{"id":631,"date":"2004-03-24T19:56:25","date_gmt":"2004-03-25T02:56:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-03-24T19:56:25","modified_gmt":"2004-03-25T02:56:25","slug":"where-was-the-war-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/24\/where-was-the-war-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Was the &#8220;War President?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/stories\/afp_world\/view\/76990\/1\/.html\" target=\"_blank\">WASHINGTON <\/a>: Warnings of an imminent terrorist strike &#8220;lit up&#8221; in the weeks before September 11, CIA director George Tenet said as the official inquiry into the attacks highlighted confusion and missed opportunities to kill Osama bin Laden.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\n&#8220;Our collection sources &#8216;lit up&#8217; during this period,&#8221; Tenet said. &#8220;<b>They indicated that multiple spectacular attacks were planned and that some of the plots were in their final stages.<\/b>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmm.  So, what was George Bush the War President doing in those weeks before the most devastating terrorist attack on Americans ever?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2001\/ALLPOLITICS\/08\/06\/bush.crawford\/\" target=\"_blank\">He was <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.threetwoone.org\/uggabugga\/2004\/clarke%2060%20minutes.gif\" target=\"_blank\">on vacation.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON : Warnings of an imminent terrorist strike &#8220;lit up&#8221; in the weeks before September 11, CIA director George Tenet said as the official inquiry into the attacks highlighted confusion and missed opportunities to kill Osama bin Laden. [&#8230;] &#8220;Our collection sources &#8216;lit up&#8217; during this period,&#8221; Tenet said. &#8220;They indicated that multiple spectacular attacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}