The August 6, 2001, Presidential Daily Briefing was titled ‘Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S.‘ Though it was a classified document, NBC reported that chemical and biological weapons were discussed. “Over the next 30 days, President Bush had no further meetings about terrorism.” – Craig Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Page […]
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8/6/2001
Former CIA Director George Tenet commented on possible al-Qa’ida strikes in the U.S.: “Whenever a PDB [President’s Daily Briefing] contained information about possible al-Qa’ida attacks, the president [Bush] would ask his PDB briefer, Mike Morell, what information we had that might indicate an attack could come inside the United States. …That was the origin of […]
8/6/2001
“[O]n August 6 [2001], the president’s [Bush’s] daily brief began with the headline ‘Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US.’ The warning beneath the headline was a very weak piece of reporting. The freshest intelligence in it dated from 1999.” – Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Page 554 […]
8/6/2001
“In his daily intelligence briefing on August 6 [2001], President Bush, vacationing at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, got a report that warned of potential hijackings. …the top-secret memo was entitled ‘Bin Laden determined to Strike in U.S.‘ …the briefing reportedly contained a reference to a 1998 British intelligence report that hijackers might grab an […]
8/6/2001
The August 6, 2001, President’s Daily Brief (PDB), “titled ‘Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.‘…was the thirty-sixth time so far that year that bin Laden or al-Qaeda had been discussed in a PDB.” – James Bamford, The Shadow Factory, Page 69 […]
8/6/2001
“Taking a month off [for a ‘working vacation’ at his ranch in Crawford, Texas] after only six months in office, [President] Bush seemed undeterred by the criticism at the time. In a USA Today poll released on August 6 [2001]…55 percent of those questioned felt that the president was taking too much time off.” – […]
8/6/2001
“Contemporaneous reports on the day that [President] Bush received the intelligence report [the President’s Daily Briefing, titled ‘Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.‘], August 6 [2001], indicated that he had broken off from work early and gone fishing.” – Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Page 47 […]
8/6/2001
“Despite [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice’s testimony before the 9/11 Commission that the Bush administration was at battle stations during the summer of 2001, in a wide-ranging and emblematic interview with Fox News on the night of August 6 [2001]–the same day that President Bush had been briefed that there were dozens of investigations into […]
8/6/2001
Former President George W. Bush recalled, “During the summer [of 2001], I had asked the CIA to reexamine al Qaeda’s capabilities to attack inside the United States. In early August [6, 2001], the Agency delivered a Presidential Daily Briefing [PDB] that reiterated bin Laden’s long-standing intent to strike America, but could not confirm any concrete […]
8/6/2001
Regarding the August 6, 2001, President’s Daily Briefing, which warned of the potential for bin Laden to attack the U.S., then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice wrote: “The report had been developed only after the President [Bush] himself had asked whether there was any information on a possible al Qaeda attack on the U.S. homeland. The […]