On 7th Anniversary Of Attacks, White House Claims Bin Laden Was Not The ‘Mastermind’ of Sept. 11
On 7th Anniversary Of Attacks, White House Claims Bin Laden Was Not The ‘Mastermind’ of Sept. 11
Tomorrow marks the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. In a press conference today, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Dana Perino about the administration’s ongoing efforts to find Osama bin Laden, calling him the “mastermind” of 9/11. Perino interrupted the reporter, claiming bin Laden was not the true “mastermind” of the attacks:
Q But Osama bin Laden is the one that — you keep talking about his lieutenants, and, yes, they are very important, but Osama bin Laden was the mastermind of 9/11 –
PERINO: No, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the mastermind of 9/11, and he’s sitting in jail right now.
Watch it:
Perino seems to be attempting to justify the White House’s failure to catch bin Laden by suggesting he was not the “mastermind.” But in September 2006, former press secretary Tony Snow stated:
Osama bin Laden, mastermind of September 11th, the person that many people talk about and still have concerns about, calls this fight, the fight in Iraq, “the third world war.”
While Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has admitted to being the “architect” of 9/11, bin Laden was not inconsequential; he approved and executed the attacks. KSM in fact, brought the idea to bin Laden, who according to the 9/11 Commission, “wanted to hit the White House, Pentagon and U.S. Capitol,” not just the World Trade Center.
Perino suggested that it would take “superpowers” to catch bin Laden. “So there are human limitations to any — this is not the movies, we don’t have superpowers,” she said. It didn’t, however, take “superpowers” to capture bin Laden at Tora Bora in late 2001, where he escaped in part because of a lack of troops.
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Remember, bin Laden is no longer the bogeyman for the Republicans to use to try and scare us… He’s outlived his usefulness….
September 10th, 2008 at 8:10 pmAre they effing kidding? Are they saying that we didn’t invade two separate sovereign nations with the expressed intent of getting Bin Laden, his associates, and any who supported him, “dead or alive”?
September 10th, 2008 at 8:11 pmPerino suggested that it would take “superpowers” to catch bin Laden. “So there are human limitations to any — this is not the movies, we don’t have superpowers,” she said.
Hey trolls
Want to keep blaming Clinton for Osama still being free ?
September 10th, 2008 at 8:18 pmOh, Dana, we only thought you failed near-modern history (Bay of Pigs).
Look out, your blatant lying is showing.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:20 pmGates of Hell! Gates of Hell.
No, we’re not talking about Microsoft…
September 10th, 2008 at 8:20 pmDon’t worry, Dana, Obama will get him.
Obama/Biden 2008
September 10th, 2008 at 8:22 pmWe have always been at war with Eurasia.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:22 pmI’m sure for a gang of mouth-breathing mental retards, performing simple arithmetic must seem like a “superpower”.
No wonder they haven’t been able to figure any of this out:
http://www.asecondlookatthesaudis.com
September 10th, 2008 at 8:27 pmPerino suggested that it would take “superpowers” to catch bin Laden. “So there are human limitations to any — this is not the movies, we don’t have superpowers,” she said.
Cue the cut-away shot of McDepends claiming he’s Jack Bauer on FAUX Noise …………
September 10th, 2008 at 8:28 pmAt then end, Perino says we’re going “after him as well.” (?!@#$$%)
Like he wasn’t the initial target in the first place? Isn’t that the story that the Bush Admin. sold us on?
Not to mention our pursuit and eventual capture of Saddam Hussein when in reality he had nothing to do with anything.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:29 pmWhen are we going to get reporters that will ask the right questions for the public?
September 10th, 2008 at 8:31 pmOctober surprise is rumored to be the arrest of Bin Laden.
As if, but IF so, another in a long line of using terrorists for political gain by the Repukes.
What else would you expect from Shrub’s family friends in Saudi Arabia?
September 10th, 2008 at 8:32 pmMeanwhile, back at the ranch:
Pentagon official: Afghan strategy not working
No shit, Sherlock…
September 10th, 2008 at 8:33 pmEven the FBI lists “Usama Bin Laden” as the “Most Wanted Terrorist.”
September 10th, 2008 at 8:34 pmAnd in conclusion we are now questioning Daffy Duck, aka superhero Duck Dodgers, for what he knows about OBL. So far we have only gotten leads for a Porky ‘lipstick’ Pig. Eba da dee, that’s all folks.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:35 pmSo Osama Bin Laden is Scooter Libby?
September 10th, 2008 at 8:36 pmGuilty, but he walks?
And, what super powers did we need to catch the one-eyed Mullah Omar, who escaped capture by the US by riding off on a bicycle?
September 10th, 2008 at 8:36 pmWell, if that’s true, McStain will be going to hell for no reason!
Then again, given his age, he’s probably not going to be jumping the gun by much.
PEACE
September 10th, 2008 at 8:40 pmJohn Kerry Says:
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No shit!! This is old news libs!! Bin Laden may have finance it but the Sheik was the mastermind and this was reported YEARS ago!!
What is this?? Golden oldies night on lib blogs????
September 10th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
How exactly did you get the doctor to cover your lobotomy scars ?
September 10th, 2008 at 8:42 pmOops, sounds like the troll is constipated. Well, we know they are all full of shit anyway.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:43 pmSet the Way-Back Machine to October 12, 2001:
(These superpowers?)
“We’ll smoke him out of his cave, and we’ll get him eventually,” Bush said.
The president also portrayed himself as someone with little patience for diplomatic niceties and mere words.
“I’m more interested in action and results. And if you want to join the campaign against terror,” he said to other countries, “all I ask is results.”
Bush said he was “confident that the al-Qaida organization is moving around Afghanistan. They think they might find safe haven. Not if we think they’re there. And we’ve got them on the run.”
September 10th, 2008 at 8:44 pmI suspect the bin Laden family member stakeholders in the Carlisle Group told Pappy Bush to back off.
PEACE
September 10th, 2008 at 8:44 pmUNBELIEVABLE…..STRAIGHT OUT ORWELL’S 1984
THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH IS SPINNING MORE AND MORE DOUBLETHINK
September 10th, 2008 at 8:47 pmJohn Kerry is so weak that a single lame post exhausts him. Nite-nite John…
September 10th, 2008 at 8:56 pmShe just contradicted herself. Perino seems very defensive and nervous after this question. Spencers mom is right, the Bush family and the Bin Laden family have too much partnership to allow their buddy Osama be captured.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:58 pmOh jeeb’s… It’s come to this? Blondie’s going to work this angle?
September 10th, 2008 at 9:08 pmI had a scary thought. Before a World Court, Chimpy will argue that he “didn’t mastermind the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan”, he just, “enlisted his lieutenants” to do it for him.
September 10th, 2008 at 9:14 pmobviously, Dana? Hmmmmm… where have I heard that smug, condescending tone before? Oh yeah! The new hockey mom, almost Miss Alaska, sportscaster/spokesperson/whatever Vice Presidential wannabe! Lady Palin!
Snort… I have to LOL every time I say or type Miss Alaska runner up…
christ.
September 10th, 2008 at 9:15 pmHow many here really believed Osama was the mastermind? I was we have a real 9/11 investigation. But on the other hand could America handle the truth?
September 10th, 2008 at 9:15 pmPerino’s certainly no superintellect
September 10th, 2008 at 9:29 pmDamn, I just got whiplash on that reversal.
How long before it’s Iran who did it? The 9/11 “tribute” shown at the RNC was the groundwork to shift blame to Iran and start yet another war.
McCain: There will be more wars.
Swell.
September 10th, 2008 at 9:35 pmSo tell us something most heinous troll stealing the name of an actual war hero. Didn’t your candidate say recently he was going to follow bin Laden to the gates of hell?
September 10th, 2008 at 9:36 pmShayne Says:
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So tell us something most heinous troll stealing the name of an actual war hero. Didn’t your candidate say recently he was going to follow bin Laden to the gates of hell?
September 10th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
How ?
With a walker and the same protection he had when he ridiculously strolled through Baghdad ?
September 10th, 2008 at 9:44 pmBin Laden is dead and has been for several years. When Bush lies about something significant it shows in his face, his manner. When he has been asked about Bin Laden since at least 2003 he “hims and haws” and then says something really stupid like, “I really don’t think about him that much.” He and the Bin Laden family have been CLOSE personal and business associates since at least the late seventies. Furthermore, there is overwhelming, credible and indisputable evidence that Bin Laden heard about 9/11 about the same time the rest of America did. It is a truth America does not want to hear or believe, it’s simply too horrible to fathom. But that does not keep it from being the truth.
September 10th, 2008 at 9:52 pmDoes Everyone (anyone) remember those tapes that were leaked to Al Jazeera? The ones from Khalil Sheikh Mohammed? You know, the guy Bush’s White House, GOP politicians and the media have constantly referred to when discussing the War on Terror. The guy that Bush has said will be brought to just? The same guy McCain swears he will bring to justice? Yeah, that Osama bin Khalil Sheikh Mohammed Laden!
The sad part, is that many of us knew this wasn’t about any brown skinned terrorist type. It was all just an excuse to invade a middle east country and pillage that nations resources under the guise of some honorable cause.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:00 pmSo the official White House story is that we need Iron Man to capture Bin Laden. Fantastic.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:01 pmStraight out of 1984 and into the memory hole.
Goldstein is the enemy…
The public does have short memories in some cases, but I’m sure as heck tired of being jerked around by the lies that this administration tells.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:15 pmHow is McCain gonna follow bin laden to the gates of hell, if he wasn’t responsible.
Then again, why do they trot out a video of bin laden about a month before every election thus far to scare the electorate?
September 10th, 2008 at 10:20 pmBRAND NEW ARTICLE:
9/11: Distinguishing The Propaganda From The Smoking Guns
September 10th, 2008 at 10:28 pmHey, screw OBL. We got his driver. So there! /Snark off
September 10th, 2008 at 10:44 pmPicklee Says:
When are we going to get reporters that will ask the right questions for the public?
When hell freezes over of we reinstate the fairness doctrine, whichever comes first.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:45 pmThe dishonesty of the Bush admin & other Repubs is mind-boggling. They must live in the Twilight Zone. How they can even say these things without fainting away mid-sentence is astonishing. The disrespect, disdain, & insults they keep heaping on the American voters is without equal in history. Anyone who repeats these Repub lies, and those lies spewed by McCain & Palin, should not only be ashamed, but should remember they will be damned to hell, according the the Bible & commandments– remember the “bearing false witness” part?
September 10th, 2008 at 11:04 pmIt was Osama bin Laden and not Saddam Hussein who killed Americans on US soil–the fact that will be written in history books forever. Bush’s failure with bin Laden and Iraq will be his legacy.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:06 pmWhat? No one ever told Dana that John McCain knows how to catch bin Laden? He says it all the time, and if we elect him, he’ll catch bin Laden, and end the war in Iraq (cause he knows how to win wars too!). She should call him!
September 10th, 2008 at 11:15 pmCome on now, give poor Dana a break. When your entire existence is based on lies and deceit, you’re bound to get the lies tangled up every now and then. If she doesn’t come out with a clarification all she has to do is come up with a new and improved batch of lies to cover up the new and improved mess. It’s quite simple really. Drill, P.O.W., 9/11, Hockey Mom, repeat three times together or separately.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:26 pm“John Kerry”
On behalf of all New Yorkers and all real Americans I would request that you Shut the F___ Up? Asshat who defends the idiot president who was in office and did absolute squat to defend the country.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:37 pmwhich shell is the bean under?
September 11th, 2008 at 12:12 amHere’s my email to the White House tonight…
Dear Mr. President,
I guess this means that the following statements made by you are now inoperable?
Thanks for the memories…
“The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him.”
- G.W. Bush, 9/13/01
“I want justice…There’s an old poster out West, as I recall, that said, ‘Wanted: Dead or Alive,’”
- G.W. Bush, 9/17/01, UPI
Maybe if you didn’t spend so much time on T-Ball at the White House while the country is fighting two wars we may have found him.
Or…maybe…..you have him in a black site somewhere like KSM and you plan on trotting him out in October to get McCain elected. The fact that we can even imagine that scenario will be your legacy.
Worst. President. Ever.
__________
September 11th, 2008 at 12:13 amI encourage everyone to write the president at president@whitehouse.gov whenever you feel exceptionally pissed off. And then expect to be on the no-fly list :)
It will take superpowers (plural), and we all know that since the fall of the Soviet Union, there is only one super power in the world.
September 11th, 2008 at 12:23 amOlbermann’s Special Comment is up at C&L. The politicization of 9/11 by Flippy McSpin and the GOP.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/10/special-comment-on-the-gops-trademarking-of-september-11/
September 11th, 2008 at 12:25 am#52 ptte
Thanks for the link and an appropriate one for tomorrow.
I am hoping Obermann will do a comment on the McCain campaign’s latest smear job on Obama portraying Obama as a sexual pervert. The nerve of it all… twisting Obama’s comments of teaching kids at a young age to stay away from strangers into an inappropriate perverted discussion….
This is over the top and McCain looks like the dirty old man for going there.
September 11th, 2008 at 1:22 amI found the link and it isn’t that bad but bad enough
September 11th, 2008 at 1:28 am
McCains smear ad
September 11th, 2008 at 1:29 amIt’s all classic Rove-Republican re-work history to fit your needs crap. Don’t forget the WMD that weren’t there and we never went to get in the first place – we were spreading Democracy!
September 11th, 2008 at 6:57 amOBL should not be viewed as an afterthought by anyone let alone the WH. Besides my anger towards Bushco on utter failure, there is culpability of the MSM for NEVER pressing them for answers and holding them accountable.
September 11th, 2008 at 8:27 amIf they announce his capture as an October suprise, it will only infuriate me more that they captured him more for political expediency rather than retribution for 9/11.
McMommy and me will get him.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:05 amOh, I’m on moderation now. That’s nice.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:05 amNew Rule: Never mention the Green Party.
Oh, I said the B word. I get it now.
Well, the clip ended too early. I didn’t get to see the part where the reporters all lined and an took turns B-slapping Perino.
How’s that?
September 11th, 2008 at 9:06 amIf Osama Been Forgotten is not the mastermind of the 9/11, then it HAS TO BE 5-deferment Dickhead Cheney.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:18 am911 = Inside Job!
Looks like we’re finally getting to the bottom of this charade.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:38 amlukeness Says:
It will take superpowers (plural), and we all know that since the fall of the Soviet Union, there is only one super power in the world.
September 11th, 2008 at 12:23 am
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China?
September 11th, 2008 at 9:47 amJust amazing ! How can she spout these lies and not go up in smoke ? Plus last fall the U.S. had armed drones over Bin Laden and bush would not give the order to take him out . Actually we have had bin laden 3 times and bush refused to allow the military to take him. But bush wouldn’t want to offend his saudi sugar daddies would he .
September 11th, 2008 at 10:33 amExcuse me TP but at Tora Bora we had enough troops bush would not give the order to proceed, Commanders begged to go in, it could have ended right there.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:36 amWhy this isn’t front page news all over the world is beyond me. OBL is the boogieman who has been used to justify all the illegal shit that this administration has done and make us all afraid to say anything about it. Now they say he’s not such a big deal after all? Why are we still in Afghanistan? Wasn’t Saddam supposed to have connections to OBL? Why are we in Iraq? When will Bush be put in prison already!!! It’s hard to find a better example of how our democracy is completely broken.
-B
September 11th, 2008 at 10:41 amThe true “mastermind” of the attacks:
All the Members of The Project for the New American Century (PNAC)
September 11th, 2008 at 10:55 amBin Laden provided a service for the mastermind of 9/11 : Bush&Co. That’s why he still roams free! He’s available for future “projects”. He delivers top notch service. The PNAC & BushCo gave him thumbs up.
KNOCK DOWN THE WTC TOWERS AND WE’LL TAKE CARE OF THE REST JUST MAKE IT LOOK REAL NOT STAGED WHAT THE MEDIA TELLS THE PEOPLE DOESN’T NEED TO BE TRUE WE’RE CREATIVE… WE’LL COME UP WITH SOMETHING
September 11th, 2008 at 12:56 pmI can hear Larry Silversrtein saying : “PULL IT!”
September 11th, 2008 at 1:09 pmNice try, White House.
September 11th, 2008 at 1:24 pmYup, we had enough troops at Tora Bora to capture bin Laden. Rumsfeld and Cheney pulled back US troops and told Afghan tribesmen to take Tora Bora, knowing that their loyalty to the US and against bin Laden was very suspect, as was their combat effectiveness. I don’t know any clearer way to say this: Cheney and Rumsfeld allowed bin Laden to escape.
September 11th, 2008 at 1:36 pmWhy?
Well, without a boogeyman, Bushco’s multinational friends wouldn’t continue to profit enormously from Bushco’s “Long War” on “terror;” Bushco couldn’t propagandize as effectively for its illegal invasion of Iraq; Bushco couldn’t continue to dismantle the Constitution and other fundamental legal protections of Americans and POWs; and, perhaps more than any other reason: If bin Laden was captured, he might talk about how he had a lot of help from non-Al Qaeda people to carry out the 9/11 attacks.
1. The white house committed high treason on 9/11 whether “Al Qaeda” was involved or not. The attacks were allowed to happen in numerous ways. Numerous lies were told. An ongoing cover up protects the guilty.
2. Some “foreign governments” were involved, and this has been blatantly covered up because these governments are “allies.” Protecting “foreign governments” who attack the nation is the Constitutional definition of “treason.”
3. Democrats have protected republicans from treason investigations, and both parties are implicated in this post-constitutional destruction of the rule of law.
4. It’s never actually been proven the men actually got on the planes, only that the FBI claims they did. Obvious evidence, such as video surveillance tapes at the airport gates has never been released to the public.
5. The US continues to allow Pakistani intelligence “ISI” to protect Al Qaeda, as this is a strategically necessary “threat” to justify ongoing US war crimes in Asia.
Your media has failed you. You will have to investigate these matters for yourself if you want to know the truth.
The “War on Terror” Fraud, and the Washington Post’s “New Approach”
Was America Attacked by Muslims on 9/11?
By David Ray Griffin
70 Disturbing FACTS about the 9/11 Attacks
September 11th, 2008 at 4:06 pm“we don’t have superpowers”
In other words, we are not a super power any more.
September 11th, 2008 at 6:21 pmThis thread itself is cover up for government. Al Qaida works for US intelligence.
Al Qaida exists where US intelligence dominates. Al Qaida in US when Bush need excuse to activate Mid-east war. That is 911 attack. Al Qaida is everywhere in Iraq now to bomb innocent civilians when US occupies Iraq. Strange to say, under the Saddam regime, there is no Al Qaida. Al Qaida seems only exist where the regime being controlled by US. So we see no Al qaida in Syria and Iran. But they appears to attack ordinary people when the government either is controlled by US intelligence or supported by US intelligence. That’s why you see Al Qaida attacks in US, in Afghanistan, in Pakistan, in Iraq (after it is occupied by US). Because where they are protected by the intelligence, worked as a whip to beat people. When government want money and power, they beat the people with this whip (Al Qaida terror attack) People feel hurt then give up their civil rights and money to the government.
September 11th, 2008 at 8:08 pmIf osama bin Laden was not the true “mastermind” of the attacks then who was behind this as early press release from white house and president claim osama bin laden as mastermind of 9/11 whats drama going in white house let me see all story behind it after my 70-561Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, ADO.NET Application Development exam which I had already prepared from 100%Real Exam Questions to pass in first attempt as I have already pass my70-564 Designing and Developing ASP.NET Applications Using the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 exam along with 70-528Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 – Web-based Client Development exams with high marks as i will be free from all this i will be here again and share with you all what facts are in real.
March 30th, 2009 at 7:28 am