Remember a couple of months ago when Richard BenVeniste (sp?), 911
commissioner squeezed the title of the Aug. 6 2001 PDB "Osama bin Laden
Determined to Strike Inside U.S." out of C. Rice? This was the FIRST TIME
the title had been revealed to the Commission (and us). Or was it?

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Cheney's 'Irresponsible' Speech
By Ray McGovern, AlterNet
Posted on July 31, 2003, Printed on July 4, 2004
http://www.alternet.org/story/16520/
When Vice President ***** Cheney comes out of seclusion to brand critics
"irresponsible," you know the administration is running scared.

The last time Cheney was enlisted to do so was in the spring of 2002, amid
reports that intelligence warnings given to President Bush prior to Sept.
11, 2001 should have prompted preventive action. Cheney branded such
reporting "irresponsible," and critics in the press and elsewhere were
successfully intimidated.

In the RECENTLY RELEASED CONGRESSIONAL REPORT on the 9/11 attacks, fresh
attention is given to an item titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in
U.S." contained in the president's daily intelligence briefing on Aug. 6,
2001. Dana Priest of the Washington Post recently reported that this item
stated that "bin Laden had wanted to conduct attacks in the United States
for years and that (his) group apparently maintained a support base here."
It went on to cite "FBI judgments about patterns of activity consistent with
preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks." (The president has
cited "executive privilege" in refusing to declassify this item.) [My
emphasis - AS]

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How 'bout that? It's been in the public domain since JULY 2003.

Three cheers for the ability of a Government COMMISSION to investigate and
discover the truth!

(Maybe not so OT at that!)

AS



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