Release the PDBs from August 2001 (Presidential Daily Briefs)

[scottxyz]

Look, if you want to shut up liberal conspiracy theorists like us, it's simple - release the damn presidential daily briefings from August. I challenge anyone to give a credible reason why almost 3 years later thet shouldn't be released. "blah blah blah national security blah blah blah" is the only thing they can come up with. ...

Release the PDBs. Then we can find out what, if anything, went wrong.

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004_03_21_atrios_archive.html#108009973046282974


August Memo Focused On Attacks in U.S.
By Bob Woodward and Dan Eggen

The top-secret briefing memo presented to President Bush on Aug. 6 carried the headline, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.," and was primarily focused on recounting al Qaeda's past efforts to attack and infiltrate the United States, senior administration officials said.

The document, known as the President's Daily Briefing, underscored that Osama bin Laden and his followers hoped to "bring the fight to America," in part as retaliation for U.S. missile strikes on al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan in 1998, according to knowledgeable sources.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0518-04.htm

[Old and In the Way]

1. The real smoking gun.

Condi = We never thought they'd fly planes into the WTC.

But this PDB should have put them on hi alert. Maybe then the FBI/CIA reports of Arabs taking flight lessons (but not landing lessons) would have been taken seriously.

But how to explain George in the classroom and the 52 minutes between 175 crashing into the WTC and 77 going into the Pentagon? That streches the idea of incompetence- past the believability point. LIHOP

[maddezmom]

2. Ben-Vensite brought this PDB up yesterday a few times

hope he continues to press on this line of questioning.

[JaySherman]

3. A favorite Repug line:

"If not have nothing to hide, you have nothing to be afraid of."

So what are they so afraid of???