Osama info deleted from second memo

The unraveling continues


Osama info deleted from second memo
No mention made of possible al-Qaida activity

By AP


WASHINGTON -- A day after President George W. Bush received a pre-Sept. 11, 2001, briefing on Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida's effort to strike on U.S. soil, government executives received a similarly titled memo that excluded information about current threats and investigations, say federal officials. The Aug. 7, 2001 memo, known as the senior executive intelligence brief or SEIB, didn't mention the 70 FBI investigations into possible al-Qaida activity that Bush had been told of a day earlier in a memo entitled Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US, the officials said yesterday.

The senior executives' memo also did not mention a threat received in May 2001 of a U.S.-based explosives attacks or say that the FBI had concerns about recent casing of buildings in New York, the officials told The Associated Press.

They spoke on condition of anonymity, because the senior executives' memo remains classified.

Some members of Congress said yesterday they were concerned that senior executive memos and other similar documents may have given policy-makers working for Bush an incomplete picture of the terror threat.

But administration officials said there was nothing sinister about the deletions, because the memos are destined for two different audiences.

The CIA uses different standards for the president's daily intelligence


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Someone needs to go on record ... "My version didn't have the new information about the current threats".

is this a round about way of lowering the bar yet again for the boy wonder?

Sort of makes Condi and Bush a liar.

But that will not stop Bush from repeating the lie this evening.

Or stop the media from ignoring that what he says about doing all he could do pre-911 is a lie.

of cocaine.

what part did they give to the Sr. Executives? The middle 9 pages?

Ah, yes, it's all just a show for Ringmaster Rove. Every decision made in this White House is grounded solely in politics and personal financial gain, not in the needs of the citizenry.

1. Did someone in the White House order the deletions?
2. Was Condi so adamant about the "historical" nature of the document, intending that they declassify only the Aug. 7 PDB?