Condi, don't strain our credulity!

[winterbadger]

And while concerns that terrorists might use airplanes as weapons could have existed in the intelligence community before the attacks, "To the best of my knowledge this kind of analysis ... actually was never briefed to us," [National Security Advisor Condolezza] Rice said.

from CNN coverage of Rice's testimony

How can anyone in the US government's national security and intelligence service claim not to have known about Operation Bojinka? How could someone not have included the possible use of airplanes as missiles in briefings on possible al Qaida attacks in the United States?

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[kathygnome.livejournal.com]

Not to mention being the deus ex machina that put Jack Ryan in the Presidency. I thought all the neo-cons masturbated to Tom Clancy.

[winterbadger]

Oh, but that was the *Japanese* attacking the US Congress with a commercial ailner. Entirely different. ;-)