E&P: Miers Briefed Bush on Famous Bin Laden Memo

Miers Briefed Bush on Famous Bin Laden Memo--But Newspapers Handle AP Photo From That Date Quite Differently

NEW YORK On its front page today, The New York Times publishes a photo of new U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers going over a briefing paper with President George W. Bush at his Crawford ranch, “in August 2001,” the caption reads. USA Today and the Boston Globe carried the photo labeled simply “2001,” but many other newspapers ran the picture in print or on the Web with a more precise date: August 6, 2001.

Does that date sound familiar? Indeed, that was the date, a little over a month before 9/11, that President Bush was briefed on the now-famous “PDB” that declared that Osama Bin Laden was “determined” to attack the U.S. homeland, perhaps with hijacked planes. But does that mean that Miers had anything to do with that briefing?

As it turns out, yes, according to today's Los Angeles Times. An article by Richard A. Serrano and Scott Gold observes that early in the Bush presidency “Miers assumed such an insider role that in 2001 it was she who handed Bush the crucial 'presidential daily briefing' hinting at terrorist plots against America just a month before the Sept. 11 attacks.”

So the August 6 photo may show this historic moment, though quite possibly not. In any case, some newspapers failed to include the exact date with the widely used Miers photo today. A New York Times spokesman told E&P: "The wording of the caption occurred in the course of routine editing and has no broader significance."

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001221205

The more I learn about this woman, the more I am convinced the must not be appointed.

"the memo" on "the day". and if so, let's hope she is asked about it by the senate.

After they left Texas for Washington following the 2000 presidential election, Miers assumed such an insider role that in 2001 it was she who handed Bush the crucial "presidential daily briefing" hinting at terrorist plots against America just a month before the Sept. 11 attacks.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/la-na-profile4oct04,1,824765.story

The only point that isn't clear is about when the photo was taken.

And ignore dozens of clear warnings that bin Laden is DETERMINED TO STRIKE.


And so we come to the sorry story of BushCo's abject failures on 9/11.

It would be hilarious except that it's tragic. When will we being requiring IQ tests for prayznits?

:dunce:

Just because she's shown here handing him some papers? I believe AWOL/Moron never read that 8/6 PDB. When asked if he did Richard Benviniste, one of the 9/11 Commissioners said,...." He SAID he did."

That indicated to me that the commissioner didn't think the moron read it that morn before playing golf.

As it turns out, yes, according to today's Los Angeles Times. An article by Richard A. Serrano and Scott Gold observes that early in the Bush presidency “Miers assumed such an insider role that in 2001 it was she who handed Bush the crucial 'presidential daily briefing' hinting at terrorist plots against America just a month before the Sept. 11 attacks.”

The photo may or may not represent that occasion.

You'd think her impression of how seriously the briefing was considered would be important, but I only remember Condi's lame answers.

How to say.

and make funny voices as she reads it to him.

totally incompetent and immoral people.

Not that it matters, but I know some people were questioning her being single. I see a ring.

I emailed the link to myself (of course at my other email address)
But the point is Miers did a Q&A session in 04 and she was heavily pushing Saddam's involvement with 911 (all the lying bullshit talking points etc)

This woman is no moderate and is most definitely a hook line and sinker part of the Rove machine.

WTF Harry Reid is thinking endorsing this moran is a total mystery to me....I will try to go and find the link and the text I am referring to and post it in this string!

kick

:kick:

Really?

Here is what I was referring to (the link I mentioned--you have to go there and read the whole Q&A to see her spews about Saddam 911 connection)

But check out the comments from her below...she recalls 911 as being *remarkable*

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:uUt8xZR9_60J:www.whitehouse.gov/ask/20040910.html+Harriet+Miers+911&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Karrin, from OHIO writes:
Where were you on September 11th and what did you do?

Harriet Miers:

Karrin, I was traveling with the President on September 11, 2001. So I started out in Florida. I was the President's Staff Secretary at that point in time, so I continued to do those duties. I was responsible for making sure the remarks he prepared to give to the Nation from Louisiana were properly prepared for him. It took some time, and the President saw me hurrying to give them to him. He said, "Good hustle!" He made me feel good that I was contributing. Typical. That was a remarkable day I will never forget. I will never forget how strong the President's response was to something so dreadful and so unexpected.

Good hustle? Remarkable day? WTF?

How professional :eyes:

This woman is dangerous. Even if she did not hand the 8/6/01 PDB to bush directly, no doubt she saw it before 9/11/01.

What we have here are two incredibly obtuse narrow-minded shortsighted individuals who failed to recognize, or deliberately ignored, the hair-on-fire urgency of the 8/6/01 PDB.

I repeat, this woman is dangerous, not just to the rights of women and the lives of women, but to the life of every U.S. citizen at home and abroad. You think things are bad now? Just wait for the expansion of the Patriot Act with her and Roberts on the bench.

OMG. How friendly is Venezuela to people fleeing the U.S.?

This woman is an ass kisser of the first degree--she is an opportunist's/opportunist.

I find the thought of her on the bench very disconcerting.

Hmmmm -- I hope this will be PROBED DEEPLY

Gotta Major Stink Around it.

She prepared Bush's "remarks" that day after he leisurely finished reading "My Pet Goat."

She has a pattern. She is is official EXCUSE MAKER.

That's why he wants her on the SJC -- to EXCUSE him for his Many Treasons.

:mad:

Thanks for looking out for us...

Time to spread this bigtime

Here's what I sent to Bush on congress.org

Miers was in charge of giving you the August 6th PDB?!
You remember that one... what was the title? Oh yes... Bin Laden determined to strike US"
I guess you're rewarding her as you did Condi and Tenet for their failures. Do you get jealous that no one gives you any awards for your failures?

Why does your jaw move back and forth so much when you speak? Some people are saying it's cocaine or perhaps that you're drinking again. The "folks" out there as you refer to them deserve to know the truth.

--included OP --

chilling, do something.
say NO to POLITICAL operative/crony lawyer
http://www.nocrony.com/ petiton/letter OK so sometimes we may agree with some on the far right, but that can be a good thing. She is a dishonest operative and a fanatic, IMHO.

And the MSNBC link.

sent it with the LA Times link