Regarding the August 6, 2001, President’s Daily Briefing (PDB), which warned of the potential for bin Laden to attack the U.S., then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice wrote: “That memo was the only PDB item that addressed the homeland threat in the 192 PDBs that the President [Bush] had seen since assuming office. On August 6 the President was in Crawford [Texas] and [CIA Director] George Tenet was, as he put it to me in 2003, ‘on a beach in New Jersey.’ A homeland threat was simply not the focus of the myriad intelligence briefings the President received.”
– Condoleezza Rice, No Higher Honor, Page 69