Why Is This On Page 5 Of The Washington Post?

First the link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A387-2004Apr9.html?referrer=email

Now the first two paragraphs:

"The classified briefing delivered to President Bush five weeks before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks featured information about ongoing al Qaeda activities within the United States, including signs of a terror support network, indications of hijacking preparations and plans for domestic attacks using explosives, according to sources who have seen the document and a review of official accounts and media reports over the past two years.




The information on current threats in the briefing, titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.," stands in contrast to repeated assertions by national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and other Bush administration officials as recently as this week that the document is primarily historical and includes no warning or threat information."

And now I'm sitting here wondering why this wasn't the headline item, taking up all of the front page?

all hell will break lose (again).

Staples to buy a whole carton of fresh Sharpies.

...its on the front page of the Columbus Dispatch here in Columbus, Ohio with the title "August 6th Briefing had al-Qaida plot in it"

because the Washington Post, while the best we've got, is GARBAGE.

to bird cage liner...WHEN someone else wants to recycle newspapers.

President Bush was told more than a month before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an attack within the United States with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes, a government official said Friday.

The warning came in a secret briefing that Mr. Bush received at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., on Aug. 6, 2001. A report by a joint Congressional committee last year alluded to a "closely held intelligence report" that month about the threat of an attack by Al Qaeda, and the official confirmed an account by The Associated Press on Friday saying that the report was in fact part of the president's briefing in Crawford.

The disclosure appears to contradict the White House's repeated assertions that the briefing the president received about the Qaeda threat was "historical" in nature and that the White House had little reason to suspect a Qaeda attack within American borders.

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Saginaw(MI) News, here in flyover country.
front page, top.
"US Knew Plot Vaguely"
followed by the AP article.

this will continue to get out. It's just going
to sink in deeper this weekend.