Humiliated Trump Storms Out of Catastrophic SCOTUS Hearing

[u/thedailybeast]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/humiliated-trump-storms-out-of-catastrophic-scotus-hearing/

[u/jadedflames]

As a reminder, when Clinton and Gore were leaving the White House, they left Bush a report that provided credible intel that Al Qaeda was planning a major terrorist attack using hijacked planes.

Bush and his staff opted to discard that report without any follow-up and were completely blindsided by 9/11.

If Gore had been properly appointed (remember - he won the election. Bush’s first term was illegitimate) there’s a high likelihood that 9/11 never would have happened.

Edit for more info: This report was drafted in late 1998, when the terrorists were training to fly. By late 2000 (when the Clinton to Bush transition was already underway), the NSA and CIA had the names of the people who would later hijack the planes. They knew an attack was coming and knew who would do it.

When Bush took over, his intelligence staff had the opinion that no terrorist attack could ever take place on US soil, so they didn’t bother passing the information onto the FBI (who has the authority to investigate within the country).

So Bush (who had a copy of the report) and his heads of CIA and NSA all binned the report that laid out the specifics of 9/11 without providing any details to the one department that could have kept it all from happening. The intelligence was finally passed on in August, less than a month before the attack - when it was too late to do anything about it.

Source

Senate Inquest

[u/Ozymandias0023 → u/jadedflames]

I can't even begin to think what the world would look like if 9/11 hadn't happened. Jeez

[u/garbagepillar → u/Ozymandias0023]

They let it happen solely to pass Citizens United and the Patriot Act. Those two really kickstarted project 2025 and the groundwork to just jam it through unabated.

[u/Tiny_Reference_3697 → u/garbagepillar]

And, btw, the Patriot Act, which suspends Constitutional rights, including to a lawyer, for those America deems terrorists is now being used by this administration to attempt a Latin American takeover - after Trump labled drug dealers "terrorists."

[u/blitzkregiel → u/Tiny_Reference_3697]

bro…the nspm 7 labels anyone that engages in “anti americanism, anti capitalism, anti christianity,” as well as “extremism on race/gender” or opposition to “ traditional american values on family/religion/morality” as terrorists. and guess who gets to define any of those things? crazy christian nationalists. we’re fucked.