Bush tells reporters that the Aug. 6, 2001, “PDB said nothing about an attack on America.” Let me once again quote from the document itself: FBI information “indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.” (Emphasis […]
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Hans Blix’s book, Disarming Iraq, is one of three Iraq-related books reviewed in today’s New York Times Book Review. The review, by Fareed Zakaria of Newsweek, notes a few items that are particularly interesting in light of recent developments in Iraq: [Blix’s] frustration with the Bush administration, expressed throughout this book, was that it was […] A couple hours after my post on Condi Rice, the White House released the Aug. 6, 2001, PDB. Here’s a copy in Adobe format. No doubt the vast majority of it is historical in nature. But how Rice can consider “historical” this statement: FBI information “indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with […] I blogged below about the media’s hesitancy to call things as they are when it comes to the White House. Today’s New York Times is a perfect example. In an article about the August 6, 2001, presidential briefing, the Times reports Bush was told al Queda “planned an attack within the United States with explosives […] The LA Times, the New York Times and others take issue with a US Marshal erasing reporters’ digital recordings of a speech by Justice Scalia at a high school. The fact this was done is offensive in and of itself. Yet as the LA Times notes, “Alone among the justices, Scalia forbids television cameras when […] |
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