On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sam wrote: >> The August 6, 2001 Pdb Item Entitled "bin Ladin Determined to Strike >> in US" was prepared in response to questions asked by the President >> about the possibility of attacks by al-Qaida inside the United States. > > WRONG! Poor Sammy, always factually bankrupt. 9/11 Commission: > > "During the spring and summer of 2001, President Bush had on several > occasions asked his [PDB] briefers whether any of the threats pointed > to the United States. Reflecting on these questions, the CIA decided > to write a briefing article summarizing its understanding of this > danger.
They say the same thing. > Two CIA analysts involved in preparing this briefing article > believed it represented an opportunity to communicate their view that > the threat of a Bin Ladin attack in the United States remained both > current and serious. The result was an article in the August 6 > Presidential Daily Brief titled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in > US." It was the >>>36th PDB item<<< briefed so far that year that > related to Bin Ladin or al Qaeda, 36 times, and you said they weren't paying attention. > and the first devoted to the > possibility of an attack in the United States." The first one because Bush kept asking about the possibility of an attack at home. > There's more: > > "Although the following day's SEIB repeated the title of this PDB, it > did not contain the reference to hijackings, So the next day they didn't repeat themselves means what? > the alert in New York, > the alleged casing of buildings in New York, the threat phoned in to > the embassy, Which ended up being tourist and not at the WTC. > or the fact that the FBI had approximately 70 ongoing bin > Ladin-related investigations. Why repeat that, he's not the teleprompter pres. > No CSG or other NSC meeting was held to > discuss the possible threat of a strike in the United States as a > result of this report." Because it was legacy data from the Clinton Admin which was ignored until Bush personally asked about it. 70 teams were working on it. > And Finally: > > "We have found no indication of any further discussion before > September 11 among the President and his top advisers of the > possibility of a threat of an al Qaeda attack in the United States. > DCI Tenet visited President Bush in Crawford, Texas, on August 17 and > participated in PDB briefings of the President between August 31 > (after the President had returned to Washington) and September 10. But > Tenet does not recall any discussions with the President of the > domestic threat during this period. > > Most of the intelligence community recognized in the summer of 2001 > that the number and severity of threat reports were unprecedented. > Many officials told us that they knew something terrible was planned, > and they were desperate to stop it." Yet Tenet with his hair on fire didn't think it was worth mentioning to the presiden ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:292667 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
