“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“[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
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
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 […]
8/6/2001
“President Bush would later claim that the [August 6, 2001] PDB [President’s Daily Brief] contained no ‘actionable intelligence’: ‘There was not a time and place of an attack. It said Osama bin Laden had designs on America. Well, I knew that. What I wanted to know was, is there anything specifically going to take place […]
8/6/2001
“During the spring and summer of 2001, President Bush had on several occasions asked his briefers whether any of the threats pointed to the United States. Reflecting on these questions, the CIA decided to write a briefing article summarizing its understanding of this danger. Two CIA analysts involved in preparing this briefing article believed it […]