Rice/Tenet Meeting: 9/11 Cover-Up
(Guest Post by Big Tent Democrat)
John Aravosis notes E&P's essential post on the explosive revelation in Woodward's new book:
Tenet called Condoleezza Rice, then national security adviser. " For months," Woodward writes, "Tenet had been pressing Rice to set a clear counterterrorism policy... that would give the CIA stronger authority to conduct covert action against bin Laden.... Tenet and Black hoped to convey the depth of their anxiety and get Rice to kick-start the government into immediate action.
"Tenet had been having difficulty getting traction on an immediate bin Laden action plan, in part because Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld had questioned all the intelligence, asking: Could it all be a grand deception? "
. . . The result? "Tenet and Black felt they were not getting though to Rice. She was polite, but they felt the brush-off . President Bush had said he didn't want to swat at flies." "Tenet left the meeting feeling frustrated. Though Rice had given them a fair hearing, no immediate action meant great risk. Black felt the decision to just keep planning was a sustained policy failure. Rice and the Bush team had been in hibernation too long....
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