Episode #85 86 of the Countdown podcast is up. Here’s the summary, with links and an extra dose or two of snark.
A-Block (1:30) SPECIAL COMMENT:
- Three weeks ago — so quietly it has barely been noticed — the government declassified the 31-page “memorandum for the record” of the 9/11 Commission’s 2004 interview with President George W. Bush.
- In it, Bush’s words are beyond damning — they are confessional. They confirm his dereliction of duty, his culpability, his malfeasance, in the months before 9/11.
- Bush lied about the August 6 President’s Daily Briefing.
- Bush lied about the only threats being “overseas”.
- Bush lied about Al-Qaeda cells in the U.S.
- Bush lied about aircraft as missiles.
- Bush lied about being warned about domestic threats.
- Bush lied about George Tenet never warning him.
- Bush lied about never being told how Al-Qaeda would attack
- Sadly the 9/11 Commissioners never asked Bush about the allegation that he rushed through the August 6 2001 PDB because he wanted to go fishing and told the briefer, “All right, you’ve covered your ass now.” That’s unfortunate because ALL Bush did in his interview with the Commissioners was try to cover HIS ass. For more than 20 years he’s succeeded, but after the declassification of this memorandum, history will conclude two things: Osama Bin Laden attacked America — no one else. And George W. Bush made sure that America was unprepared — no one else.
B-Block
CHRIS LICHT EATS PASTE!!!!
C-Block
- (29:39) 37 years ago this month I was new in L.A. and on my way to a great interview with baseball immortal Mickey Mantle. That’s when I ran into the most elegantly dressed couple I have ever seen in my life. They were fans of my new local sportscast, and they introduced themselves as Joseph and Patricia Carlton. But who WERE they and why he look SO familiar? An amazing explanation in “Things I Promised Not To Tell.”
As Keith says: Well, that’s all the damage I can do here for now. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck.