August 6, 2001: Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Yes, it was ten years ago today.

Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US

Ron Suskind, George W. Bush and the Aug. 6, 2001, PDB

Bush to briefer: "All right. You've covered your ass, now."
By Tim Grieve

Ron Suskind's "The One Percent Doctrine" is out this week, and the Washington Post's Barton Gellman says it's full of "jaw-dropping stories" about the Bush administration's war on terror.

Or lack thereof.

We've known for years now that George W. Bush received a presidential daily briefing on Aug. 6, 2001, in which he was warned: "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." We've known for almost as long that Bush went fishing afterward.

What we didn't know is what happened in between the briefing and the fishing, and now Suskind is here to tell us. Bush listened to the briefing, Suskind says, then told the CIA briefer: "All right. You've covered your ass, now."

[CleanGreenFuture]

1. "OK, you covered your ass, now." -- gwb to the agent who handed him that PDB

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. I wonder if there will be a copy of that in the Commander Cokespoon Lie-berry?

They should make a nice little plexiglass display case with appropriate mood lighting, and they can set it on a pedestal draped with white silk.

Or they can pretend that it doesn't exist.

Smart money's on option 2.

[tanyev]

3. Huh. I don't see any prayers about that on the schedule for Perry's prayerfest today.

Go figure.

[Octafish]

4. Bush Jr was warned, yet he did NOTHING to protect America!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1528134

[Major Hogwash]

5. And as they say, the rest is his story. Complete with lies, bullshit, and innuendo.

Bush ruined this country -- on purpose.
And the GOP is still at it.

The Patriot Act is the worst lie of a law ever forced on to the American people.
It should have been repealed by now, and it would have been if the Democrats had any integrity whatsofucking ever!!!!

[Major Hogwash]

7. And next month, Obama will be the President overseeing the 10th anniversary of Bush's failure to act

On actionable intelligence!!

[Major Hogwash]

8. You wait and see how the Tea Party reacts to the Black President at this anniversary.

They're going to go freakin' berserkers!
Totally nuts.
Faux Snooze will not even carry Obama's speech.
Dick Morris will condemn Obama and the fraudulent "patriotism" of the rightwing of the Republican party will be exposed as the ruthless racists that they are!!!!

[MADem]

6. And now, he sleeps with (and feeds) the fishes....

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-svO7U9SgSVQ/TcUK1fT5TeI/AAAAAAAAHHU/23RN5NHQsIA/s400/Bin+Laden+FISH+FOOD+may+contain+lead.jpg

[SpiralHawk]

9. "Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

[alp227]

10. thanks for posting - never remember history, or be doomed to repeat it

I'll never forget the August 2001 PDB. I was a bit confused as to whether it was on the 6th or 7th, then realized it was Aug. 6. Not a peep from the media about this, especially considering the deadliest day in the War on Terror happened on the 10-year anniversary when "Bush was warned."

The not-exactly-left-wing NY Post tabloided the revelation of the Aug. 6, 2001 PDB as: