[Piquaboy]

The media has already started spinning it into it being Bush's fault.

[hgro]

The toughest job when you are in charge of any operation is to remove those that are incompetant. They are mostly loyal, have families that will be adversely affected but in the end, if someone can't do the job especially in the national security area, they have to be removed.

If the President has one weakness, that is it. He has been slow to clean house of the Clinton stooges and other lackeys of bureacratic government.

The time has come to clean house. The country deserves it, the adminstration needs it to properly perform.

The secretary of defemse, Don Rumsfeld has been hot after the incompetants in the Army and he has the generals screaming. He does it anyway because it is the right thing to do.

[DustyMoment]

As I understand it, the PDB puts it in the context of "bin Laden and AQ might be involved in hijacking some planes to use as flying bombs; possibly against American government buildings."

Now, based on that, what action can Bush take? The PBD assures him that the CIA and FBI are investigating 70 cases in the US, so what else is he supposed to do?

This is what the Dems have been spinning for more than a year with their "Bush Knew" lie. That's the same as me saying I'm going to rob a bank in Oklahoma. If that's all the information there is about it, what action can anyone take to stop me other than alert the banks that somone might try to rob them?

This is more Dems spinning much ado about nothing than they usually try to spin.

[Don Corleone]

It took almost 2 years to get the "approval" for a strike after the fact of 9/11. Can you imagine the screaming and shouting if He tried to act "Before" the fact of 9/11? More Barbra Striesand by the Libs!

[Enterprise]

"The CIA also reassured Bush that the FBI was conducting "70 full field investigations" across America into al Qaeda and that the CIA and FBI were checking out two recent warnings."

The President is only strong as his most imcompetent link.

[MizSterious]

Tell that to the rest of the media, Deborah. CBS in particular has been completely disingenuous on this issue, but I'm reading articles from a lot of the print news that is just as bad.

[Ann Archy]

Tenet is Bush's WEAKEST Link, along with Louis Freeh as incompetent BOOBS.

Louis Freeh took off 6 WEEKS when one of his children were born....SIX WEEKS as the FBI DIRECTOR, he took Family Leave!!!! Talk about a Weak Sister!!!

[freeangel]

The media didn't get a lot further than the title of the memo before putting its own spin on it and ,indeed, a person over at that "other website" has already declared that they don't have to go further than the title. Could it be the poor reading skills taught by our ever liberal, socialist schools that is causingg this phenomena of not being able to read beyond a title, or are they just evil?

[backtothestreets]

I firmly believe there was responsibility for not defending our country, and that blame sets squarely on government bureaucrats not adhering to our laws and policies that were in place at the time. There were failures by the FBI, Immigration, the FAA, and the CIA to name a few agencies. The failures were bureaucrats within these agencies, not department heads, nor our elected officials.

It seems these agencies, with a lot of unintended help from the media, are prodding the investigators into political forays to keep the attention off their bureaucrats.