[cyncooper]

Ben Veniste is always dropping broad hints of classified material he's seen.

Now why did he feel the need to get out the "She" reference when he was talking about who wrote the August 2001 PDB.

Roemer says he's confused. Well! Whose briefing him on PDBs?

Tenet: The briefer himself. we have a presidential briefer.

Tenet spoke with the president on almost a daily basis through spring and summer but not the August period when President on vacation. Tenet said if he'd "had his hair on fire" he would have placed a call.

Roemer on Clarke: great deal of turnover on NSC staff 2001. Names names. How does that impact getting information to them?

Tenet: It doesn't.

Roemer; Despite the value of personal relationships? he smirks.

Tenet: I didn't talk extensively with Clarke during that time period.

[Howlin]

Do you notice that they reference EVERYTHING with Clarke's testimony, as if it was brought down from a mountain by Moses?

[prairiebreeze]

Tenet spoke with the president on almost a daily basis through spring and summer but not the August period when President on vacation. Tenet said if he'd "had his hair on fire" he would have placed a call.

This is the next lame attack on the President, being out of Washington in August. Mark Ginsberg on Fox just now saying that "maybe this will be the big lesson of 9-11, that we have somebody on duty in Washington in August".

Baloney! The President is fully reachable and is only a phone call, pager, email, fax away. This is the case in Crawford, Camp David, AF One or practically wherever he is. Poor guy probably can't go to the bathroom in real peace.

Prairie