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"What he’s actually doing, I think, is accusing Bush of negligence in having not paid more attention to the famous President’s Daily Brief on August 6, 2001 about Bin Laden’s intentions. Big difference between those two positions, of course, as the “on purpose” crowd means to accuse Bush of being a willing accomplice in the attack."

Neither position meets any standard of truth or intelligence.

Yet the ignorance about the Daily Brief of August 6, 2001 and what it meant continues, even among some who call themselves "conservative" or even just "fair minded".

Was the information - Bin Laden determined to strike in the U.S. - BRAND NEW INFORMATION that the intelligence community had just learned and was just then telling the President and his national security team for the first time? NO, IT WAS NOT !!! The August 6 Daily Brief included for the first time a compendium, a summary of all that the intelligence community believed it had learned about Al Queda up to that point, because GWBush asked that they provide such a compendium in addition to any "new" stuff for the day.

The idea and belief that Bin Laden determined to strike in the U.S. was NOT an August 6, 2001 revelation, to anyone.

And, in addition to that fact, did the entire summary include any BRAND NEW ACTIONABLE INTELLIGENCE that the intelligence community believed could provide cause for executive direction IN ANY DIFFERENT WAY for finding or knowing where, when and how such a "strike in the U.S." might come? NO IT DID NOT

The entire premise that Bin Laden determined to strike in the U.S. was an August 6, 2001 revelation, to anyone, and arrived with new actionable intelligence upon which to counter the "strike in the U.S." is a false premise because there is no factual basis for it. The date of "August 6, 2001" is the date of a report, and that is all it is and its meaning, the date, has no greater depth than that. Most all the information it contained was not new, was not a revelation and did not provide cause, did not throw any big brand new light, on a need for immediate new, different executive action; towards any intelligence and defense community actions, beyond what the executive new they were already doing. The intelligence community had the knowledge, and had been working on understanding the knowledge, that "Bin Laden was determined to strike in the U.S.", long before it was included in the report of August 6, intended as requested by GWBush, as a report to summarize all they knew in one place.

Those are the facts, but they are always omitted so that tons of false tangents can be created and cause such tangents to be pursued by ignorant people, based on a premise based on a lie about the facts.