The Presidential Daily Briefing from August 6, 2001, entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” was declassified and released by the Whitehouse about 9 minutes ago.
The PDB was described this week by Condi Rice as nothing more than an “historical document” presented to the President during a summer when “chatter” had reached an all time high. (“Unbelievable news coming in weeks,” “Big event … there will be a very, very, very, very big uproar,” “There will be attacks in the near future.”)
The final two paragraphs of the just released “historical” PDB include the following:
CIA and the FBI are investigating a call…in May saying that a group of Bin Ladin supporters was in the US planning attacks with explosives. [emphasis added]
The next day after receiving this briefing the President left for a 30 day vacation in Crawford, TX.
No explosives involved and never before has a hijacked plane been used as a missle on a building. Hindsight is 20/20.
One more for the dork –
WTC is not a federal building. The warnings are so vague that they could have meant for a truck to park in front of a building and blowup, just like in OK.
How about that thing that happened at the WTC in 1993?
Clinton went to Martha’s Vinyard all of the time and the press loved it.
Presidents do take vacations/working vacations.
Being on vacation %40 percent of the time is a good thing? The white House is NOT in Texas. It is a disgrace to our government that the nation’s business is being held on a scummy pile of horse dung laden ground in the worst god-awful state in the friggin Union.
also…Bush took a vacation AFTER BEING PRESIDENT FOR 7 MONTHS!!!!!!!!!!!!
No wonder his lazy ass of an empty suit can not function without information being written in bite sized briefings.
Condi and Bush (The wonderful humble so-called Christians that they are) have spent so much energy passing the buck they’ve basically told us that they CAN NOT, WILL NOT, and SHOULD NOT do anything unless they are told EXACTLY what to do.
Not that Jaime needs any help here since he’s on the money as usual, but just in case our friend Paul needs more info on the full 40% of our "War President’s" term in office being spent on vacation — while "we’re at war", mind you, according to the "President" himself — I’d point out this link from Josh Marshall who, as usual, says it all more eloquently than I ever could.
Bush has everything he needs at his ranch. By the way Jaime, Texas is a fabulous state and the girls are gorgeous.
Even you must realize your last comment is absurd, Paul.
…that he has everything he needs…could care less if Texas is fabulous.
Jaime, are you married?