[codebreaker]

We make these kind of battle write ups all the time but it does show that the administration was dealing with the situation and trying to stay ahead of the game.

No one really thought a plane attack was feasible, I'm sure.

[swarthyguy]

What's so bad about contingency planning? This is a FullCourt press by the mediadems; they've panicked about the Nov elections and want this story to drip drip drip all thorugh the summer.

[My2Cents]

Or, even if feasible, no one knew with any degree of certainty where or when such an attack would occur.

[summer]

What all this backtracking led by the Dems sounds like to me is this: they have already concluded that complaining about GW's photo on the phone with the VP on 9-11 was not an issue that would resonate with voters, so they tossed that out, and instead came up with this new focus, about complaining what GW knew or did not know prior to 9-11. I wish they would instead devote their energies to something like publicly supporting our military and their families, and thinking up ways to make life a little easier for those families now separated by this war. That would be constructive and of interest.

[kaylar]

Well, THAT was weird...I clicked on the thread and got a "this thread has been delted message" the first time, but obviously it's still here. Must be a glitch in my system. Here's the full link to the title story, which is now posted :

U.S. planned for attack on al-Qaida Bush given global assault strategy two days before Sept. 11

[demlosers]

This answers all those conspiracy theorists who jumped to conclusions why the Bush administration had a game plan so quickly. They were going to do something about Al-Qaida after the Clinton administration did nothing to stop them. Remember the Cole, U.S embassy, and Dahran Saudi Arabia bombings?

[finnman69]

Good, this is a 10,000% improvement over the CLinton Administration which had ZERO plans to deal with Al Qaeda.

[OldFriend]

The information that Cheney had the plan ready to roll out was made public soon after the attacks on the eleventh.

[Timesink]

This bit of info that Brokaw is trying to report as some exclusive, was actually made public somewhere around 9/12. Practically every newsmagazine article the next week made note of the irony.

Someone who wants to dig through the FR archives could probably find it.

[FReethesheeples]

Dittos!

Brokaw is spinning it like the Leftist Democrat dervish he is.

[jrlc]

Where was Clintoon's war plan against OBL after our embassys were bombed? How about after the Cole was attacked? Bubba was too busy getting BJs in the Oval Office to care about domestic security. Clinton knew less about the military than Martin Sheen on NBC's "The Left Wing" TV Show.

[goodnesswins]

Lookkeee here....all of this hullabaloo is hiding what the DEMS are doing.....REFUSING to bring the BUDGET up to the floor for a VOTE!!!! (So I hear...)

[takenoprisoner]

God forbid some republican contender might be damaged by this. Geesh, this ain't about party. This is about 'we the people.' This is about our right to know be we conservative or liberal. We have a need to know since "traditionally" terrorists don't target the military now do they? No, they target 'we the people.' Everyone knows this right?

Since it is 'we the people' who are the targets of terrorists, we must demand and insist upon our right to know what our officials in whom we place our trust might know about their activities.

[let freedom sing]

"It was on his desk two days before, and he never got a chance to sign it."