In case you didn't yet know Cheney was recklessly incompetent: Cheney Thought Al Qaeda Was Bluffing.

[kpete]

Dick Cheney would like you to believe that he knows more about protecting the nation from terrorism than anyone else. But he actually knows less.

When presented with an actual terror threat — the one that turned into the 9/11 attacks — Cheney thought al Qaeda was bluffing.


No kidding. This is from The Great War Of Our Time: The CIA’s Fight Against Terrorism, a new book by former acting CIA director Mike Morell:

The threat reporting continued (in the spring and summer of 2001)— other pieces were titled “Bin Ladin Attacks May Be Imminent” and “Bin Ladin Planning High-Profile Attacks” — but I sensed some skepticism about it. The vice president one morning asked me whether all this threat reporting might not be deception on the part of al Qa‘ida — purposely designed to get our attention and to get us to needlessly expend resources in response.

According to Morell, who was then in charge of the daily presidential intelligence briefing, the CIA felt they then needed to produce a report titled “UBL (Usama bin Laden) Threats Are Real.”

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UBL Threats Are Real. Take a minute and think about that. Think about what would have happened on the afternoon of September 11, 2001 if Americans had known that had been Cheney’s attitude just a few months before. Think about how, if he’d been a Democrat, that would have defined liberals as weak, cowardly children for the next 50 years.

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https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/19/cia-tell-bush-cheney-al-qaeda-threats-real/
http://thegreatwarofourtime.com/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/19/1385971/-Cheney-Thought-Al-Qaeda-Was-Bluffing

[tblue37]

1. Fifth rec--to the greatest page! nt

[genxlib]

2. I don't get it.

Is this the same guy who stated the 1% doctrine which said he would take military action against any Country who had a 1% of gaining wmd to use against us. Which if you do the math, it means we would start 99 useless wars for every supposedly necessary one.

So he went from grossly under-reacting to grossly over-reacting.

The real irony is that he had it almost right to begin with. They were just trying to get us to needlessly spend resources in response.

Which we did in spades.

Thanks Dick

[Martin Eden]

5. They needed a "new Pearl Harbor" to implement their PNAC agenda

LIHOP

[Enthusiast]

3. Cheney didn't think al Qaeda was bluffing. PNAC wanted the attacks.

[AwakeAtLast]

4. This is chilling to the bone.

Nice to know my family was thrown to the wolves due to his skepticism.

He LIHOP.

[Octafish]

6. Bush knew and Cheney planned it.

A couple examples from DU2.