Bush's intelligence briefing from August 6, 2001

everyone's talking about the fact that Bush has refused to declassify the section of the 9/11 report containing the Saudi link, but nobody's talking about the fact that he's also refused to declassify the intelligence briefing he received on the morning of 8/6/01.

kinda makes me think the whole Saudi issue might be something of a smokescreen.

It's hard for Bush to make the "compromise sources and methods" argument with respect to the 8/6 briefing. All he can do is argue executive privilege, which may be supportable in law but sounds so "Nixonian."

He wins the prize.

...from Shadow Governments to hidden Reagan/Bush presidential papers to 'classified' national energy policy. They simply don't feel they're accountable to the people or the law of the land.

- GWB's* first (failed) oil venture (arbusto) was financed by one of bin Laden's brothers (Salem). Just imagine if a Dem president had this sort of 'connection' to a close relatives of the man accused of the worse terrorst act on American soil? He would be forced to resign and charged with treason.

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by withholding this information is themselves. The Saudis performed right on cue today. Now they can feign their innocence and W can stand firm and be on record of saying no, even to the Saudi's. Whenever, the hounds get to close to the truth, W will just hide behind the excuse of national security.

Whatever they are hiding has little to do with national security and a lot to do with their own personal security.

Very good post. Get it back up there a while. :thumbsup:

Thanks for reminding us that not all have forgotten the issue. Like all good DUers, our good chums at Cooperative Research like Ewing 2001 also have not forgotten for one day. Check out from their Timeline:

August 6, 2001: President Bush receives classified intelligence briefings at his Crawford, Texas ranch indicating that bin Laden might be planning to hijack commercial airliners. The memo read to him is titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US", and the entire memo focuses on the possibility of terrorist attacks inside the US. National Security Advisor Rice later claims the memo was "fuzzy and thin" and only 1 and a half pages long (his normal daily security briefings run two or three pages) but other accounts state it was 11 pages long. The contents have never been made public. However, a Congressional report later describes what is likely this memo (they call it "a closely held intelligence report for senior government officials" presented in early August 2001): it mentions "that members of al-Qaeda, including some US citizens, had resided in or traveled to the US for years and that the group apparently maintained a support structure here. The report cited uncorroborated information obtained in 1998 that Osama bin Laden wanted to hijack airplanes to gain the release of US-held extremists; FBI judgments about patterns of activity consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks and the number of bin Laden-related investigations underway; as well as information acquired in May 2001 that indicated a group of bin Laden supporters was planning attacks in the US with explosives." Incredibly, the New York Times later reports that Bush "broke off from work early and spent most of the day fishing" (see also August 4-30, 2001). FTW The existence of this memo is kept secret until May 2002 (see May 15, 2002). Could the exact timing of this memo be related to the British warning from a few days before (see Early August 2001 (C))?


http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/main/timelinebefore911.html

I just kept reading and reading, it's easy to figure what's in the missing 28 pages
Saudi links to the Pakastani ISI which in turn sent money to the Taliban and bin Laden, and on top of that gobs and gobs of statements and predictions of a huge attack in the fall of 2001 pratically in neon. And Condi and Powell keep going on we had no idea, we never thought of planes used as missles, oh give us a fucking break, the only thing your worried is getting your ass thrown in jail if Democrats get back in the white house

A bit mo' background from around that time from our good friend Michael C. Ruppert:

43.  August/September 2001 - According to a detailed 13-page memo written by Minneapolis FBI legal officer Colleen Rowley, FBI headquarters ignores urgent, direct warnings from French intelligence services about pending attacks. In addition, a single Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) in Washington expends extra effort to thwart the field office's investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui, in one case rewriting Rowley's affidavit for a search warrant to search Moussaoui's laptop. Rowley's memo uses terms like "deliberately sabotage," "block," "integrity," "omitted," "downplayed," "glossed over," "mis-characterize," "improper political reasons, "deliberately thwarting," "deliberately further undercut," "suppressed," and "not completely honest." These are not terms describing negligent acts but rather, deliberate acts. FBI field agents desperately attempt to get action, but to no avail. One agent speculates that bin Laden might be planning to crash airliners into the WTC, while Rowley ironically noted that the SSA who had committed these deliberate actions had actually been promoted after Sept. 11.

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/02_11_02_lucy.html

PS: C'mon DU! Stop beefing and smell the enemy! The BFEE!

:hi:

and he spent all month looking for them.

But they got away.

Frag:nuke: the Asswipe!