Newly Found Document Indicates Bush Administration Knew Repeat of 9/11 Unlikely by 2003
The title of a 2003 Senior Executive Intelligence Brief (SEIB) item indicates that by late 2003 the CIA had concluded it would be hard for al-Qaeda to pull off another 9/11. The item was entitled “Terrorism Complexities Make Repeating September 11 Difficult” and was circulated to top policy officials on December 16, 2003.
The precise circulation of SEIBs varied from administration to administration, but they were usually seen by officials such ...
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this is an important story- the Bush Administration was continually hyping the 'Al Qaeda/Bin Laden' boogeyman spectre of another 9/11, even while their own CIA, which was torturing prisoners, possibly IN ORDER TO extract false confessions/false info on plots, was telling them another 9/11 was extremely unlikely. Fear and war mongering Democrats and Republicans need to be called out on this. Tom Ridge needs to be questioned about this as well, as the article points out- plus, he just came out with a book in which he's said some terror alerts were bogus.