Raw Data: Text of Released PDB

Saturday, April 10, 2004

The following is a redacted text of the presidential daily briefing from August 6, 2001:

Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.

Clandestine, foreign government, and media reports indicate Bin Ladensince 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the U.S. Bin Laden implied in U.S. television interviews in 1997 and 1998 that his followers would follow the example of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef and "bringthe fighting to America."

After U.S. missile strikes on his base in Afghanistan in 1998, Bin Ladentold followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington, according to a [deleted text] service.

An Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative told [deleted text] serviceat the same time that Bin Laden was planning to exploit the operative'saccess to the U.S. to mount a terrorist strike.

The millennium plotting in Canada in 1999 may have been part of Bin Laden's first serious attempt to implement a terrorist strike in the U.S. Convicted plotter Ahmed Ressam has told the FBI that he conceived the idea to attack Los Angeles International Airport himself, but that BinLaden lieutenant Abu Zubaydah encouraged him and helped facilitate theoperation. Ressam also said that in 1998 Abu Zubaydah was planning hisown U.S. attack.

Ressam says Bin Laden was aware of the Los Angeles operation.

Although Bin Laden has not succeeded, his attacks against the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 demonstrate that he preparesoperations years in advance and is not deterred by setbacks. Bin Laden associates surveilled our Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam as early as 1993, and some members of the Nairobi cell planning the bombings were arrested and deported in 1997.

AI Qaeda members — including same who are U.S. citizens — have resided in and traveled to the U.S. for years, and the group apparently maintains asupport structure that could aid attacks.

Two Al Qaeda members found guiltyin the conspiracy to bomb our embassies in East Africa were U.S. citizens, and a senior EIJ member lived in California in the mid-1990s.

A clandestine sourcesaid in 1998 that a Bin Laden cell in New Yorkwas recruiting Muslim-American youth for attacks.

We havenot been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a [deleted text] service in 1998 saying that Bin Laden wanted to hijack a U.S. aircraft to gain the release of "Blind Shaykh" 'Umar' Abd aI-Rahman and other U.S.-held extremists.

Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns ofsuspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations forhijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance offederal buildings in New York.

The FBI is conducting approximately 70 investigations throughout the U.S. that it considers Bin Laden-related. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our embassy in the UAE in May sayingthat a group or Bin Laden supporters was in the U.S. planning attacks with explosives.

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Well. That pretty much made fools of the Demonrats on the commission didn't it...

As I expected, a big deal over nothing.

The Democrats were just rope-a-doped again.

Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns ofsuspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations forhijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance offederal buildings in New York.

This will be a Dem talking point. But NOTICE the bold text.

This PDB does not indicate there will be hijackings that will be targeted at federal buildings in NY, it indicates that there may be hjjackings, OR, OTHER types of attacks, meaning, STILL: The concept of planes as missles had not been entertained.

Dems loose again.

When President Bush gave orders to release the pdb, this is what he said "Release the pdb in pdf, asap and pdq, I am tired of all this bs from the sob's at the dnc.

This actually reinforces my belief that the Clinton bunch has a lot to answer for!

This whole investigation is to try to find someway to lay the problem on the Bush administration. The RATS are traitors and are giving aid and comfort to the terrorists by playing politics with this.

Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns ofsuspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations forhijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance offederal buildings in New York.

The FBI is conducting approximately 70 investigations throughout the U.S. that it considers Bin Laden-related. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our embassy in the UAE in May sayingthat a group or Bin Laden supporters was in the U.S. planning attacks with explosives.

So, here you are President Bush and you're told all this stuff.

You say, "Given this, what do we do?" Answer: We use our FBI to track all these guys down in the US. The FBI does this kind of thing inside our country.

So the Pres. says, "The FBI is already on it?" Answer: Yes, they're conducting 70 some odd investigations.

NOW: Whose responsibility is it at that point to insure that someone has not just lied or made a mistake about the 70 FBI investigations? Answer: Ultimately, the head of the FBI is the responsible party.

You can't be the President and be down in the weeds making sure that Agent W has gone to interview suspect Q.

It's quite obvious, this PDB was a background memo and not a "threat warning" or even a "threat analysis". Nothing to it. However, this will probably send the librats into spin overdrive and give them endless talking points for the Sunday talk shows.

CNN and MSNBC are saying this is bad for the president.

This whole investigation is to try to find someway to lay the problem on the Bush administration.

Ya think??

Some creative headlines resulted when searching for articles using Google......

>PDB: Agents Were Probing Possible Plot Inside US FOX News - 1 hour ago WASHINGTON — President Bush's August 2001 briefing on terror threats included information that federal agents were investigating reports three months earlier ...

‘ Bush knew about Al Qaeda attacks before 9 / 11 ’ The Statesman, India - 1 hour ago New York, April 10. — US President George W Bush was told more than a month before the September 11, 2001 terrorist strikes that ...

¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ Bush warned of Sept 11 attack in August 2001 : report Xinhua, China - 7 hours ago ¡¡WASHINGTON, April 10 (Xinhuanet) -- US President George W. Bush was told more than a month before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 ...

Claim Bush warned on terror plan Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia - 7 hours ago PRESIDENT George W. Bush was warned more than a month before the September 11, 2001 attacks that Osama bin Laden's supporters planned to hijack aircraft to ...

US memo warned of Al Qaeda plan ABC Online, Australia - 8 hours ago President George W Bush was made aware that Al Qaeda was planning specific attacks within the US more than a month before the September 11, 2001 attacks ...

Bush knew about Al Qaeda plan' Rediff, India - 9 hours ago The warning came in a secret briefing that Bush received at his ranch in Crawford, Texas on August 6, 2001, an unnamed government official was quoted as saying ...

Published Reports Say Bush Was Warned About Al-Qaida in 2001 Voice of America, DC - 10 hours ago Published reports say President Bush was told more than a month before the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001 that the al-Qaida network was planning an ...

US memo 'warned' of al-Qaeda plot BBC News, UK - 9 hours ago A secret briefing given to President Bush in August 2001 warned that al-Qaeda was planning a bomb attack in the US, US media report. ...

Bush Was Warned of Possible Attack in US, Official Says New York Times, NY - 10 hours ago By ERIC LICHTBLAU and DAVID E. SANGER. ASHINGTON, April 9 — President Bush was told more than a month before the attacks of Sept. ...

'Bush knew of al-Qaeda attacks'

CNN and MSNBC are saying this is bad for the president. load dem talking points into A drive.

Would the stupid dims have grounded all planes for this?
They are total idiots along with the bs networks.

NOW: Whose responsibility is it at that point to insure that someone has not just lied or made a mistake about the 70 FBI investigations? Answer: Ultimately, the head of the FBI is the responsible party.

Bingo!

It clearly shows that the Dems on the 9/11 Commission are total fruads.

Even the MSNBC White House reporter babe can't spin it to make Bush look bad. She's trying though.

I'm sure David Gregory of Andrea Mitchell will be able to.

I'm stealing that for my tagline!

WOW!

You think those papers are going to print a retraction?

Everyone, hold your breath now!

The DNC is trying its best to divert attention from the abysmal failures of the Clinton "do-nothing" years.