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May 19, 2006

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Thu, 18 May 2006 12:30:42 -0700 (PDT)

White House Source Told Judy Miller 9/11 Was About to Happen

Former NY Times reporter Judith Miller to assert she was warned of

large scale attack before 9/11

RAW STORY

Published: Thursday May 18, 2006

In AN ALTERNET EXCLUSIVE THURSDAY, former New York Times

reporter Judy Miller tells Rory O'Connor and William Scott Malone

about the story she'll regret for the rest of her life -- the fact

that an anonymous White House source told her in July 2001 that an NSA

intelligence report predicted a large al Qaeda attack, possibly on the

continental United States, RAW STORY has learned.

" I think everybody knew that an attack was coming -- everyone who

followed this. But you know you can only 'cry wolf' within a

newspaper... before people start saying there he goes -- or there she

goes -- again! " Miller says in an interview.

" I remember the weekend before July 4, 2001 in particular, because for

some reason the people who were worried about Al Qaeda believed that

was the weekend that there was going to be an attack on the US or on

major American target somewhere, " Miller recounts. " It was going to be

a large, well-coordinated attack. "

Two months later -- on September 11 -- ALTERNET.ORG says Miller and

her editor at the Times, Stephen Engelberg, both remembered and

regretted the story they " didn't do. "

" There was always a lot going on at the White House, so to a certain

extent, there was that kind of 'Cry wolf' problem, " Miller says. " But

I got the sense that part of the reason that I was being told of what

was going on was that the people in counter terrorism were trying to

get the word to the President or the senior officials through the

press, because they were not able to get listened to themselves. "

READ THE FULL ALTERNET STORY HERE.

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