White House: 9/11 Wasn't Foreseeable & Santa Claus is Real

The White House is on a blitz to try to persuade Americans that 9/11 wasn't foreseeable.

Yesterday, White House press spokesman Tony Fratto said "No one could have anticipated" terrorists flying planes into buildings before 9/11 :

In an interview broadcast today, Secretary of State Rice said Bush didn't ignore any 9/11 "warning", because there was no "'when, where, how".

Is that believable?

Yes, definitely . . . as long as you disregard the following facts:

• U.S. and allied intelligence services had penetrated the very highest levels of Al Qaeda prior to 9/11

• The government heard the 9/11 plans from the hijackers' own mouths
  

• Numerous high-level intelligence officers say it was foreseeable (and see this)
  

Other than that, it is totally believable.