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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (9871)4/13/2004 7:17:29 AM
From: PartyTime  Respond to of 173976
 
From your reference:

>>>That ho-hum description hardly matches the actual memo. And several days after the PDB story broke, Ari Fleischer, then Bush's press secretary, told reporters that the headline on the document was "Bin Laden Determined To Strike the United States." That is, he had changed an "in" to a "the"--an alteration of significance, since the White House line has been that the pre-9/11 chatter had the administration looking for attacks on targets outside the United States. A May 19 , 2002, front-page Washington Post story did report the correct title of the PDB and did state that the briefing had noted that al Qaeda members were living or traveling to the United States. But such reporting was overwhelmed by a White House, PR blitz that maintained the PDB was no big deal.<<<

Now, let me ask you folks. Is the title of this thread 100 percent accurate and right on the money?



To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (9871)4/13/2004 7:22:09 AM
From: PartyTime  Respond to of 173976
 
>>>When Ben-Veniste asked Rice if she had ever told Bush before August 6, 2001, of the existence of al Qaeda cells within the United States, she did not answer the question.<<<

How could she not remember this? One might think back to Clarke's comment about how Rice didn't seem to have a clue about Al Qaeda. Perhaps what Clarke meant is that Rice didn't have a clue as to the importance of Al Qaeda.


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