George W. Bush Explains Slow Reaction To September 11 Attacks

"My first reaction was anger. Who the hell would do that to America?"

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After being told just a few weeks earlier, "Osama Bin Laden determined to strike in the US" by his CIA briefers, after being warned by terrorism czar Richard Clarke and CIA director George Tenet of the imminent danger Al Qaeda posed, after being briefed on the increased risk assessment by the intelligen­ce community and what they were hearing ("somethin­g big for the anniversar­y of the first WTC bombing"), Bush's first reaction was "Who the hell would do that to America?"?

Politician­s both in and out of government­, from George Tenet to Bill Clinton, have said that as soon as they heard about the first plane hitting the WTC on 9/11/01, they knew it was the work of Osama Bin Laden.

When Republican tr0//s talk about the danger of having an "inexperie­nced president"­, this should be their gold standard.
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