When it smells or sounds like Bushit chances are it is Bushit:
WASHINGTON — Several U.S. intelligence officials are playing down the
relative importance of an alleged al-Qaida plot to strike the West Coast
after Sept. 11, 2001, cited by President Bush Thursday in defense of his
campaign against terrorism.Bush, under pressure from Congress, offered for the first time a vivid
account of what he said was the foiled plot to crash a hijacked commercial
airliner into a Los Angeles skyscraper.Bush said four Southeast Asians who met with Osama bin Laden in
Afghanistan in October 2001 were taught how to use shoe bombs to blow open a
cockpit door and steer a plane into the Library Tower, the tallest building
on the West Coast. But Asian authorities captured the four first, he said.The intelligence officials, who declined to be identified because they
did not want to criticize the White House publicly, said there is deep
disagreement within the intelligence community over the seriousness of the
scheme to attack the 73-story building and whether it was ever much more
than talk.Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism specialist with the Rand Corp., said Bush’s
account still leaves key questions unanswered.
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While I am sitting here listening to the hearings on Katrina, I am also
wondering something that could be very important. Placing blame on local
officials has been a key strategy of this administration. They are saying that
local officials didn’t prepare or respond properly. If this attack would have
happened then would we hear the same argument? I say this because L.A. officials
have said they were never told of any such planned attack. How can we blame
local officials for lack of planning when the federal government is not willing
to share information with them?
The events around this “foiled terror plot” sure doesn’t seem consistent with
other arguments put out there by the administration.