Not a good couple of weeks for the White House, forced to admit that numerous warnings before the attacks of September 11, 2001, went unheeded. Changeable and contradictory accounts come from senior government officials including National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, about who heard what, and from whom. FBI Director Robert Mueller has testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the “Phoenix memo,” in which FBI field agent Ken Williams tried to warn higher-ups about some incongruous flight students in Arizona. Meanwhile, the administration must also battle suggestions that recent threat warnings about terrorism have been deliberately hyped ...   more »