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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (258880)	5/27/2002 4:47:21 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769667

This was particularly helpful: The leaked Aug. 6 memo from the intelligence briefing included a warning that terrorists from Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network might try to hijack commercial jets. It did not address hijacked airliners being used as missiles against buildings or other civilian targets. On Monday, a national poll showed Mr. Bush still enjoyed a 76 percent job-approval rating. Some Republicans, however, say the White House should have responded more effectively. "Someone in the White House should have gone on TV and read the Aug 6. [briefing], leaving out only the intelligence sources, to show it had nothing new in it and was leaked only to make the CIA look good," said a Capitol Hill Republican with access to intelligence information. "What we don't know was whether the public understood that the leaked [briefing] had nothing to alert the president about what was to come a month later — or whether the White House's counterattack did the trick," said another Republican source who is an authority on defense intelligence matters.