“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 […]
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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 […]
8/6/2001
The intelligence community’s “gale-force wind of warning [of an impending terrorist attack] reached its highest level on August 6 [2001], when the PDB [President’s Daily Briefing] delivered to President Bush on vacation in Texas was headlined ‘Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US.‘ ” – Thomas Powers, The Military Error, Page 32 […]
8/6/2001
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 […]
8/6/2001
“[C]oncerned about a U.S. strike, President Bush asked the CIA to prepare a report on the domestic threat posed by al Qaeda. On August 6 [2001], the agency briefed him at his ranch in Crawford, Texas.” The report “said that bin Laden’s organization had plans to hijack a plane and use the hostages to spring […]
8/6/2001
The August 6, 2001, President’s Daily Briefing (PDB) warned of the potential for bin Laden to attack the U.S. “The document would later become famous, or infamous, but on this morning it seemed maddeningly unspecific, offering information that was sketchy and mostly three or four years old. Nothing on the first page cited current intelligence. […]
8/6/2001
From the August 6, 2001, President’s Daily Brief: ” ‘Clandestine, foreign government, and media reports indicate Bin Laden since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US. Bin Laden implied in US television interviews in 1997 and 1998 that his followers would follow the example of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef and […]
8/6/2001
The August 6, 2001, President’s Daily Briefing (PDB) warned of the potential for bin Laden to attack the U.S. “Looking back, [President] Bush admitted that he did not react with the alarm he should have. He did not summon the directors of the FBI and the CIA. He did not order heightened alerts. Nor was […]