At 11:05 PM 4/11/2004 -0700 Doug Pensinger wrote: >http://tinyurl.com/2gwad > >"Bush told reporters with him in Texas that the Aug. 6, 2001, memo about >Osama bin Laden's desire to attack the United States "was no indication of >a terrorist threat. There was not a time and place of an attack." > >Damned Al Qaeda forgot to send him a programme.
What would you have done? Invade Saudi Arabia?
It should be noted that an unfortunate consequence of declassifying just this PDB is that we aren't given any context. For example, how does the threat assessment in this PDB compare to threat assessments in other PDB's of the same time period - threats which never materialized? Of course, this PDB stands out in retrospect, but what would have been a reasonable reaction in the context of the time?
Personally, I think that it is silly to be treating the 9/11 Commission like one giant partisan blame game. Rather than tripping over themselves to try and blame the Bush Administration for 9/11 in an election year and to utterly absolve the Clinton Administration, the focus should be on making improvements for the future.
Particularly when even Richard Clarke has admitted that there was probably nothing anyone could have done to prevent the 11 Sep 2001 attacks.
-- Ronn! :)
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