ClydeR
02-15-2016, 10:16 AM
Former President George W. Bush will join his brother Jeb! at a SC rally this evening. It starts around 6:00 PM eastern time. Will he address Trump's accusations?
In several interviews since the CBS debate on Saturday, Trump has doubled down on his criticism of Jeb! for saying that his brother kept us safe. For example..
Trump also said that he believed the 9/11 attacks could have been prevented by George W. Bush and that claims from people like Jeb Bush that he "kept us safe" were untrue. "I wish he did," Trump said in reference to America's safety. "How did he keep us safe when the World Trade Center, during his time in office, came down?" Blaming a lack of communication between the CIA and other intelligence agencies at the time, Trump said there was "information that bad things were going to happen and yes, the answer is he should have known…absolutely they should have known."
More... (http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/trump-continues-attacks-bush-legacy-ahead-key-s-c-primary-n518616)
Is there any basis for Trump's claim? Perhaps. But it's still classified.
On Aug. 6, 2001, President George W. Bush received a classified review of the threats posed by Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network, Al Qaeda. That morning’s “presidential daily brief” — the top-secret document prepared by America’s intelligence agencies — featured the now-infamous heading: “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” A few weeks later, on 9/11, Al Qaeda accomplished that goal.
On April 10, 2004, the Bush White House declassified that daily brief — and only that daily brief — in response to pressure from the 9/11 Commission, which was investigating the events leading to the attack. Administration officials dismissed the document’s significance, saying that, despite the jaw-dropping headline, it was only an assessment of Al Qaeda’s history, not a warning of the impending attack. While some critics considered that claim absurd, a close reading of the brief showed that the
argument had some validity.
That is, unless it was read in conjunction with the daily briefs preceding Aug. 6, the ones the Bush administration would not release. While those documents are still not public, I have 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. In other words, the Aug. 6 document, for all of the controversy it provoked, is not nearly as shocking as the briefs that came before it.
More... (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/opinion/the-bush-white-house-was-deaf-to-9-11-warnings.html)
Could the 9/11 attack have been stopped, had the Bush team reacted with urgency to the warnings contained in all of those daily briefs? We can’t ever know. And that may be the most agonizing reality of all.
In several interviews since the CBS debate on Saturday, Trump has doubled down on his criticism of Jeb! for saying that his brother kept us safe. For example..
Trump also said that he believed the 9/11 attacks could have been prevented by George W. Bush and that claims from people like Jeb Bush that he "kept us safe" were untrue. "I wish he did," Trump said in reference to America's safety. "How did he keep us safe when the World Trade Center, during his time in office, came down?" Blaming a lack of communication between the CIA and other intelligence agencies at the time, Trump said there was "information that bad things were going to happen and yes, the answer is he should have known…absolutely they should have known."
More... (http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/trump-continues-attacks-bush-legacy-ahead-key-s-c-primary-n518616)
Is there any basis for Trump's claim? Perhaps. But it's still classified.
On Aug. 6, 2001, President George W. Bush received a classified review of the threats posed by Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network, Al Qaeda. That morning’s “presidential daily brief” — the top-secret document prepared by America’s intelligence agencies — featured the now-infamous heading: “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” A few weeks later, on 9/11, Al Qaeda accomplished that goal.
On April 10, 2004, the Bush White House declassified that daily brief — and only that daily brief — in response to pressure from the 9/11 Commission, which was investigating the events leading to the attack. Administration officials dismissed the document’s significance, saying that, despite the jaw-dropping headline, it was only an assessment of Al Qaeda’s history, not a warning of the impending attack. While some critics considered that claim absurd, a close reading of the brief showed that the
argument had some validity.
That is, unless it was read in conjunction with the daily briefs preceding Aug. 6, the ones the Bush administration would not release. While those documents are still not public, I have 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. In other words, the Aug. 6 document, for all of the controversy it provoked, is not nearly as shocking as the briefs that came before it.
More... (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/opinion/the-bush-white-house-was-deaf-to-9-11-warnings.html)
Could the 9/11 attack have been stopped, had the Bush team reacted with urgency to the warnings contained in all of those daily briefs? We can’t ever know. And that may be the most agonizing reality of all.