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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: MKTBUZZ who started this subject	3/26/2004 11:42:06 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) of 769670

THE MYTH OF THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF The President's Daily Brief (PDB), the daily intelligence briefing prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency, is one of those categories of classified information that are sometimes termed classification "icons" because their near-absolute secrecy status exceeds any national security justification that can be rationally offered. (The intelligence budget total is another such "icon.") The myth of the PDB as a sacrosanct document that may never be disclosed was exploded by Tom Blanton of the National Security Archive in an online essay and document collection this week that includes excerpts of several PDBs that have in fact entered the public domain, with or without authorization. See "The President's Daily Brief" by Tom Blanton, March 22: nsarchive.org See also "Who's Afraid of the PDB? Why Bush should show the 9/11 commission his briefs" by Tom Blanton in Slate.com, March 22: slate.msn.com An August 6, 2001 edition of the PDB has become a particular focus of controversy because it reportedly described the threat to the U.S. from Al Qaida. The White House has refused to release this key document, and has only permitted the 9-11 Commission to gain partial access to it under exceedingly restricted circumstances. But in remarks during a March 24 roundtable interview that seemed to cast doubt on the legitimacy of such secrecy, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice indicated that this particular PDB was not that sensitive or interesting: "This document was a kind of analytic step-back piece that says we know that al Qaeda has been interested in striking the American homeland, and then it's historical. Most of it is about, he admired the 1993 events at the World Trade Center -- the bombing in '93. Some things about '97 and '98. There's mention of hijacking for the purpose of getting the release of prisoners. So it's not in the context of flying airplanes into buildings. It mentions that al Qaeda has tried to infiltrate people into the United States." "But it's all kind of things that you've heard before...," she said. See: whitehouse.gov

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