"You've Covered Your Ass, Now"
I'm not watching this week's propagando-docu-drama on ABC-TV, but I have to bet that it doesn't include this story:
The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11:
The book's opening anecdote tells of an unnamed CIA briefer who flew to Bush's Texas ranch during the scary summer of 2001, amid a flurry of reports of a pending al-Qaeda attack, to call the president's attention personally to the now-famous Aug. 6, 2001, memo titled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US." Bush reportedly heard the briefer out and replied: "All right. You've covered your ass, now."
The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11:
The book's opening anecdote tells of an unnamed CIA briefer who flew to Bush's Texas ranch during the scary summer of 2001, amid a flurry of reports of a pending al-Qaeda attack, to call the president's attention personally to the now-famous Aug. 6, 2001, memo titled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US." Bush reportedly heard the briefer out and replied: "All right. You've covered your ass, now."
posted by Jack McCullough at 7:39 AM
1 Comments:
Everyone should read "The One Percent Doctrine" -- a great book about how the Bush administration adopts a faith based method of intelligence gathering. If no one asks the hard questions, you don't have to face hard answers.
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