New report reveals what then-President Bush knew leading up to 9/11 attack

Newly released documents from April of 2004 reveal then-President George W. Bush pushed back against knowing about a domestic terror threat prior to the September 11 attack and the notion that his administration could have prevented it from happening. CNN's Tom Foreman reports. #CNN #News

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  1. Until Trump was elected I really believed America could not possibly have a worse President than George W. Bush

    1. All these comments confirm is that the US has been on a downward slide when it comes to Presidents. Saying my guy is not as bad as your guy is pretty sad folks. The country deserves better.

  2. “Fool me once, shame on – shame on you. Fool me – you can’t get fooled again.”
    -George W. Bush

    1. @Belly Dancer Em were you alive during his presidency?
      The guy was horrendous and was voted in using DIE-BOLD machines that were unable to do their job.
      That election was the Beginning of the Clown Show we are witnessing in politics or maybe Clinton started it. He was the Grand Master

    2. @my account oh yeah. I voted against him. Twice. He was terrible. But 2hen it came to 911 it appears he did that right. But he didn’t do anything else right

  3. I live in Venice Florida where the terrorists trained to fly and the Bush Administration tried to say that the never had any information about this from the training school. It came out months later that the training school did inform the FBI that they had Pilots that did not want to land like they were supposed to 6 months before September 11th. In the meantime because of the backlash cuz the Administration said that they were never informed this training school went under. Even though they were finally Vindicated it was too late. Also I remember a month after this happened everybody was asking the FBI why didn’t you have more information why weren’t you on the bin Laden family and they said Bush told us 2 months before this happened to lay off the bin Laden family we were looking into it… I heard that on the night time 10:00 news and I never heard about that again.

    1. Flying a Cessna and a Boeing 767 filled with 20k of fuel is two different animals. That’s like me knowing how to drive a Ford F-150 then driving an 18 wheeler with 15 gears. *it would never happen

    2. This is all bullshit bin Laden had nothing to do with 9/11 I’m not even go going to go into it other than to say the bush and Cheney made over $220 billion off of 9/11 people need to wake up. It’s pretty pathetic that This hasn’t come out yet.

    3. I remember that “lay off Bin Laden family” report, can’t remember where but I remember hearing it. It could have been Inside Edition but still not sure.

    1. 😂$2.1 trillion, oh they “lost a lot more than that, and what’s going on now is blowing that out of the water. What a shame that we are split between these two parties. Both are puppets on banker’s strings.

  4. I remember seeing Bush play a lot of golf….oh and clearing alot brush on his ranch leanding up to Sept 11 2001. He was busy trying to be Ronald Reagan

  5. “Our enemies are innovative and resourceful. And so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people. And neither do we.” — President George W. Bush (R), Aug. 5, 2004

  6. “See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”
    – President George W. Bush (R)

    1. @UK aviation fan and other interests At least Herschel has football to blame for his impairment; what’s Biden’s excuse?

    2. @John Farmer That’s not a source, but I apologize, that’s a subject worth considering, I was really replying to the other idiot who claimed the US government did it in some evil conspiracy. I didn’t watch the docu but I knew what I was looking at, to my understanding, Bush dumped this guy when he spoke out against the war in Iraq saying there was no evidence of mass destruction weapons and not to listen to what some people “claim.” I do not believe the government did 9/11 or “let it happen” I believe he was just clueless as to how serious the threat was. The connection to Saddam Hussein and Al Queda is like saying Ukraine is running with Nazis, they are both ridiculous. I apologize though again, you seem to be on the right track, you may know more about a lot of this than me, my concern was the other idiot sorry

    3. @John Patrick well, he’s 80. And has always admitted he’s had a speech impediment. What if it was your grandmother or grandfather?

  7. “When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.”
    — President George W. Bush (R)

    1. @Mark Hepworth he’s still a better speaker then Biden. Biden is so slow in his speech it’s just sad. Bush was fun but laughed at it

    2. @MRTOOTH0331 and your still laughing at 30 years of war in iraq/Afghanistan he got us into on false weapons of mass destruction. Trillions of dollars war debt too???

  8. The actor who played Carmine Lupertazzi Jr said on the ‘Talking Sopranos’ that a lot of his lines were exact quotes from Bush.

    1. …and we should believe actors because they were all the miserable band fags and pantomimes in high school that hated all the other kids especially the jocks and the popular ones !!!

    1. the average office holder has grey hair and won’t even live long enough to see their own legislation go into effect. what a world we live in.

    2. Contemporary politicians of the time said NO WAY could 2 bills as massive as the Patriot Acts been written up in the short time between the towers and building 7 being brought down and the bills becoming law. NO. WAY.

    3. @John Smithe and if you say you don’t support the war, the troops and President, you’re un-American. I remember seeing the rallies on TV back then and it was scary. And the Muslim communities, Sihks , etc were so scared, rightly so.

  9. Defence contractors knew they needed contracts to be renewed. Cheney and Bush both held stock in several defence companies including Haliburton, Raytheon, Lockheed, etc. They all got their contracts renewed. And Cheney and Bush got to stay blame free for starting a war. Weapons of mass destruction was the next justification for even more contracts.

    1. Democrats started the Russia/Ukraine war: During the Obama administration Russia invaded the southern 1/3rd of Ukraine which is called Crimea. Russian special forces/snipers then spread out through the rest of Ukraine and killed citizens. (there are Youtube videos of them shooting kids and parents as they come out of school) check out the film of when Obama thought the Mic was ff and told the Russian president “I will have more leeway after the election”. Ukraine’s attorney General was investigating the ethically Russian owned Ukranian energy company Burisma for corruption. (Yes, the same Burisma that hired crackhead Hunter Biden on their board of directors) VP Joe Biden wanted to investigation to end and when in Ukraine told their president to fire his attorney General otherwise he would withhold the billion dollars in aid they had promised. Biden actually got that money withheld until the AG was replaced. You can also look up the video of Biden bragging about his Strong arm tactics. Trump became president and told Putin to remove his snipers and special forces and he did. Trump then sold Ukraine shoulder held anti tank and anti aircraft weapons in case Russia invaded in the future. Ukraine elected a new president Zalensky who reopened the investigation into Burisma and the Bidens. Zalensky called Trump and wanted more military aid to deter the Russians. Trump said that he could not do that as it would look like a Quid Pro Quo. The Democrats then impeached Trump for that phone call !! Trump did however give aid to Turkey, who in turn sold more anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons to Ukraine. Biden won the next election. Bidens secretary of Defense stated it would take Russia 36 days to overtake Ukraine and they could do it with minimal damage to the infrastructure. THE PLAN WAS: Russia takes over Ukraine in a month. Ethnically Russian owned Ukranian energy company Burisma would get ALL of the energy contracts to supply oil and natural gas to ALL of Europe !!! Money for Bidens !!!! Which is why the Biden administration did nothing for the first 30 days of the invasion other than say they were “monitoring the situation at the Ukranian border.” Once the war got prolonged the Bidens switched sides because the American people voiced their support for Ukraine.

    2. An illegal war is the one when Obama got us into the war in Syria without congressional approval.(that alone makes it ILLEGAL) Plus his minions in the news media refused to cover the fact that we were fighting in Syria for over a year and they never mentioned that were we fighting on the same side as the Muslim Brotherhood.

    3. Shawn
      Cheney was the CEO of halliburton right before he quit to become president or. I mean vice president.

    4. @Mike Oveli So he had a real job and knew how to actually run a billion dollar organization. Sure beats a community organizer who became a senator, voted “present” on every bill and then got indicted by a grand jury for real estate fraud and conspiracy to commit real estate fraud, 3 months before his election. Too bad his co-conspirator Tony Rezko had to go to prison. Cant have a conspiracy without 2 criminals committing an overt act of the crime. Thats Obumma I’m talking about. The man who got us into an ILLEGAL war in Syria. Had our guys fight on the side of the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Queada.

  10. If you go down the rabbit hole on YouTube, you can find where Bush said many times after that he watched the plane hit the first world trade center before he went into the classroom, and thought to himself, what a bad pilot. The problem with that is there was no video of the first plane hitting the tower until the next day. This was not a slip of his tongue. He repeated it. The only way he could have seen it that day is if he seen it in his limo before entering the class room. One of the only times I’ve taken him at his word that he was telling the truth.

    1. @Thea Bristlebroom the brothers who filmed it were out the whole day filming. They were doing a sma film about fire fighters and we’re there by accident. They were not live and not part of a news organization to down load the footage.

  11. Remember that the whole case was “solved” within 24 hours, names, process, and motives. The official story never altered from this story that was presented on 9/12/01. That’s not suspicious!

  12. Anyone who yelled this from the mountain top during his tenure was labeled a “conspiracy theorist”. Yet here we are.
    Just like Reagan and Iran Contra, Trump and COVID, Republicans knew, and failed to act properly.

  13. Funny that, never before or since 9/11 has an airplane brought down a skyscraper. But supposedly, 2 planes brought down 3 buildings on that day. Weird, huh? It’s also weird that the buildings didn’t begin to collapse where the damage from the planes occurred; they all began at the top and came down, floor by floor, into their own footprint. In the movie put out by “Architects and Engineers For 9/11 Truth”, an engineer said that you would be more likely to win the lottery twice than for 3 buildings to fall into their own footprint.

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