[url=http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/240107terrorclaim.htm]Bush Speech Terror Claim Debunked A Year Ago
Just one of many State of the Union lies, following in the tradition of the 2003 yellowcake fraud.
Amidst the cacophony of bullshit came this belter.
“We stopped an al Qaeda plot to fly a hijacked airplane into the tallest building on the West Coast.”
Bush’s is referring to an announcement made on February 9th last year in which he made the claim that an Al-Qaeda plan to fly a plane into the LA Library Tower was thwarted in 2002. The release of the news that the plot had been prevented by means of tapping terrorist suspect’s phones was politically timed to coincide with the start of legal hearings on the Bush administration’s domestic eavesdropping program.
The day after the announcement, twenty three separate intelligence experts, all with either CIA, FBI, NSA or military credentials, both in and out of service, angrily disputed Bush’s remarks about the alleged L.A. plot, with one going as far as saying that the President was “full of shit.”
Another described the claims as “worthless intel that was discarded long ago.”
The LA attack plot arose from the same discredited informant who said that Washington and New York financial institutions were being targeted, which led the White House to raise the terror alert right as the 2004 election campaign was beginning.[/url]