We knew it all along:

Much talk has been generated over the "revelation" of the title of the 6 August 2001 PDB. But it wasn't new to readers of uggabugga. Here, is a repeat of our posting on 1 February of this year:

What we are likely to see - eventually:

We listened to Ian Master's Background Briefing radio program today, and one of the guests was Ray McGovern, a twenty-seven year career analyst for the CIA and a co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. In a discussion on the WMD issue, the focus shifted to what George Tenet knows - and if that knowledge is what's keeping Bush from firing him. McGovern thought it might be the contents of the 6 August 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing. From what McGovern said - plus some additional Google-related searching (Sunday Herald, Guardian, CNN, more), we think it looked something like this:

6 August 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S. An attack inside the United States is being planned by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda. The Saudi-born terrorist hopes to 'bring the fight to America' in retaliation for missile strikes on al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan in 1998. British Intelligence says: That in 1998 al-Qaeda operatives discussed hijacking a plane to negotiate the release of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman (the Muslim cleric imprisoned in America for his part in a plot to blow up the World Trade Centre in 1993). The United States should expect multiple hijacking of aircraft. We know there has been flight training by Muslim students. We believe there are al-Qaeda cells currently in the United States.

You know how the game is played. Even though we have a pretty good idea of the situation, until the actual piece of paper is released, there won't be a scandal.

But it will be released.

NOTE: In the resourses listed above, it was the Guardian (in a May 2002 story) where we learned of the title, 'Bin Laden determined to strike in the US'

posted by Quiddity at 4/09/2004 12:56:00 AM