Another coincidence? PDB Memo and 1 month Bush vacation - same day???

[Must_B_Free]

Aug 6th? is this right?

[jackstraw45]

1. August 4 started vacation

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/2001/abcnews080301.html

MORAN: In Texas, the president will get a daily intelligence briefing, and he's planning one or two side trips a week just to keep in the public eye, but mostly, it seems, he'll do what most Americans do on vacation: nothing much. Terry Moran, ABC News, the White House.

[TahitiNut]

6. Saturday, August 4th, just after a medical checkup at Bethesda.

http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/08/04/bush.results/index.html

[Avalux]

2. Yes, that's right

* conveniently hid at his pig farm in Crawford. There isn't any doubt in my mind LIHOP is the truth.

[arcane1]

3. a recdord-length vacation, 8 months into the job

while all this "chatter" was going on...

one has to be quite blinded not to wonder about that...

[jackstraw45]

4. Presidential DAILY Briefing

Another thing to remember...he got those briefings EVERY DAY. Not a single document.

[pschoeb]

5. Cheney on month long vacation as well at same time in Wyoming /nt

nt

[lostnfound]

7. Aug 6th memo:"suspicious activity consistent w/preparations for hijacking"

From the transcript: http://wid.ap.org/transcripts/rice.html
"that the FBI indicates patterns of suspicious activity in the United States consistent with preparations for hijacking.

That's the language of the memo that was briefed to the president on the 6th of August."

And Bush goes on vacation. And Ashcroft stops flying commercial.

And now they cover it up.

[jackstraw45]

8. What did Rice say in May 2002

Kerry today quoting from August 2001 PDB:

"that the FBI indicates patterns of suspicious activity in the United States consistent with preparations for hijacking."

Rice in May 2002:

" Now, on August 6th, the President received a presidential daily briefing which was not a warning briefing, but an analytic report. This analytic report, which did not have warning information in it of the kind that said, they are talking about an attack against so forth or so on, it was an analytic report that talked about UBL's methods of operation, talked about what he had done historically, in 1997, in 1998. It mentioned hijacking, but hijacking in the traditional sense, and in a sense, said that the most important and most likely thing was that they would take over an airliner, holding passengers and demand the release of one of their operatives. And the blind sheikh was mentioned by name as -- even though he's not an operative of al Qaeda, but as somebody who might be bargained in this way."

Interesting read:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/05/20020516-13.html