[Buffalo Tom]

Dr. Rice said that the president's "very first major national security policy directive" called for the elimination of al Qaeda. Yet in explaining why the Bush Administration did not act on the alleged Presidential Daily Briefing of August 6th, 2001 titled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States", she called the analysis in the PDB 'a warning'. Huh? If Al Qaeda was at the top of the American national security agenda, then wouldn't a PDB with such provocative language and written by Bush's own security advisors have put him on a cautious footing leading up to 9/11? Perhaps even leading to a public warning advisory similiar to the ones Americans receive now when even the slightest whisper of terrorism is heard?