleeza Rice, Speaking to 911 Commission, Apr. 2004

"My attitude about the defense of this country changed on Sept 11 (2001)."

George W Bush, explaining to Helen Thomas* why he really went to War In Iraq, Mar 2006

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"Suicide bomber(s) belonging to al Qaeda's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives (C-4 and semtex) into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or the White House"

US Federal Intelligence Report, read (presumably) by William J. Clinton, Sept 1999

"We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a XXXXXXXXXXX (redacted) service in 1998 saying that Bin Ladin wanted hijack a US aircraft to gain the release of 'Blind Shaykh' Umar 'Abd al-Rahman and other US-held extremists. Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.”

Presidential Daily Briefing, read by (presumably) George W. Bush, Aug 2001 (pdf)

The White House bills the president's month-long retreat to his Texas ranch in Crawford as his "home to the heartland" tour. Some reporters jokingly call it "home to the wasteland." True, Crawford is little more than a crossroads on a drought-stricken prairie, bereft of even a grocery store. From afar, it's hard to imagine why the president of the free world would spend so much time in the middle of nowhere and in temperatures that, in August, intimidate even the local scorpions.

Francine Kiefer, Christian Science Monitor, Aug 2001

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The F.B.I. agent who arrested and interrogated Zacarias Moussaoui just weeks before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks told a jury on Monday how he had tried repeatedly to get his superiors in Washington to help confirm his certainty that Mr. Moussaoui was involved in an imminent terrorist airline hijacking plot. But, said the agent, Harry Samit, he was regularly thwarted by senior bureau officials whose obstructionism he later described to Justice Department investigators as "criminally negligent" and who were, he believed, motivated principally by a need to protect their careers.

Harry Samit, Speaking at Moussaoui Trial, Mar 2006

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*The little old lady who, by simply asking questions and not taking shite for an answer, turns Mr. Bush's swagger into a snivelling sneer of 'I am wearing no clothes' fear.

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