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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (10053)	4/13/2004 9:43:10 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

George Clooney may make the John O'Neil film.

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (10053)	4/13/2004 10:08:44 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

THE PROGRESS REPORT: 9/11 -- Watering Down the PDB BUSH: Instant Contradictions and Doublethink Galore americanprogress.org At a press conference yesterday with Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, President Bush faced more questions about the Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) he received on August 6, 2001, that warned him of an al Qaeda attack on the homeland. Not only did the President repeat his denials, but he did not address questions about new revelations that references to Osama bin Laden were stripped out of the version of the PDB sent to federal agencies on August 7, 2001. That more public memo stripped out any mention of "the 70 FBI investigations into possible al Qaeda activity that the president had been told of a day earlier" and "did not mention a threat received in May 2001 of possible attacks with explosives in the United States or that the FBI had concerns about recent activities like the casing of buildings in New York." The secretive move is eerily reminiscent of the decision to strip out key caveats/dissents from WMD intelligence reports it used to make its case for war in Iraq. And the ramifications of these actions had the effect of leaving local law enforcement in the dark. For instance, in Seattle, the FBI field office and local law enforcement said they were never told of the al Qaeda plot on the city that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice confirmed the White House knew about before 9/11. DISHONEST – TRYING TO SPIN WHAT'S IN BLACK AND WHITE: Despite the public now having the PDB, the President continued to make claims that are refuted by the document itself. He said there was nothing in the report that said "we've got intelligence that says something is about to happen in America." But the report – which has the headline "Bin Laden Determined to Strike In U.S." – specifically said "[There are] patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York...CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our Embassy in the UAE in May saying that a group of Bin Laden supporters was in the US planning attacks with explosives." ONE-DAY REVERSAL – BUSH CONTRADICTS HIMSELF WITHIN 24 HOURS: The President yesterday claimed that "the best way" to describe the PDB he was given "was kind of a history of Osama's intentions...kind of a history of what the agency had known." Yet, just 24 hours earlier, the President was challenged on this assertion by a reporter who said "Wasn't [the PDB] current threat information that wasn't historical, that was ongoing?" The President quickly said "Right" in agreement.