Liberal Repercussion

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From a Classified CIA Assessment of 9/11

Congress' 9/11 report quotes from a CIA document that remains classified to this day. Among the mountains of still-secret material that the investigative staff read was "The 11 September Attacks: A Preliminary Assessment," dated 19 November 2001, and written by the CIA. Here's the clinching sentence from this Agency report:

We do not know the process by which Bin Ladin and his lieutenants decided to hijack planes with the idea of flying them into buildings in the United States, but the idea of hijacking planes for suicide attacks had long been current in jihadist circles.

So we have the CIA admitting that hijacking passenger jets and ramming them into buildings had been a goal of Islamic terrorists for a long time. Yet last week we had Condoleezza Rice--among others--repeating her lie that nobody ever had the foggiest notion that hijacked planes could be used as weapons. Why, if only such an inconceivable, outlandish concept had been known to the government, well, then they could've done something to prevent it. But as this CIA report reveals, the concept was floating around for years. What's your excuse now, Condi?

[The above quotation is on page 214 of Congress' 9/11 report]

posted by Rei Toei @ 10:27 p.m.