2. CIA Shuts Down Secret Unit That Hunted For Bin Laden:
Mark Mazzetti,
New York Times
Tuesday, July 4, 2006
SFGate
(07-04) 04:00 PST Washington -- The CIA has closed down a secret unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, intelligence officials said Monday.3. Bush "Truly Not Concerned" About Bin Laden!
The terrorist tracking unit, known inside the spy agency as "Alec station," was disbanded late last year and its analysts reassigned to other offices within the CIA's Counterterrorist Center, the officials said.
...Established in 1996, when bin Laden's calls for global jihad were a source of increasing concern for officials in Washington, Alec station operated in a fashion similar to other CIA stations around the globe.
The two dozen staffers who worked at the station, which was named after Scheuer's son and was housed in leased office space near CIA headquarters in northern Virginia, issued regular cables to the agency about bin Laden's growing capabilities and his desire to strike American targets throughout the world.
Bush tells reporters during a press conference that he isn't concerned about bin Laden only 6 months after 9/11, then lies about it during the 2004 Debates.
"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him."
- G.W. Bush, 9/13/01
"I want justice...There's an old poster out West, as I recall, that said, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive,'"
- G.W. Bush, 9/17/01, UPI
"...Secondly, he is not escaping us. This is a guy, who, three months ago, was in control of a county [sic]. Now he's maybe in control of a cave. He's on the run. Listen, a while ago I said to the American people, our objective is more than bin Laden. But one of the things for certain is we're going to get him running and keep him running, and bring him to justice. And that's what's happening. He's on the run, if he's running at all. So we don't know whether he's in cave with the door shut, or a cave with the door open -- we just don't know...."
- Bush, in remarks in a Press Availablity with the Press Travel Pool,
The Prairie Chapel Ranch, Crawford TX, 12/28/01, as reported on
official White House site
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02
"I am truly not that concerned about him."
- G.W. Bush, repsonding to a question about bin Laden's whereabouts,
3/13/02 (The New American, 4/8/02)
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