c/usa · by cm0002@lemdro.id · 7dDeclassified CIA documents show clear warnings to presidents before 9/11 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/previously-classified-911-documents-released-cia-25th-anniversary-atta-rcna59726254 points · 5 comments · view on lemmy.world
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FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 28 pts · 7d
CIA: "Pilots from Saudi Arabia with ties to Iran and Pakistan working with an islamic extremist group planning attack on US via planes."
Bush: "Yeah, ok, pal."
CIA: "The hydroelectric tubes in Iraq look vaguely like missile fuselage sort of if you squint"
Bush: "Get Tillerson and Cheney in here! WERE GOING TO MESS UP MESOPATAMIA!"
Sineljora@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 7d
Bush: “Yeah, I know, my dad had dinner with the bin Ladens last week, and we’re going to evacuate their family members from America when it happens.”
yakko@feddit.uk · 23 pts · 7d
Really hate how much of history has been written, deliberately and otherwise, by the CIA.
Serinus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 7d
We knew Clinton tried to warn W.
baronvonj@piefed.social · 3 pts · 6d
Remember when Clinton was ordering strikes against Al Qaeda and the Republicans were like "stop distracting the public from your blowjob" and then he warned Bush about the impending threat during the transition and Bush ignored it?