[SpamCop-Social] Re: Should we be surprised?

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Heidi wrote:
> Spamvireslayer wrote:
> 
>> http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=609895
>> Bush team tried to suppress pre-9/11 report into al-Qa'ida
>> Federal officials were repeatedly warned in the months before the 11 
>> September 2001
>> terror attacks that Osama bin Laden and al-Qa'ida were planning 
>> aircraft hijackings
>> and suicide attacks, according to a new report that the Bush 
>> administration has been
>> suppressing.
>>
>> Critics say the new information undermines the government's claim that 
>> intelligence
>> about al-Qa'ida's ambitions was "historical" in nature.
>>
>> Kristin Bretweiser, whose husband was killed in the World Trade 
>> Centre, said
>> yesterday the newly released details undermined testimony from 
>> Condoleezza Rice, the
>> former national security adviser, who told the commission that 
>> information about
>> al-Qa'ida's threats seen by the administration was "historical in 
>> nature".
>>
>> She told The Independent: "There were 52 threats that were mentioned. 
>> These were
>> present threats - they were not historical. There were steps that 
>> could have been
>> taken. Marshals could have been put on planes that spring. Condoleezza 
>> Rice's
>> testimony is undermined." To the consternation of members of the 
>> commission who
>> published the original report last year, the administration has been 
>> blocking the
>> release of the latest information. An unclassified copy of this 
>> additional appendix
>> was passed to the National Archives two weeks ago
>>
>>
>>