Origin of 6 August 2001 PDB terrorism item

[John Chambers]

	Of course, the President's Daily Brief comes with the
President's Daily Briefing. It would be interesting to know if he did
get a verbal briefing and what questions were asked and answered.


>Dr. Rice's testimony yesterday (8 April 2004) contained an interesting
>statement that I haven't seen before:
>
>"On August 6, 2001, the president's intelligence briefing included a
>response to questions that he had earlier raised about any al Qaeda
>intentions to strike our homeland."
>
>In other words, the briefing was not spontaneously offered up by the
>intelligence community...

[snip without prejudice to save space.]

Alec Chambers


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