Bush Ignored Warning of al Qaeda Threat Eight Months Before 9/11

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From Capitol Hill Blue

President George W. Bush ignored a memo, written almost eight months before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, that warned the White House al Qaeda represented a threat throughout the Islamic world.

The memo dated Jan. 25, 2001 -- five days after Bush took office -- was an essential feature of last year's hearings into intelligence failures before the attacks on New York and Washington. A copy of the document was posted on the National Security Archive Web site on Thursday.
The memo, from former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke to then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, had been described during the hearings but its full contents had not been disclosed.

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1. The tinfoil hatter in me says

Ignore or LIHOP?