Fox and Reuters: White House set to release the PDB from Aug '01 anytime now..

Fox

[Dog]

Breaking now.....it will be released in a pdf file.

[kristinn]

The tit for tat that has been going on with the commission will continue. We all know Clinton blew it big time. This Pdb will put the focus on what this administration did with the info it had. I hope they have good answers.

[TomGuy]

BEN-VENISTE: Isn't it a fact, Dr. Rice, that the August 6th PDB warned against possible attacks in this country? And I ask you whether you recall the title of that PDB?

Benveniste screwed up. He just wanted the title out, but not the contents. By asking the muddled first question, he gave Dr. Rice an opening, and she took it. The leftist Committee had no alternative except to insist on the release of the whole document (making it sound that something sinister was behing hidden by the WH). They never expected the WH to actually release the document.

This bomb blew up in their faces. hehehe

[smonk]

he's sober compared to al hunt on cnn's capital
gang right now. what a whack job.

[Republican Wildcat]

Interesting. I had not heard that.

Not surprising, really. They are there to promote themselves, not actually do the jobs they are being paid to do. This commission is a joke.

[Mo1]

What will matter is what was done with all this--especially what the FAA did to prevent the hijackings.

Does this mean the report Al Gore ignored right before he accepted a half million dollar donation for the DNC will be dicussed?

[EllaMinnow]

What's Hunt saying? I had to turn the TV back over to my daughter.

[kristinn]

Anyone who was paying attention knows Gore sunk airline safety. The question they'll be asking is what was done to rectify his screw up by the Bush administration.

[max_rpf]

This bomb blew up in their faces. hehehe

Yes it did -- Released in time for the 6:30 news cycle so that they would be forced to read it aloud, and just in time for the Sunday shows...

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" Don't forget all the 1997, 1998 stuff in the memo. And who, pray tell, was on duty then? Clinton. "

Clitnon was on duty with Monica at that time.
Will we see the " grieving " 9/11 Today show widows slamming Clinton next week ????

[kristinn]

It damn well should be discussed. It's included in the report I gave to Ben Veniste.

[Timeout]

Hunt:

"This is just the document...who knows what was discussed?!"

LOL!

[mombonn]

odd in private session with Condi only FIVE of the Commission bothered to show

I'd be interested to know how many showed up to hear what clintbilly had to say.

Especially given the fact that it was a "holiday" weekend.

Methinks I know the answer to both questions.

[MeekOneGOP]

I have searched a little bit for this but can find the PDB posted anywhere yet.

When the document/text is available somewhere, can someone PLEASE point me to it ??

Thanks.

[BlessedByLiberty]

I don't think he does. :)

(Well someone had to say it)

[afraidfortherepublic]

Its simple. Condi painted Ben Veniste into a corner and he attacked without thinking. If the hearing was karate you would have seen her flip him to the ground.

Do I remember correctly that among Condi's many accomplishments is experience at Judo, or one of the other Oriental self defense arts? Or did I dream that? She can do just about everything else.

[Darlin']

transcript excerpts with two exchanges between Dr Rice and Ben-Veniste.

RICE: Do you have other questions that you want me to answer as a part of the sequence?

BEN-VENISTE: Well, did you not _ you have indicated here that this was some historical document. And I am asking you whether it is not the case that you learned in the PDB memo of August 6th that the FBI was saying that it had information suggesting that preparations _ not historically, but ongoing, along with these numerous full field investigations against al-Qaida cells, that preparations were being made consistent with hijackings within the United States?

RICE: What the August 6th PDB said, and perhaps I should read it to you...

BEN-VENISTE: We would be happy to have it declassified in full at this time, including its title.

(APPLAUSE)

RICE: I believe, Mr. Ben-Veniste, that you've had access to this PDB. But let me just...

BEN-VENISTE: But we have not had it declassified so that it can be shown publicly, as you know.

RICE: I believe you've had access to this PDB _ exceptional access. But let me address your question.

BEN-VENISTE: Nor could we, prior to today, reveal the title of that PDB.

-snip-

RICE: -snip- Commissioner, this was not a warning. This was a historic memo -- historical memo prepared by the agency because the president was asking questions about what we knew about the inside.

BEN-VENISTE: Well, if you are willing ...

RICE: Now, we had already taken ...

BEN-VENISTE: If you are willing to declassify that document, then others can make up their minds about it. Let me ask you a general matter, beyond the fact that this memorandum provided information, not speculative, but based on intelligence information, that bin Laden had threatened to attack the United States and specifically Washington, D.C.

There was nothing reassuring, was there, in that PDB?

RICE: Certainly not. There was nothing reassuring.

But I can also tell you that there was nothing in this memo that suggested that an attack was coming on New York or Washington, D.C. There was nothing in this memo as to time, place, how or where. This was not a threat report to the president or a threat report to me.

BEN-VENISTE: We agree that there were no specifics. Let me move on, if I may.

RICE: There were no specifics, and, in fact, the country had already taken steps through the FAA to warn of potential hijackings. The country had already taken steps through the FBI to task their 56 field offices to increase their activity. The country had taken the steps that it could given that there was no threat reporting about what might happen inside the United States.

[Right_in_Virginia]

This Pdb will put the focus on what this administration did with the info it had. I hope they have good answers.

What would you suggest they should have done with the "information??" it had. And, please limit your response to a 30 day period.

Thanks.

[max_rpf]

283? days -- Don't forget that we had a lot of other stuff going on at the time. I seem to recall an American EP3 downed by the Chinese in the spring...

Policy changes take time. Do you remember the stories about how airlines were going under? Do you remember how iffy people got when you talked about bailing them out? The market was tanking, bonds were on fire and the street HATED credit.

The only solution would have been some massive expenditure and federal power grab that WE would all have been opposed to at the time.

[smonk]

the pdb undermines condi, and verifies everything that
clarkie boy said. pretty well implied that it IS a
smoking gun.

the guys a whack job or a retard.

now I'm watching jabba the ted, and the robert "the
vibrating d*ldo" byrd slander the president on the
floor of the senate.

disgusting.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I think Bob Kerrey should be removed too.