LINK TO 8/6/01 PDB: ""Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."

DCI Tenet has already described the genesis of this PDB item in a letter to the 9-11 Commission dated March 26, 2004. This PDB item was prepared in response to questions President Bush asked his PDB briefer. The President had seen previous intelligence reports about possible al-Qa'ida threats to U.S. targets outside the United States. The President had asked whether any of the information pointed to a possible attack inside the United States. When this PDB item was presented to the President on August 6, 2001, his PDB briefer told him that it was prepared in response to the President's previous questions.

I agree with you, Mueller is NOT the one who should be going down.

Get a load of this Louis Freeh interview:

"FBI Director Louis Freeh Holds News Briefing on USS Cole Investigation in Aden, Yemen
Aired October 19, 2000

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/19/bn.01.html

""...QUESTION: Do we even now know or have a pretty good idea of what group or what individuals, which individuals, planned the bombing. And do you either know or have a pretty good idea who carried out the bombing attack?

FREEH: No we don't. And I've been really cautioning everyone against that. It is much too early in the case to have come to that kind of a conclusion. We have some theories, as you almost have to have when you begin an investigation of this kind, but the determination with respect to participation, sponsorship, if any, will be strictly delegated by the facts, by the forensics, witnesses that are developed, linkages to other places or persons. But we are very, very far from doing that and are really looking at this with a very open mind at this point."

Because they were treating it as a law enforcement issue, I'm confident he was holding back what they knew.

In a recent article by Freeh, he said that FOUR DAYS AFTER BUSH TOOK OFFICE, he was in a meeting with Bush and Cheney and they discussed, Al Queda, Osama, the Cole, et al.

Since the Cole was hit in October 2000 and this was January of 2001, evidently Freeh had figured it out.

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