[tractorman]

And the media always fails to mention that every year the entire Congress is on vacation for the whole month of August.

[Howlin]

To me, they are nitpicking out of context remarks and will weave them all together to make it look like Bush saw that PDB and went back to chopping wood.

Just like Dick Clarke: he evidently believes that if HE wasn't in a meeting, it didn't take place.

Remember yesterday, Cofer Black even said Clarke wasn't in those meetings and ended with "I don't know why George Tenet didn't want him in those meetings." (I think it was Tenet.)