Why did the white House release the PDBs today ?..

[kentuck]

Let's try to keep the PDB in perspective:

[MissB]

1. They wanted to spin it before NYT could do more damage. (nt)

[kayell]

2. Because it's the night before easter and everyone* is busy cooking their

ham, dyeing eggs, and visiting relatives. Excellent day to bury something.

Edit - of course not everyone, but a substantial proportion of the country.

[maddezmom]

3. spin control a al rove

they know it'll get leaked if they don't release it.

[Liberal Christian]

4. Because it's the day before Easter

I realize that not everyone celebrates Easter, but millions and millions of Americans do, many of whom vote Republican. I didn't know about this until I logged onto DU. This won't be big news to lots of people, and it's a perfect time to release it for minimum media impact.

[Prodemsouth]

5. Just about all of the above.

n/t

[eleny]

6. Saturday is a slower newsday that Friday night!

[johnfunk]

7. Why? On a Saturday? Just before Easter?

So the nation will be too preoccupied with blissing out on chocolate to notice a document that proves that Chimpy McFlightsuit KNEW that Osama wanted to attack targets in the US -- and he and Condi the Amateur did NOTHING.

[joeybee12]

8. Because weekends are clos newscycles--releasing on a weekday

would mean wall-to-wall coverage. TV news viewership and newspaper reading are much lower on the weekend.

[Schroman2002]

9. Explosives?

The PDB says that Al-Qaeda was planning to attack inside the U.S. using explosives. How, exactly, could they attack us not using explosives? The only other way would be to use chemical/biological weapons, which, to the best of our knowledge, Al-Qaeda does not have.

So I don't see any big deal.

[kentuck]

11. The last sentence of the PDB...

"CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our embassy in the UAE in May sayingthat a group or Bin Laden supporters was in the U.S. planning attacks with explosives."

How recent is May??????

[HooptieWagon]

10. Holiday weekend

As long as it had to go out, they figured they'd try and slide it under the radar.

[doni_georgia]

12. to draw attention away from Newsweek poll

[librechik]

13. to make sure as few people see it as possible n/t