God I hate when the cats wake me up early. Little monsters.
Anyway, it sounds like it's time for that little liar Condi Rice to resign. Aside from presiding over the worst intelligence disaster in history, she decided it was appropriate to stand up in front of the cameras and lie about it. If "I did not have sex with that woman" was enough, you'd think lying about the events leading up to the deaths of 3000 people would be.
This little piece by the utterly unreliable Bobby Woodward tries to exonerate Bush by blaming Condi. Okay, fine, show her the door. If you're gonna scapegoat someone, let'em take take the consequences.
The top-secret briefing memo presented to President Bush on Aug. 6 carried the headline, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.," and was primarily focused on recounting al Qaeda's past efforts to attack and infiltrate the United States, senior administration officials said.
The document, known as the President's Daily Briefing, underscored that Osama bin Laden and his followers hoped to "bring the fight to America," in part as retaliation for U.S. missile strikes on al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan in 1998, according to knowledgeable sources.
Bush had specifically asked for an intelligence analysis of possible al Qaeda attacks within the United States, because most of the information presented to him over the summer about al Qaeda focused on threats against U.S. targets overseas, sources said. But one source said the White House was disappointed because the analysis lacked focus and did not present fresh intelligence.
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In earlier comments this week, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and other administration officials stressed that intelligence officials were focused primarily on threats to U.S. interests overseas. But sources made clear yesterday that the briefing presented to Bush focused on attacks within the United States, indicating that he and his aides were concerned about the risks.
