Reply #20: Hmmmm - someone's talking to the Star about that PDB [View All]

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And it looks like that PDB is a lot more than 2 pages:

Bush warned of Al Qaeda plot in Aug/01: Sources

The so-called presidential daily briefing, or PDB, delivered to Bush on Aug. 6, 2001 — a month before the Sept. 11 attacks — said there were various reports accused terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden had wanted to strike inside the United States as early as 1997 and continuing into the spring of 2001, the sources said.

The same month as that briefing of Bush, U.S. intelligence officials received two uncorroborated reports suggesting terrorists might use airplanes, including one that suggested Al Qaeda operatives were considering flying a plane into a U.S. embassy, current and former government officials said.

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The sources said the presidential memo included a series of bullet items that brought Bush through a history of mostly uncorroborated intelligence that cited Al Qaeda's interest in hijacking planes to win the release of Islamic extremists who had been arrested in 1998 and 1999, as well as the travels of suspected Al Qaeda operatives, including some U.S. citizens, in and out of the United States. It suggested Al Qaeda might have a support system in place on U.S. soil, the sources said.

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The second-to-last bullet told the president there were numerous — at least 70 — terror-related investigations under way by the FBI in 2001 involving matters or people on U.S. soil, the sources said.

And the final bullet told the president of a recent intelligence report indicating Al Qaeda operatives were trying to enter the United States to carry out an attack with explosives, the sources said. There was no specifics about the timing or target, the sources said.





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