There have been many Bush Adminstration's personal on Fox since 9/11 and they were never asked these questions why?
Why did the White House not respond more forcefully to the August 6 CIA memo warning of an impending bin Laden strike against the United States?
On August 6, 2001, the CIA delivered a now-famous "Presidential Daily Brief" (PDB) to Bush entitled "
http://www.cnn.com/2004/images/04/10/whitehouse.pdf#search=%22august%206%20pdb%22][/url]Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in U.S." The memo stated that, although the FBI had "not been able to corroborate" a 1998 report that bin Laden was seeking to "hijack a U.S. aircraft," "FBI information since that time indicate[d] 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 administration appears to have done little in response to the August 6 PDB. The 9-11 Commission
http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch8.pdf#page=9][/url]stated in its report that it "found no indication of any further discussion before September 11 among the President and his top advisers of the possibility of a threat of an al Qaeda attack in the United States" -- this despite the fact that "[m]ost of the intelligence community recognized in the summer of 2001 that the number and severity of threat reports were unprecedented."
News of the August 6 memo
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0518-04.htm][/url]first broke on May 18, 2002. During Cheney's appearance on
Fox News Sunday the following day, Snow brought up the memo and asked him, "Why didn't we connect the dots?" But in their subsequent interviews with Bush administration officials, Wallace and Snow repeatedly failed to ask them if they regretted not reacting more forcefully to it. Wallace even avoided questioning Rice about it days after she discussed the memo during her testimony before the 9-11 Commission, as the weblog Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/23/wallace-rice-pdb/][/url]noted.
Why did the Bush administration demote Richard Clarke?
Former counterterrorism official Richard Clarke
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-03-20-clarke_x.htm][/url]left the White House in January 2003, shortly after being demoted by the Bush administration. He subsequently criticized the administration's response to the alarming intelligence delivered prior to 9-11. During the September 24 interview, Clinton said that Clarke was "loyal" to former presidents Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush. Clinton then noted that despite Clarke's loyalty, the Bush administration "downgraded him and the terrorist operation," which prompted Clinton to ask Wallace, "I want to know how many people you asked, 'Why did you fire Dick Clarke?' " Clinton later said: "This country only has one person who's worked against terror, from the terrorist incidents under Reagan to the terrorist incidents on 9-11. Only one: Richard Clarke."
In his numerous interviews with Bush administration officials, Wallace mentioned Clarke only once, as Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/23/fox-clarke-demoted/][/url]noted, in the March 28, 2004,
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,115436,00.html][/url]interview with Rumsfeld. But in that interview, Wallace failed to question Rumsfeld on Clarke's demotion.
Why didn't the Bush administration do anything in response to the bombing of the USS Cole?
During the interview, Wallace asked Clinton about the "attack on the Cole" and why, "after the attack," the Clinton administration "didn't do more." Wallace was referring to the USS Cole bombing on October 12, 2000, roughly three months before Clinton left the White House. Clinton noted that he didn't have much time to respond to the bombing and asked Wallace: "I want to know how many people in the Bush administration you asked, 'Why didn't you do anything about the Cole?' "
As Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/23/wallace-cole/][/url]noted, no Bush administration official has ever been asked about the administration's lack of response to the Cole bombing by a host of
Fox News Sunday -- this despite the fact that the FBI and CIA did not certify that bin Laden was responsible for the attack until early 2001.
Why did Bush not heed the CIA's call for more troops to help catch bin Laden at Tora Bora?
In an April 17, 2002,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A6261 8-2002Apr16&notFound=true][/url]article on bin Laden's escape from the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan in late 2001,
The Washington Post reported that the Bush administration's "failure to commit U.S. ground troops to hunt him was its gravest error in the war against al Qaeda, according to civilian and military officials with first-hand knowledge." The article noted that several "[a]fter-action reviews, conducted privately inside and outside the military chain of command, describe the episode as a significant defeat for the United States." Further, the
Post quoted a senior counterterrorism official saying, "We [messed] up by not getting into Tora Bora sooner and letting the Afghans do all the work. ... We didn't put U.S. forces on the ground, despite all the brave talk, and that is what we have had to change since then."
But in their subsequent appearances on
Fox News Sunday, senior Bush aides did not face any questions regarding the Bush administration's decision-making at Tora Bora.
Why hasn't Fox asked these questions??
