[DrLiberty]

Yet another crack in the dam of the government's credibility. What say ye now, apologists?

[tet68]

You want me to believe anything that comes out of Egypt?

Get a grip!

[July 4th]

Honestly...who cares? Last I checked, the towers were still collapsed.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

So you are aligning yourself with Mubarak via Drudge. Time to renounce your citizenship, if you have one.

[rintense]

Of course it's the Bush Administration's fault. The Clinton Admin didn't know anything about this before Bush was elected. /sarcasm

[Bogey78O]

I told Bush himself that there were 20 hijackers that were planning on destroying the WTC, the Pentagon, and the White House. I gave them names, numbers and plan of attack. It's true. I swear it on Bill Clinton's grave. I got it all from a conversation I picked up over a set of tin can telephones.

[mikeIII]

Yet another crack in the dam of the government's credibility. What say ye now, apologists?

WTH do you mean by that? What credibility does Egypt have?

[Irene Adler]

Knowing "something" bad might be gonna happen, sometime. What good does that do? It doesn't really help since the number of possible targets is so huge and varied as are the different kinds of possible attacks. Warnings like this circulate around all the time, anyway.

I think people generally know that and that's why Bush's ratings have not suffered.

[Sans-Culotte]

The Egyptian president said his intelligence chiefs believed, based on the agent's information, that "something is going to happen in the U.S." or "to the United States, maybe inside the U.S., maybe in an airplane, maybe in embassies" outside the United States. "We couldn't know, we tried to know where, but this information" never reached them.

"Something was going to happen", eh? Man, it doesn't get any more specific than that!

/ sarcasm

[SamAdams76]

So the government got a warning that a terrorist plot was in the final stages a week before 9/11. What did you expect Bush to do, shut down the entire country?

[max_rpf]

Careful of the spin on this one...

"We didn't know that such a thing could take place," he said, referring to the Sept. 11 attacks. "We thought it was an embassy, an airplane, something, the usual thing."

This was just part of the 'chatter' that was heard throughout the summer. Timing is everything. The problem is what the press/RATS try to do with this. I have a feeling that Hosni was trying to show how Egypt is/was helping the US. The NY times is even a little apprehensive playing politics with this one... Drudge should stop trying to break into the National Enq's business.

[dalebert]

Hind sight is always 2020. I don't think you can claim a loose, vague memo would have prevented anything. I think the Clinton/Jackson media are having a feild day in an attempt to get votes for Nov.2002.

[WoofDog123]

Mr. Liberty,

What, if you received that warning that something was coming, maybe in the u.s. or against a u.s. embassy, would you have done? How could it have prevented the attacks?

The terrorists had valid ID, may not have even carried the box cutters on, the source you take at face value says that there was no indication of the magnitude or nature of the attacks...

Do you believe, with NON-SPECIFIC knowledge of a pending attack sometime somewhere somehow, that anything could actually have been done to prevent this?

[McGavin999]

Ah, he warned that something BIG was up. I wonder why we didn't guess what it was?

Well, here's your chance. We've been warned again that Al Qaeda is planning something BIG in the weeks ahead. Now, tell us what it is or it will all be YOUR fault when it happens. After all, you've been warned.

[A Navy Vet]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, everybody warned eveybody about imminent attacks on America. Since we didn't know the place, date, or time, what were we suppose to do? Shut the country down? Sh&t happens! Sometimes you just can't avoid getting hit. We are an open country, there are too many easily accessible targets, and the prior administration emasculated the FBI. Other than the pandering immigration policies, I like what I'm seeing as far as restructuring.

[Torie]

Generalized warnings are rather useless, unless investigation turns up something further. The only red meat so far is this passion play is that the CIA screwed up in not sharing its information with the FBI regarding those two perps. That bears investigation, and reorganization, which I think has occurred.

[Nick Danger]

Yet another crack in the dam of the government's credibility. What say ye now, apologists?

Are you serious? Do you think that having advance knowledge that al Q'aida was "in the advance stages of executing a significant operation against an American target" would have enabled you to do anything to prevent what happened?

What the Hell happened to everybody's brains that makes them think that these "the boogie man is coming but we know not where" warnings were worth any more on 9/10 than when we hear similar warnings now? What are we supposed to do, stay in bed all day every time some Islamic cleric says, "Boo"?

I am up-to-here with people blaming anybody but Osama bin Laden and his flying monkeys for what happened. I am real clear on who did this. If you're not, buy a clue.

[dixiechick2000]

"Nother li'l tidbit...

"Mr. Mubarak cited the warning as evidence that Egypt has become an increasingly valuable intelligence partner to the United States in the war against terrorism, especially since Sept. 11. It seemed possible he was seeking to burnish Egypt's credentials, which have been questioned in Congress, in advance of his visit to Washington this week."

Hmmmmm...

[henbane]

From NYT article:Mr. Mubarak said his intelligence officials had no indication what the target would be and had no idea of the magnitude of the coming attack.

"We didn't know that such a thing could take place," he said, referring to the Sept. 11 attacks. "We thought it was an embassy, an airplane, something, the usual thing."

Did you even bother to click on Drudge's NYT link and actually read the complete article?

Or did you simply jump real fast at the chance to take a cheapshot at the President?

No matter what motivated you to post a thread like this--with your invidious opening comment--it sure looks like you bit hard on a big chunk of Drudge's garbage-bait--the kind that Matt loves to troll out there whenever he gets a chance to slam Bush.

BTW, SamAdams76 and many other Freepers are still waiting for your answer to his question in #25.

[spetznaz]

See my post. # 143.

[Let's Roll]

I say it's Drudge, it's Egypt and it's already being denied.