{"id":1191,"date":"2004-04-14T16:28:26","date_gmt":"2004-04-14T23:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/pdb-in-may-2001-bin-laden-threats-are-real\/"},"modified":"2006-02-27T18:57:33","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T01:57:33","slug":"pdb-in-may-2001-bin-laden-threats-are-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/pdb-in-may-2001-bin-laden-threats-are-real\/","title":{"rendered":"PDB in MAY 2001: ‘Bin Laden threats are real’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Panel Says Bush Saw Repeated Warnings<\/a>
\nReports Preceded August 2001 Memo
\nBy Dana Priest, Washington Post Staff Writer<\/p>\n

By the time a CIA briefer gave President Bush the Aug. 6, 2001, President’s Daily Brief headlined ”Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US,” the president had seen a stream of alarming reports on al Qaeda’s intentions<\/b>. So had Vice President Cheney and Bush’s top national security team, according to newly declassified information released yesterday by the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.<\/p>\n

In April and May 2001<\/b>, for example, the intelligence community headlined some of those reports ”Bin Laden planning multiple operations,” ”Bin Laden network’s plans advancing” and ”Bin Laden threats are real.”<\/b> …<\/p>\n

Without knowing when, where or how the terrorists would strike, the CIA ”consistently described the upcoming attacks as occurring on a catastrophic level, indicating that they would cause the world to be in turmoil,”<\/b> according to one of two staff reports released by the panel yesterday. <\/p>\n

”Reports similar to these were made available to President Bush in the morning meetings with [Director of Central Intelligence George J.] Tenet,” the commission staff said.<\/p>\n

”The system was blinking red,” Tenet told the commission in private testimony, the panel’s report noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Panel Says Bush Saw Repeated Warnings Reports Preceded August 2001 Memo By Dana Priest, Washington Post Staff Writer By the time a CIA briefer gave President Bush the Aug. 6, 2001, President’s Daily Brief headlined ”Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US,” the president had seen a stream of alarming reports on al Qaeda’s intentions. … Continue reading PDB in MAY 2001: ‘Bin Laden threats are real’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}