Bush Told Of First Attack On 9/11 Before He Left Florida Hot

[Linda]

Bush Told Of First Attack On 9/11 Before He Left Florida Hotel

http://prisonplanet.com/articles/may2007/040507bushtold.htm

More archive video footage has been unearthed that re-emphasizes the fact that President Bush lied about how he first came to know about the events of September 11, 2001.

Watch the clip from 7 minutes in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoJwq86jw2k&eurl=


ABC News reporter John Cochran told ABC's Peter Jennings, "He got out of his hotel suite this morning, was about to leave, reporters saw the White House chief of staff Andy Card whisper into his ear, then reporters said to the President 'do you know what's going on in New York'? - he said he did and would have something to say about it later."
This contradicts Bush's statement that he made on two separate occasions, that he first learned of what was going on in New York from watching a television outside of the classroom as he prepared to talk about education with a group of Florida schoolchildren.

President Bush Holds Town Hall Meeting
[CNN, Aired December 4, 2001]
QUESTION: One thing, Mr. President, is that you have no idea how much you've done for this country, and another thing is that how did you feel when you heard about the terrorist attack?

BUSH: Well... (APPLAUSE)

Thank you, Jordan (ph).

Well, Jordan (ph), you're not going to believe what state I was in when I heard about the terrorist attack. I was in Florida. And my chief of staff, Andy Card -- actually I was in a classroom talking about a reading program that works. And I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower -- the TV was obviously on, and I use to fly myself, and I said, "There's one terrible pilot." And I said, "It must have been a horrible accident."

But I was whisked off there -- I didn't have much time to think about it, and I was sitting in the classroom, and Andy Card, my chief who was sitting over here walked in and said, "A second plane has hit the tower. America's under attack."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_VXgKyJVVU&eurl=
Obviously, Bush could not have seen the first plane hit the tower because there was no TV footage broadcast of it until the next day.

Occasion 2:
President Holds Town Hall Forum on Economy in California
[whitehouse.gov, January 5, 2002]

"I was sitting there, and my Chief of Staff -- well, first of all, when we walked into the classroom, I had seen this plane fly into the first building. There was a TV set on..."

As has been well publicized, even after being told of the second plane hitting the south tower and that America was under attack, Bush sat reading a story about a pet goat for well over 5 minutes.

[chek]

You'd really have to wonder at his casual, over-embroidered stupidity, wouldn't you?
If he can't even get a simple cover story straight...

[kc]

well, two of the eyewitness statements Judy Woods qouted in her latest appeal have firefighters saying they watched the first strike on the TV....how sure are we that no footage was shown till the second day?

[Micpsi]

Let's get this clear - and IMO this article by PrisonPlanet has only caused further confusion: Bush could NOT have known that Flight 17 had crashed into the North Tower by the time he left the Colony Beach Resort because, according to the Washington Post (1/27/02), he departed in his limo at 8.30am, whereas Flight 17 crashed at 8.46am. Now, several different sources differ as to the precise departure time. But it is certain Bush had to have left before 8.46am because several accounts (see later) say that it was a 20 minute journey to the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida and, according to most accounts, Bush arrived at the school "just before" 9.00am. This means that PrisonPlanet's interpretation that Bush was told Flight 17 had crashed BEFORE he was driven away to the school is totally wrong. They are, surely, confusing his being told about the hijacking and reporters' knowledge of this with being told about the crash into the North Tower. Otherwise, the complete news report that it refers to has to be pure disinformation.

Accounts of when Bush’s motorcade left for the school vary from 8:30 to 8:39. [8:30, Washington Post, 1/27/02, 8:35, Sarasota Magazine, 9/19/01, 8:39, Washington Times, 10/7/02]. One account has the Bush party leave the Colony suite at 8:30 and drive away at 8:39. Whenever he left, the motorcade traveled quickly: “The police shut down traffic in both directions, leaving roads utterly deserted for Bush’s long motorcade, which barrelled along at 40 mph, running red lights with impunity.” [Fighting Back: The War on Terrorism—From Inside the Bush White House, by Bill Sammon, 10/02, pp. 37-38] At 40 mph, it would take about 14 minutes to travel the nine-mile distance to the school. Several accounts say the journey took about 20 minutes [New York Times, 9/16/01 (B), St. Petersburg Times, 9/8/02 (B), MSNBC, 10/29/02], which means that Bush arrived shortly before 9:00. [8:46, ABC News, 9/11/02, 8:55, Washington Times, 10/7/02, 8:55, Sarasota Magazine, 9/19/01, “just before 9:00,”Telegraph, 12/16/01, “shortly before 9:00,”Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 9/10/02, “just before 9:00,”New York Times, 9/16/01 (B), 9:00, Albuquerque Tribune, 9/10/02]. In all accounts, therefore, Bush left the resort BEFORE Flight 17 crashed and so could not have been told about it, as PrisonPlanet seems to be suggesting in its article. Bush must have been referring to the hijacking when he said to reporters that he would be making a statement later.

Bush found out about the crash either during the car journey or when he arrived at the elementary school. It is not known for sure which is true. For PrisonPlanet to suggest he knew before he left the Colony Beach Resort without checking the established chronology of events amounts to sloppy journalism. Bush's handlers would hardly tell him before the event had happened and then let him reveal this information to reporters before it had happened!

[marky 54]

[Anthony Lawson]

Let's get this clear...

What a good idea.

Micpsi opens his post with:

[Samantha J Fox]

[kc]

IMO = In My Opinion and is Internet Slang

Unless you honstely think he meant

and International Money Order this article by PrisonPlanet has only caused further confusion

[Anthony Lawson]

Wrong Flight Number

This was not a typo; the flight number was incorrectly written as ‘17’ four times. If the main aim of a post is to point out that something has ‘…only caused further confusion’ then getting your own facts right should be of prime importance, particularly after you have opened up with: ‘Let’s get this clear…’

There are many sloppy posters on this site, and Micpsi is someone who seems to have a habit of getting things wrong, rather than making things clear. If someone doesn’t point out such errors, then those who make them are likely to continue to post things that are factually inaccurate, or worse: misleading.

Despite what you may think, Samantha J Fox, this would not be a good thing, and should not be defended.

IMO: It took me some time to work out what this meant, and it was annoying to have to waste time doing so. A minor point, and I probably should not have made it.