From thesmokinggun.com:


APRIL 10--Under pressure from the September 11 commission, the White House today declassified and released an intelligence digest given to President George W. Bush weeks before the 2001 terrorist attacks. The confidential President's Daily Brief (PDB) for August 6, 2001 contained a two-page section entitled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US," and refers to possible hijacking attempts by Osama bin Laden disciples and the existence of about 70 FBI investigations into alleged al-Qaeda cells operating within the United States. The August 6 PDB, an excerpt from which you'll find below, was presented to Bush while he vacationed at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. The digest is prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency, an official from which briefs the president on the report's contents. While Bush critics have described the August 6 PDB as a warning of an impending al-Qaeda attack, Condoleezza Rice, Bush's national security adviser, testified Thursday that the document contained "historical information based on old reporting. There was no new threat information." (2 pages)

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The Congress is looking intently in the rear-view mirror while heading at a dizzying clip right into a parked carbomb. The 9-11 Commission should wrap it up, and get back to work closely monitoring present and future counterterrorism, including their responsibility to examine tangential and counterproductive entanglements, beginning with Iraq.

hear, hear!! I find it highly doubtful that this commission will decide in the end that anyone can be "blamed" for 9.11. It's just a waste of time and resources hashing this crap out right now. Back to work, you lazy bastards!!

From thesmokinggun.com:

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Whirlwind opines... :o

Why anyone would believe "anything" the Bush NeoCon(men) liars burnt offerings might indicate to calm the natives down is beyond me.

Already, they have shown a propensity to start their own covert "intelligence" department in some basement room at the Pentagon, one that would produce the real "red meat" the NeoCon(men) were needing in order to justify their "rush to war" with Iraq.

While there is little tangible evidence (Clarke & Condi) that WTC could have been averted, there exists "loads" of evidence that Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz "created the facts" as they went and as was needed.

Now, DIM BULB sits in the oval room and plays stupid (EZ for him) and the Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz Hyena's tip toe through the tulips undeterred and unpunished.

Joe Wilson, Phil O'Neil and the fellow that went to Iraq and never found any WMD and now Richard Clarke have shown that this Bushwacker administration doesn't need the Kerry democrats to demonize them - their own people are doing "just fine!"

The Whirlwind has spoken.... :D