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Parts of the original document were not made public by the White House for security reasons.

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pinksharkmark said:
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Well, from the famous PNAC document from '96...

PNAC is not the administration.

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So let's just shitcan the whole circle jerk, recognize reality -- it was neither Bush's fault nor Clinton's fault; it was the Jihadist's fault

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I repeat, even if they had released the entire thing -- no edits whatsoever -- the partisans would claim Bush had removed stuff without admitting it.

This makes the release of the document an exercise in futility.

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Their members overlap quite a bit.

So does the membership of Skull and Bones and the Masons and probably for that matter the Catholic Church. What's your point?

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You seem to be implying that your view of 'reality' is somehow more correct than others.

It is.

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Was it Chamberlain's fault that Hitler invaded Poland?

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If Bush did know the attacks were going to happen, and he did nothing, then he should share some of the blame.

Operative word here being "if". There is no credible evidence he did.

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It seems a bit presumptuous to declare anyone blame free until the report comes out at the very least.

Anyone who has been following the committee's work knows already what the conclusion will be. The testimony for the most part has been public (with the notable exception of Clinton and Gore), and leaks are the norm. There will be no "smoking gun" here.

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I think these paragraphs point to information that could have been acted on...

Uh huh. Let's look at your discoveries:

1) An uncorroborated three year old report that bin Laden wanted to hijack an aircraft.

2) FBI reports of suspicious activity consistent with hijack preparations.

3) A single, non second-sourced phone call to a US embassy in an Arab country claiming bin Laden's group was planning an attack on the US with explosives someday.

What this boils down to is the possibility that someday someone may hijack an airliner somewhere in the US and fly it somewhere else. Or that someday someone may plant a bomb somewhere in the US.

This is actionable intelligence?

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There are orders of magnitude more evidence for their (the weapons) existence than the "evidence" in that August 6 PDB that specific members of Al Qaeda would on a specific day at specific times seize specific airplanes from specific locations and use them not to bargain for the release of any "political prisoners" (as the 1998 report suggests), but instead fly them into buildings.

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The Taliban warned:
"Weeks before the terrorist attacks on 11 September, the United States and the United Nations ignored warnings from a secret Taliban emissary that Osama bin Laden was planning a huge attack on American soil."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=331115

The Germans warned:
"According to an article in one of the major daily newspapers in Germany, published just after the destruction of the World Trade Center, the German intelligence service BND told both US and Israeli intelligence agencies in June that Middle East terrorists were 'planning to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli culture.'

"The newspaper cited unnamed German intelligence sources, who said that the information came through Echelon, the US-controlled system of 120 satellites which monitors all worldwide electronic communications. Echelon is operated jointly by the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand, although its existence is not officially admitted."
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jan2002/sept-j16.shtml

The Egyptians warned:
"Egyptian intelligence warned American officials about a week before Sept. 11 that Osama bin Laden's network was in the advance stages of executing a significant operation against an American target, President Hosni Mubarak said in an interview on Sunday."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/04/national/04WARN.html

The Russians warned:
According to Russian press reports, Russian intelligence notified the CIA during the summer that 25 terrorist pilots had been specifically training for suicide missions. In an interview September 15 with MSNBC, Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed that he had ordered Russian intelligence in August to warn the US government "in the strongest possible terms" of imminent attacks on airports and government buildings.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jan2002/sept-j16.shtml

The French warned:
"A key point in unraveling why the FBI failed to follow up leads on Al Qaeda terrorism now centers on the Bureau's contemptuously brushing aside warnings from French intelligence a few days before 9-11."
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0222/ridgeway2.php

The British warned:
"Britain gave President Bush a categorical warning to expect multiple airline hijackings by the al-Qaeda network a month before the September 11 attacks which killed nearly 3000 people and triggered the international war against terrorism."
http://www.sundayherald.com/24822

The Israelis warned:
The London Telegraph: "Israeli intelligence officials say that they warned their counterparts in the United States last month that large-scale terrorist attacks on highly visible targets on the American mainland were imminent."
http://tinyurl.com/28rrh

The Moroccans warned:
"A Moroccan secret agent, Hassan Dabou, had penetrated al Qaeda for two years, breaking cover the summer of 2001 to warn of 'spectacular' attacks in New York in the summer or autumn of 2001. Secret service chiefs are said to have taken seriously the tip from one of its veteran informants and immediately passed on the details to Washington."
Times of London, June 12, 2002

Arab intelligence agencies warned:
"When the hubbub about what the White House did or didn't know before Sept. 11 dies down, Congressional or other investigators should consider the specific warnings that friendly Arab intelligence services sent to Washington in the summer of 2001."
http://www.iht.com/articles/58269.html

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