Ken Berwitz

Why do I watch keith olbermann -- even for the couple of minutes I did tonight?  He isn't even aggravating anymore.  Just a pathetic, bitter whining jerk with about as stale an act as there is on cable news.

Here is his latest salvo against President Bush, who olbermann can't seem to let go of:

"On this date in 2001 President Bush was delivered a briefing which read “bin laden determined to strike in US”.  Still no evidence he read it."

Evidently olberman is suggesting, as other similarly pathetic embittered whining jerks have, that President Bush somehow had information about  9/11 before it occurred, but didn't do anything about it.

Yawn.....

I've put this up before, but I guess it's time to do it again.  From my blog of May 18, 2009 - and please pay special attention to the parts in bold print: 

The following is a transcript of the August 6, 2001, presidential daily briefing entitled Bin Laden determined to strike in US. Parts of the original document were not made public by the White House for security reasons.

Clandestine, foreign government, and media reports indicate bin Laden since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US. Bin Laden implied in U.S. television interviews in 1997 and 1998 that his followers would follow the example of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef and "bring the fighting to America."

After U.S. missile strikes on his base in Afghanistan in 1998, bin Laden told followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington, according to a -- -- service.

An Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative told - - service at the same time that bin Laden was planning to exploit the operative's access to the U.S. to mount a terrorist strike.

The millennium plotting in Canada in 1999 may have been part of bin Laden's first serious attempt to implement a terrorist strike in the U.S.

Convicted plotter Ahmed Ressam has told the FBI that he conceived the idea to attack Los Angeles International Airport himself, but that in ---, Laden lieutenant Abu Zubaydah encouraged him and helped facilitate the operation. Ressam also said that in 1998 Abu Zubaydah was planning his own U.S. attack.

Ressam says bin Laden was aware of the Los Angeles operation. Although Bin Laden has not succeeded, his attacks against the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 demonstrate that he prepares operations years in advance and is not deterred by setbacks. Bin Laden associates surveyed our embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam as early as 1993, and some members of the Nairobi cell planning the bombings were arrested and deported in 1997.

Al Qaeda members -- including some who are U.S. citizens -- have resided in or traveled to the U.S. for years, and the group apparently maintains a support structure that could aid attacks.

Two al-Qaeda members found guilty in the conspiracy to bomb our embassies in East Africa were U.S. citizens, and a senior EIJ member lived in California in the mid-1990s.

A clandestine source said in 1998 that a bin Laden cell in New York was recruiting Muslim-American youth for attacks.

We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a ---- service in 1998 saying that Bin Laden wanted to hijack a U.S. aircraft to gain the release of "Blind Sheikh" Omar Abdel Rahman and other U.S.-held extremists.

Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.

The FBI is conducting approximately 70 full-field investigations throughout the U.S. that it considers bin Laden-related. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our embassy in the UAE in May saying that a group or bin Laden supporters was in the U.S. planning attacks with explosives.

Ok, tell me how this leads to 9/11.  I dare you. 

The memo refers to a 3 YEAR OLD DOCUMENT which it downplays as "sensational threat reporting".  It indicates that a single plane would be hijacked, not four planes.  It does not indicate which plane(s) would be hijacked.  It does not indicate where the hijacking would take place.  It does not indicate where the one plane it is talking about would fly to.  It does not indicate the plane would be flown into a building, or what particular building it would be.  It does, however, suggest the purpose of the hijacking would be to gain the release of "U.S.-held extremists" - which was not the case. 

Does olbermann actually think this should have tipped President Bush off to 9/11? 

If so, he is an even more pathetic, bitter, whining jerk than I thought.  And that, folks, is a major accomplishment.