On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Gruss Gott <grussg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Sam wrote: >> Tenet was giving Bush briefings every day in person while on vacation. > > that's odd ... because Tenet was on vacation too. Said so in sworn > congressional testimony. Also said he didn't know what the status of > the PDB titled "Bin Laden Determined To Attack In The US" was.
He recanted. I was mistaken, he gave him daily briefings before and after that August, during that August he only went to Crawford twice to brief the president. >> That briefing was created because Bush asked for the status of al >> Qaeda. > > Really? Because in sworn testimony AQ was barely discussed. What > were the conclusions then? What'd Bush decided to do? Really: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB116/Fact%20Sheet.htm 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. The PDB article did not warn of the 9-11 attacks. Although the PDB referred to the possibility of hijackings, it did not discuss the possible use of planes as weapons. The PDB was based largely on background information about past terrorist attacks conducted by al-Qaida and general threats from the late 1990s. The only recent information concerning possible current activities in the PDB related to two incidents. There is no information that either incident was related to the 9-11 attacks. ... As also noted in the PDB article, the FBI was conducting approximately 70 full-field Bin-Laden-related investigat ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:292657 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
