9 years ago today, August 6, 2001, "Bin Laden determined to strike in US"

[Poboy]

PRESIDENT BUSH'S PERSONAL COPY OF DECLASSIFIED DAILY INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING FOR AUGUST 6th, 2001


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In an otherwise dry day of hearings before the 9/11 commission, one brief bit of dialogue set off a sudden flash of clarity on the basic question of how our government let disaster happen.

The revelation came this morning, when CIA Director George Tenet was on the stand. Timothy Roemer, a former Democratic congressman, asked him when he first found out about the report from the FBI's Minnesota field office that Zacarias Moussaoui, an Islamic jihadist, had been taking lessons on how to fly a 747. Tenet replied that he was briefed about the case on Aug. 23 or 24, 2001.

Roemer then asked Tenet if he mentioned Moussaoui to President Bush at one of their frequent morning briefings. Tenet replied, "I was not in briefings at this time." Bush, he noted, "was on vacation." He added that he didn't see the president at all in August 2001. During the entire month, Bush was at his ranch in Texas. "You never talked with him?" Roemer asked. "No," Tenet replied. By the way, for much of August, Tenet too was, as he put it, "on leave."

http://www.slate.com/id/2098861

[Rhiannon12866]

1. And he probably still is...

:scared:

[Enrique]

2. "all right, you've covered your ass now"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/19/AR2006061901211.html

The book's opening anecdote tells of an unnamed CIA briefer who flew to Bush's Texas ranch during the scary summer of 2001, amid a flurry of reports of a pending al-Qaeda attack, to call the president's attention personally to the now-famous Aug. 6, 2001, memo titled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US." Bush reportedly heard the briefer out and replied: "All right. You've covered your ass, now."

[Poboy]

4. 'Hair on fire'

'Hair on fire'
Clarke said that “on June 21, I believe it was, George Tenet called me and said, 'I don't think we're getting the message through. These people aren't acting the way the Clinton people did under similar circumstances.' And I suggested to Tenet that he come down and personally brief Condi Rice, that he bring his terrorism team with him.

“And we sat in the national security adviser's office. And I've used the phrase in the book to describe George Tenet's warnings as ‘He had his hair on fire.’ He was about as excited as I'd ever seen him.

“And he said, ‘Something is going to happen.’”

'Find out all that you can'
Clarke went on, “Now, in retrospect, we now know that there was information in the FBI that hadn't bubbled to the top, that two of the hijackers were in the United States.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4619346/

[underpants]

7. It.had. to. be. read. to. him.

AND it was a one page PDB which no one had ever heard of


incompetence and negligent- there is no question about it

[uppityperson]

3. k&r for the photo

[damntexdem]

5. Five years ago, August 6, 2005, Cindy Sheehan and about 100 of us marched to what was to become ...

Camp Casey. And that started the big slide of Dubya and the Bushista misadministration. And three weeks later, after tens of thousands of us had rallied at Camp Casey II, in came the clouds ahead of Hurricane Katrina. And the Bushistas once again let avoidable disaster happen. And this accelerated the downward slide of the misadministration.

In fact, the entire eight years was a record of either causing of disasters (e.g., the invasion of Iraq) or of letting them happen.

[Poboy]

6. I salute you in your efforts.

Thank you for doing that.

[jpak]

8. K&R and raspberries for those who think Obama = Bush

yup

[WillyT]

9. K & R !!!

:kick:

[Poboy]

10. KO just made note of the Aug 6th PDB.

Questioned if Bush has had a chance to read it yet. So I will assume he'd want this kicked once more. Kick for Keith Olbermann.