The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 11:05 am Post subject: Homeland Security Alerts vs Challenges to Bush |
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Keith Oberman - seen him on TV and I am not impressed, but still - cites 13 instances in which negative news reports about the Bush administration coincided with upward mobility in the Homeland Security Alert Status. Not scientific - Oberman never wears a lab coat, unlike the guys and gals CSI - but it's an interesting read ...
Bush could only refer to 10 instances of terror attacks that his govt had avoided, and several of those are in dispute.
The last three were not included in the broadcast, he says, due to time constraints. I think they are the three most interesting :
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Number Eleven:
October 22nd, 2004. After weeks of Administration insistence that there are terrorist plans to disrupt the elections, FBI, Law Enforcement, and other U.S. Intelligence agencies report they have found no direct evidence of any plot. More over, they say, a key CIA source who had claimed knowledge of the plot, has been discredited.
October 29, 2004. Seven days later - four days before the Presidential election - the first supposedly new, datable tape of Osama Bin Laden since December 2001 is aired on the Al-Jazeera Network. A Bush-Cheney campaign official anonymously tells the New York Daily News that from his campaign��s point of view, the tape is quote ��a little gift.��
Number Twelve:
May 5th, 2005. 88 members of the United States House of Representatives send a letter to President Bush demanding an investigation of the so-called ��Downing Street Memo�� - a British document which describes purported American desire dating to 2002 to "fix" the evidence to fit the charges against Iraq. In Iraq over the following weekend, car bombings escalate. On the 11th, more than 75 Iraqis are killed in one.
May 11th, 2005. Later that day, an instructor and student pilot violate restricted airspace in Washington D.C. It is an event that happens hundreds of times a year, but this time the plane gets to within three miles of the White House. The Capitol is evacuated; Vice President Cheney, the First Lady, and Nancy Reagan are all rushed to secure locations. The President, biking through woods, is not immediately notified.
Number Thirteen:
June 26th, 2005. A Gallup poll suggests that 61 percent of the American public believes the President does not have a plan in Iraq. On the 28th, Mr. Bush speaks to the nation from Fort Bragg: "We fight today because terrorists want to attack our country and kill our citizens, and Iraq is where they are making their stand. So we'll fight them there, we'll fight them across the world, and we will stay in the fight until the fight is won."
June 29th 2005. The next day, another private pilot veers into restricted airspace, the Capitol is again evacuated, and this time, so is the President. |
Read the whole thing. Makes think once or twice. |
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