In the implication that Bush could have done something material in the 35 days between the August 6 briefing and September 11.
We have to remember that the Democrats were still stalling on confirming his Cabinet nominations as payback for "selected not elected." He was late getting started because Clinton wouldn't release transition funding during Gore's election challenge.
So Bush didn't have his infrastructure in place to rapidly deploy any kind of counter-intelligence operation of a vague nature.
-PJ
The author brings up issues leading up to August, but I suppose Bush was barely even innaugerated then.
I don’t blame him for 911, but I do hold him partially responsible for what’s happened since. In retrospect, he wasn’t serious about executing the war, he didn’t enforce many of our laws that could have prevented more loss of innocent life, and he let many lies go unchallenged which helped usher in Obama.