The Cold Hard Facts & A Die-Hard Liar on 9/11

"President Bush and Vice President Cheney have publicly stated that the top-secret domestic spying program Bush authorized in 2002 could have thwarted the 9/11 attacks had the controversial, and possibly illegal, measure been in effect prior to the terrorist strike on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Bush's and Cheney's comments have gone virtually unchallenged by reporters covering the spying story and by a majority of Democratic lawmakers critical of the issue. However, the reality is much different from what Bush and Cheney would have you believe. The fact of the matter is that the Bush administration ignored hard evidence from its top intelligence officials between April and September of 2001 about an impending attack by al-Qaeda on US soil. There's no chance that the National Security Agency's domestic wiretapping initiative would have saved the lives of 3,000 American citizens if an intelligence memo titled "Bin Laden determined to attack inside US" that President Bush received a month before 9/11 couldn't move Bush to take such threats seriously".

The Pathologically Lying George Bush When George Bush was asked what he was doing when he first heard about 9/11 here's what he said in a nationally televised event. Keep in mind, this was less than three months after 9/11; "I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower—the TV was obviously on. And I used to fly, myself, and I said, well, there's one terrible pilot. I said, it must have been a horrible accident. But I was whisked off there, I didn't have much time to think about it." [House, 12/4/01] So, what's wrong with that reply you ask? Nothing actually, it just shows that he's a pathological liar because there was no live video of the first plane that attacked the WTC and no video was released of it until over 24 hours later. That's what you call being a pathological liar, folks. It's a very common trait among Republicans.