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Old 04-17-2004, 03:57 PM   #26
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Quote:
Originally posted by John D Harris:
You maybe correct, but a couple of weeks ago this was the memo that Mr Clarke supposibly warned the Bush WhiteHouse about Al Quada attacks or so it was reported. Or RB-V may have been refering to the memo writen by the 9/11 commision committee member Jammie Garrara(sp?) when she was an AAG.
Here is part of the transcript from that hearing:

Quote:
Originally spoken by Ben-Veniste:
I think the individual who produced this PDB and her supervisor are entitled to a debt of gratitude for attempting to bring to the attention of the president of the United States the possibility -- and given all the information we knew -- that despite indications leading to the notion that this incredible threat level that we were experiencing in the summer of 2001 leading to the horrific, dramatic, horrendous -- whatever adjective you want to use because there were many employed -- spectacular attack by bin Laden might well occur in the United States -- to me is extraordinary.

She was prescient. She was right.
The full 9/11 Commission Transcript: George Tenet is here.
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