April 12, 2004
W: `The buck never got to me.'
WaPo:
President Bush said yesterday that a memo he received a month before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks did not contain enough specific threat information to prevent the hijackings and "said nothing about an attack on America."
Uh, unless you like, you know, read the title....
In his most extensive public remarks about a briefing he received Aug. 6, 2001, titled "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US," Bush also said that he "was satisfied that some of the matters were being looked into" by the FBI and the CIA that summer and that they would have reported any "actionable intelligence" to him.
Why is it that actual intelligence handed up by the CIA (NOT requested by W as he asserts) is not considered “actionable”, but made up intelligence by the infamous “Team B” is considered “actionable” enough to justify the invasion and occupation of a sovereign nation? Just wondering.
Oh, and here’s the source of the quote I used in the headline for this post.
And Samuel Popkin, a professor of political science at the University of California in San Diego, said that Mr. Bush's first response on the subject would not do much to staunch what he, too, described as a significant threat to his re-election.Posted by Norwood at April 12, 2004 07:14 AM"Truman said, `The buck stops here,' " Mr. Popkin said. "Bush is saying, `The buck never got to me.' "
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