re: #185 000G

It’s still bullshit. Bush never knew that something would happen (as in: was determined to). He knew that some people had grounds to believe that something might happen.

What isn’t bullshit is that not only did that memo directly warn of the AQ threat, his predecessor did as well, directly, verbally, to his face. Bush didn’t take any tangible concrete action to deal with that threat until after 9/11. There was no task force, no further inquiries ordered, nothing.

That’s incompetence. Bush fucked up, and failed to take a credible threat seriously, despite multiple parties warning him.