[white trash redneck]

The Washington Post said Saturday that a top-secret briefing memo presented to President Bush in 1998

Now let's think - what man was president in 1998, received that top-secret briefing, and is responsible for dropping whatever ball was dropped?

[sjeann]

Wow! Good catch! They are really scared!

[BrooklynGOP]

Nope, no bias in the media.. noooooooooooooope.

[Ross Amann]

The Media thinks that people will believe anything they say - if they say it often enough. Bush was definitely not President in 1998; wasn't Martin Sheen President then?

[AmishDude]

I was really ticked that my thread on the same topic got deleted and then I saw you beat me by a minute. Quick work, moderator!

[sjeann]

I really think this whole thing is a set up so when the dots start connecting back to the Clinton administration, they can say- oh, they are both equally to blame, lets move on now and try to fix the problem.

[nycgal]

I've emailed CBS...not that it will make a difference.

[linn37]

shame on Governor Bush for not reading the security releases.

[angkor]

The media frenzy is so illogical that its almost pointless to note this, but the "plane packed with C4 or Semtex" was likely considered to be a pilotless plane (remote controlled) or possibly a private plane with a suicide bomber.

In no way, shape, or form does the Clinton-era report envision a commerical aircraft converted into a flying fuel-bomb.

I guess the media is delighted that there are no actual facts here, and the little that's available can be twisted to their perverse, anti-American agenda.

Guess we'll have to wait for the next attack to get the attention of the Beltway scumbags.

[rohry]

Send them e-mails:

Go to this link a click on Feedback

[#3Fan]

The Washington Post said Saturday that a top-secret briefing memo presented to President Bush in 1998 focused on efforts by Osama bin Laden to strike at targets in the U.S.

I met a girl last month that was preparing for her last two years to get a masters in political science. I was amazed at her stupidity about politics and it's no surprise to me that these people, including the people at CBS, have already forgotten that Bush didn't take office until 2001.

[airedale]

Besides the obvious problem with the report being presented to the former President which is just sloppiness on the part of CBS In writing this article you should also have explained what happens to all files, paperwork, hardisks and other material when an administration changes especially from one part to another. When a new administration takes over their isn't a single scrap of paper with information on it in the WH or Old Executive Building. They start from scratch. Not only that but a lot of the senior positions (not only the top jobs) are vacant and when they get filled either temporarily or permanently those taking the jobs spend most of their time getting up to speed on current issues not reports from 2 years prior to the change in administration unless someone in the permanent civil service or executive service makes sure that they see it.

Not to make the above point when writing or broadcasting about this report grossly distorts the truth of the story as reported turning it into a lie by omission. It's not like the media doesn't know what happens when their is a change in administration.

The only way the new administration would know about the report is if someone in the permanent bureaucracy or a Clinton hold over saw that they got it. The obvious person to see that they got this "important" report would be the head of the CIA. Of course he prioritized the older material that they needed to see. Without knowing what was shown to them and what wasn't we have no way of knowing whether the priorities were correct. My guess is that this report didn't and shouldn't have made the list of things that the new administration needed to see.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The Washington Post said Saturday that a top-secret briefing memo presented to President Bush in 1998

Now let's think - what man was president in 1998, received that top-secret briefing, and is responsible for dropping whatever ball was dropped?

What a convenient misprint...

The compost has reached a new low.

I bet that there is a plaque on their cafeteria wall that reads: "It's the agenda, stupid"

[dawn53]

Now everyone will know that Bernie was right!

[Lockbox]

Napoleon spoke of the "press as the seventh great power." Its significance became politically visible with the beginning of the French Revolution, and maintained its position for the entirety of the 19th Century. The century's politics were largely determined by the press. One can hardly imagine or explain the major historical events between 1800 and 1900 without considering the powerful influence of journalism.

The radio will be for the Twentieth Century what the press was for the Nineteenth. With the appropriate change, one can apply Napoleon's phrase to our age, speaking of the radio as the eighth great power. Its discovery and application are of truly revolutionary significance for contemporary community life. Future generations may conclude that the radio had as great an intellectual and spiritual impact on the masses as the printing press had before the beginning of the Reformation.

The November Regime [the Nazi term for the Weimar Republic] was not able to understand the full significance of the radio. Even those who claimed to have awakened the people and gotten them involved in practical politics were without exception almost blind to the possibilities of this modern method of influencing the masses.

At best, they saw it as an easy way to distract the masses from the difficulties of our national and social life through games and entertainment. Only reluctantly did they think of using radio for political purposes. As in all other things, they viewed radio through the mildew of an ostensible objectivity. They left the radio and its development to its technical and administrative experts, limiting their own use of it for partisan purposes to times of particular domestic crises.

It goes without saying that the National Socialist revolution, which is modern and intent on action, as well as the popular upheaval we have led, must change abstract and lifeless methods in the radio. The old regime was content simply to fill empty offices or change the faces, without however changing the spirit and content of public life. We on the other hand intend a principled transformation in the worldview of our entire society, a revolution of the greatest possible extent that will leave nothing out, changing the life of our nation in every regard.

This process, which has been visible to the layman in the last six months, was naturally not random. It was systematically prepared and organized. We have used our power in the last six months to carry out this transformation. We spent the period before 30 January in winning power, having then the same goals that we have carried out in the six months since we took power.

It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio and the airplane. It is no exaggeration to say that the German revolution, at least in the form it took, would have been impossible without the airplane and the radio.

by Joseph Goebbels - "Der Rundfunk als achte Großmacht," Signale der neuen Zeit. 25 ausgewählte Reden von Dr. Joseph Goebbels (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP., 1938), pp. 197-207.

[metesky]

I went over to their site, rubbed my eyes three times and it was still there. 1998!

Don't they remember that it's the smart half of the population that has web access?

1998! What an imbesile, what an ultra maroon!

[MeekOneGOP]

The Washington Post said Saturday that a top-secret briefing memo presented to
President Bush in 1998 focused on efforts by Osama bin Laden to strike at targets in the U.S.
Geez, Louise!

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my ping list!. . .don't be shy.

[Anamensis]

Bizarre. Not that I don't trust you, but I double checked to make sure it wasn't some sort of mistake. But no, no mistake. There it is on the CBS Evening News page, "The Washington Post said Saturday that a top-secret briefing memo presented to President Bush in 1998 focused on efforts by Osama bin Laden to strike at targets in the U.S. "

I couldn't believe it. I e-mailed them, but... wow.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Let's hope that reporter's teacher corrects her middle school class on who was President in 1998 before school lets out for the summer.

[dawn53]

Just told my 14 year old to read the article on the CBS page. He read the third paragrah and started laughing.

So if a 14 year old can pick out an obvious mistake, what about the editors of the website.

[maxwellp]

The Washington Post article is extremely confusing or the author is extremely dumb if he's not aware that the President of the USA in 1998 was Clinton.