White House Relents Somewhat (CBS quotes Washington Post as saying Pres. Bush was informed in 1998!)

CBS News ^ | May 18th, 2002 | Staff

[BJClinton]

By the time I had cut-n-pasted the article they had corrected it. But the article is still quite loaded. They don't even mention Clinton was the President for most of this time frame until the very end. I'm still searching for the Washington Post error.

[uncbob]

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.

Bush wasn't president in 1998 Clinton was

[GretchenEE]

CLINTON CLINTON CLINTON CLINTON CLINTON

Who do we blame?

Once more, folks:

CLINTON
DIVERTED AND STUPEFIED AT THE HELM
COUNTING HIS CHINESE COINS DAY BY DAY

[Jeff Chandler]

I wish Bush would abondon his "new tone" and b!+(h-slap those lying SOB's over this. Use this opportunity to show the American sheeple what they really are. I wish 50 dollar bills grew on vines, too.

[Betteboop]

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.

With all due respects, the original article did not say "President Bush," but rather, "the President." They conveniently leave out Clinton's name so that the association is with Bush.

Can anyone say: "media bias????"

[Izzy Dunne]

BREAKING NEWS: The Washington Post will report in its Sunday edition that President Bush and his Attorney General John Ashcroft were indeed behind the massacre at Waco on April 19, 1993. Sources within the Bush administration have told the Wash. Post that they did it because "those folks were nuts".

[livius]

You mentioned cut-and-paste. Was the bit about Bush a direct quote from the article, or did it get transformed in the cutting and pasting?

If it was a direct quote, didn't they know that Bush wasn't President in 1998? Didn't they know who was?

[BJClinton]

Actually, the original report stated exactly what I cut-n-pasted. They have since changed it to what's on the page now. I'm still digging around to see if they've archived it anywhere.

[goodnesswins]

We should post "CLYMER ALERTS".......for these type of things

[BJClinton]

Direct cut-n-paste. They've changed their website. It was probably a typo, they were quoting a WP article. Perhaps a Freudian slip?

[CyberAnt]

The dumbing down of America!! Compliments of the liberal way of teaching our children nothing!!

[Betteboop]

If that's so, they are utterly shameless!!!!!

[gov_bean_ counter]

Mr. Clinton ... said he knew about the dangerous potential of bin Laden, but discounted the suggestion that the 1999 analysis should have alerted his administration to the possibility of a terrorist attack on the scale of the September 11 attacks.

"That has nothing to do with intelligence," Mr. Clinton told the Associated Press while in Hawaii on a two-day stopover on the way to East Timor. "All that says is they used public sources to speculate on what bin Laden might do. That doesn't have anything to do with what the intelligence people, the CIA or the FBI, tell the administration."

The implications of this line of thinking are chilling. Does anyone think that a position paper on national security threats contracted by intel agencies would only use information in the public domain? These folks get high level clearances and see it all to make their threat assessments. If Clinton had ever met with his National Security team he may have understood this.

[MrRepublic]

The insipid enemy continues his spite-filled attacks. Flee from the donkey! Flee! --- Or just point out these stupid errors and prove to your doubting friends what really is going on in our media. Am I the only who finds it humorous when media pinheads call Bush & Co. 'corrupt'? I sure hope not...

[rintense]

Exactly! Talk about misplaced modifiers. Sheesh. And these are supposed to be reporters.

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

You are correct that this is loaded. First the Washington Post states that they learned that in '98 President Bush was given a top secret report.

Do they mean former President Bush? Why would the then Governor Bush, who may not have even announced he was running for President have been given a top secret report? I could see his father getting one for 2 reasons, 1. The first President Bush had been President, and 2. The first President Bush had been in charge of the CIA.

Something else I noticed was a place where they talked about intelligence that indicated that Al Queada were planning on flying planes loaded with explosives into buildings somehow got turned into, Bush knew that suicide bombers were going to hijack planes and fly them into buildings. The first sentence I would have thought might mean use small planes with lots of explosives, as oppossed to hijacked planes.

Hindsight is 20/20. Until September 11th I never would have thought that the fuel from a jumbo jet would be used as a missile at a building.

[BJClinton]

...and prove to your doubting friends what really is going on in our media.

That's how this started. A Dim friend of mine sent me an email with the link saying "See! He let all of those Americans die for his political career." Or some nonsense like that. I pointed out that error but before I could post it to FR they'd corrected that error.

[OldFriend]

With allllll due respect the original article, which has now been corrected, did indeed refer to President Bush in 1998...........

[TomGuy]

The editor responsible for letting this garbled article ever get published needs to return to school:

The Washington Post reports that a 1998 memo to the president was entitled, “Bin Laden Determined To Strike In U.S” and focused mainly on past efforts by the alleged terrorist mastermind to infiltrate the U.S. and hit targets here.

The document, known as the President's Daily Briefing, underscored that bin Laden and his followers hoped to "bring the fight to America," in part as retaliation for U.S. missile strikes on al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan in 1998, the Post quotes knowledgeable sources as saying.

Mr. Bush had specifically asked for an intelligence analysis of possible al Qaeda attacks within the U.S., because most of the information presented to him over the summer about al Qaeda focused on threats against U.S. targets overseas, sources told the Post.

The writer appears to be mixing dates relevant to the previous administration in with references to the current administration. Is this to confuse or imply?

[DrDavid]

Perhaps the media could use an intellegence department. They certainly don't seem to have any!