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Thursday, September 28, 2006
Here's the Pre-9/11 History... In Ten Minutes
Keith Olbermann does it again, this time summarizing the Bush Administration's criminally negligent response to a clear terrorist threat up to 9/11. A transcript of the show is here and you can watch it here. It's quite nicely done, and puts the lie to many of the Administration's talking points, and shows that Condi Rice, in particular, has been incredibly untruthful . One point I had never heard about before:
But while it has become conventional wisdom, although debunked by the 9/11
report, that Mr. Clinton dropped an offer from Sudan to hand over bin Laden, it
is rare to hear anyone discuss whether similar but real feelers were ever
extended to Mr. Bush. And it is, we suspect, even more rare to see this tape of
the Bush White House addressing reports of such feelers in February 2001, after
the government knew al Qaeda had attacked the U.S.S. “Cole.”
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, February 27, 2001)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Taliban in Afghanistan, they have offered that they
are ready to hand over Osama bin Laden to Saudi Arabia if the United States
drops its sanctions, and the—they have a kind of deal that they want to make
with the United States. Do you have any comments (INAUDIBLE)?
ARI FLEISCHER, WHITE HOUSE PRESS Secretary: Let me take that and get back
to you on that.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
OLBERMANN: There is no record of any subsequent discussion on that
matter.
Oops.
Comments:
Just when I thought the Bush administration's incompetence couldn't be any more obvious. Thanks for the post, Wax.
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