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	CNN.com - White House releases bin Laden memo - Apr 12, 2004
		Presidential briefing was at center of Rice's testimony
		The White House said the presidential daily briefing, or PDB, was requested by Bush, who sought information about the possibility of an al Qaeda attack in the United States.
		The commission asked that the presidential daily briefing be declassified after Rice's testimony.
	www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/10/bush.briefing/index.html (764 words)

	President's Daily Brief - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		(PDB), sometimes incorrectly referred to as the President's Daily Briefing or the President's Daily Bulletin, is a top secret document produced each morning for the President of the United States.
		Responsibility for producing the PDB — which was traditionally held by the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) — was transferred to the new Director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte, after he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 21, 2005
		The PDB came under increased public awareness during testimony in front of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, which was convened in 2004 to analyze the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States of America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/President's_Daily_Briefing (519 words)

	August 6 PDB
		The PDB was based largely on background information about past terrorist attacks conducted by al-Qaida and general threats from the late 1990s.
		When this PDB item was presented to the President on August 6, 2001, his PDB briefer told him that it was prepared in response to the President's previous questions.
		The copy of the PDB that has been released is a copy of the PDB prepared for the President, except that three redactions have been made to protect the names of foreign governments that provided information to CIA.
	www.agonist.org /annex/pdb.htm (1262 words)

	9/11 memo included al-Qaida threat - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		President Bush's August 2001 briefing on terrorism threats, described largely as a historical document, included information from three months earlier that al-Qaida was trying to send operatives into the United States for an explosives attack, according to several people who have seen the memo.
		The so-called presidential daily briefing, or PDB, delivered to Bush on Aug. 6, 2001 a month before the Sept. 11 attacks said there were various reports that Osama bin Laden had wanted to strike inside the United States as early as 1997 and continuing into the spring of 2001, the sources told The Associated Press.
		The sources said the briefing memo did not provide the exact date of that intelligence but made clear it was in the 2001 time frame, and that FBI and other agencies were investigating it.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/wire/2004/04/09/911memo/print.html (929 words)

	White House Releases Pre-9/11 Intel Memo - April 10, 2004
		The confidential President's Daily Brief (PDB) for August 6, 2001 contained a two-page section entitled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US," and refers to possible hijacking attempts by Osama bin Laden disciples and the existence of about 70 FBI investigations into alleged al-Qaeda cells operating within the United States.
		The digest is prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency, an official from which briefs the president on the report's contents.
		While Bush critics have described the August 6 PDB as a warning of an impending al-Qaeda attack, Condoleezza Rice, Bush's national security adviser, testified Thursday that the document contained "historical information based on old reporting.
	www.thesmokinggun.com /archive/0409041pdb1.html (177 words)

	FOXNews.com - Memo Suggested Al Qaeda Attack Inside U.S. - Politics \| Republican Party \| Democratic Party \| Political ...
		WASHINGTON — The presidential memo of August 2001, a touchy subject in National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice's (search) testimony in front of the Sept. 11 commission, indicated that Al Qaeda was attempting to send operatives into the United States to hit a target with explosives three months earlier.
		The presidential daily briefing, or PDB, was given to Bush on August 6, 2001 —; a month before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
		PDBs are a compilation of information from law enforcement and intelligence agencies to keep the president updated on threats around the world.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,116655,00.html (1007 words)

	Subliminal News - Declassified: Presidential Daily Briefing, Aug. 6, 2001 (text)
		This is the first Presidential Daily Briefing ever to be released to the public.
		The White House declassified and released Saturday the daily intelligence briefing delivered to President Bush a month before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
		The briefing was delivered to Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas.
	www.subliminalnews.com /archives/000170.php (1118 words)

	White House Had Prior Knowledge Of Cheney Threat \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		WASHINGTON, DC—Government documents declassified today reveal that President Bush was briefed last summer of "a substantial risk" that Vice President Dick Cheney would shoot an elderly male in the face sometime in the next several months.
		The brief, which urged the White House to take "the most thorough possible precautions to disable this threat to the faces, necks, and chests of the nation's elderly," was issued a full six months before the events of Feb. 11.
		The emergence of the document is causing many to question whether Bush and his staff adequately understood or appreciated the the risk posed by Cheney.
	www.theonion.com.cob-web.org:8888 /content/node/45572 (471 words)

	SouthernUtah.com - Pre-September 11 Presidential Daily Briefing is no Smoking Gun
		Upon close inspection it is clear that this briefing holds no smoking guns implicating President Bush or anyone else as having had some foreknowledge of 9-11.
		The CIA’s Presidential Daily Briefing--known in Washington as the PDB--is one of the most closely-held documents in the U.S. government.
		Democrats on the commission and elsewhere, accompanied by the media, have pummeled the Bush administration over the existence of this PDB, apparently hoping to turn it into a “smoking gun” showing that Bush could somehow have stopped 9-11, or that he was not energetic enough in his response to it.
	www.southernutah.com /Articles/World_Affairs/Document.2004-04-16.0038 (751 words)

	Mark R. Levin on Intelligence & 9/11 on National Review Online
		Furthermore, the PDB states the information, which was wrong, was uncorroborated but, nonetheless, there were 70 FBI field investigations occurring across the nation looking into bin Laden connections.
		The declassification and release of the August 6 PDB proves one thing: The president and his people have been telling the truth all along about both the substance and nature of the intelligence information they received.
		The briefing did not provide the president with the information he would have needed to stop the terrorist attacks, which came less than five weeks later.
	www.nationalreview.com /levin/levin200404121009.asp (1005 words)

	Airbag - A Better Tighty Whitey.
		The PDB is a document produced each day by the intelligence community that outlines ongoing developments that are deemed worth the president's attention.
		This PDB would be a very good format for all manner of daily briefings for a busy executive.
		The brief is historical in nature in that context because it talks of actions that were in the past that show OBL's deeds.
	www.airbag.ca /archives/002868.php (5043 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Osama brief 'old intel' senator stated in 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Presidential Daily Brief at the heart of contentious exchanges in Condoleezza Rice's 9-11 Commission testimony yesterday contained old information about Osama bin Laden's threat to the United States, according to comments made two years ago by Democratic Sen. Bob Graham of Florida.
		The senator said the threats of hijacking in the Aug. 6 memo were based on very old intelligence the committee had seen earlier.
		Presidential Daily Briefs are a compilation of information from law enforcement and intelligence agencies which normally are seen only by top presidential officials.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37970 (452 words)

	portland imc - 2004.04.15 - Infamous August 6 Presidential Daily Briefing Was Edited Down 9 Pages!!
		Everyone is assuming that the Bush administration meekly complied with the outcry coming from both sides of the aisle in Congress, declassifying and releasing the Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) for August 6, 2001, with uncharacteristic speed.
		The incomplete one and a half page version of the Aug. 6 PDB is damaging enough: it relates not only the extent of Al Qaeda's penetration of the U.S., but also communicates a sense of imminent danger related to "suspicious activity" in the New York area.
		The purpose of a PDB is to synthesize the latest intelligence and give the President an overview of the day's threats to the nation's security.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/04/286023.shtml (1582 words)

	AlterNet: The 9/11 Cover-up
		It was noted on front pages that the bipartisan 9/11 commission and the Bush administration, after weeks of squabbling, had forged a deal regarding the commission's access to intelligence briefings given to Bush before September 11, 2001.
		It is permitting the 10-member commission limited access to these intelligence reports, known as the President's Daily Brief (PDB).
		When the August 6, 2001, briefing hit the headlines 18 months ago, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice pooh-poohed it and told reporters that the PDB had contained merely a general warning about al Qaeda.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=17243 (1103 words)

	The Daily News Online
		WASHINGTON -- President Bush's August 2001 briefing on terrorism threats, described largely as a historical document, included information from three months earlier that al-Qaida was trying to send operatives into the United States for an explosives attack, according to several people who have seen the memo.
		The same month as that briefing of Bush, U.S. intelligence officials received two uncorroborated reports suggesting terrorists might use airplanes, including one that suggested al-Qaida operatives were considering flying a plane into a U.S. embassy, current and former government officials said.
		Rice also testified that she did not recall seeing any warnings before Sept. 11 that a plane might be used a terrorist weapon, though it was possible others in the White House did.
	www.tdn.com /articles/2004/04/10/nation_world/news02.txt (959 words)

	Press Briefing Archives
		Press Briefing by Ambassador John Negroponte on the Nomination of General Hayden for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
		Press Briefing on the President's Visit to China by Mike Green, Special Assistant to the President for NSA and Faryar Shirzad, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy NSA for International Economic Affairs
		Press Briefing on the President's Meeting with Prime Minister Singh of India by Nick Burns, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs and Mike Green, Senior Director for Asian Affairs at the NSC
	www.whitehouse.gov /news/briefings (1743 words)

	Bush UFO Story
		While President he limited the number of people who could read the Presidential Daily briefing, "to ensure that the Agency felt free to include more sensitive material." He started each day with a briefer from the CIA presenting him the latest intelligence.
		Besides limiting the number of people who had access to the Presidential Daily Briefing book, all briefing books had to be returned the same day.
		Perhaps one of the strangest Presidential UFO stories comes from circumstances surrounding an abduction of a lady by the name of Linda Napolitano that occurred in November 1989, and disclosures made about the case by Dr. Steven Greer.
	www.presidentialufo.com /bush_ufo_story.htm (3946 words)

	a relative path: Presidential Daily Briefing Released (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bush's 'al-Qaeda memo' released" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3616005.stm">quietly released the infamous August 6th Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB).
		The briefing, entitled "Bin Laden determined to attack inside the United States", came to light during last Thursday's testimony to the 9/11 commission from US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.
		It was given to President Bush as part of his daily intelligence briefing.
	www.relativepath.org /2004/04/presidential_da.html (252 words)

	Presidential Daily Briefing Secrets
		The following document is a Presidential Daily Briefing, a memo prepared for and delivered to George W. Bush on August 6, 2001.
		You are seeing this document now in spite of the Bush Administration's years-long effort to keep it kept secret from you.
		Well, George W. Bush's spokespeople have said that the Presidential Daily Briefing contains information that, if revealed to the public, would compromise national security (they call it "homeland security", though no one has yet to explain how "homeland security" is any different from national security or domestic security).
	irregulartimes.com /pdb.html (740 words)

	August 6 Memo Supports Rice Testimony
		The two-page Presidential Daily Briefing of August 6, 2001 was made public as requested by all members of the panel.
		Former Watergate Prosecutor and high-powered Democratic lawyer Richard Ben-Veniste took Rice to task during her sworn testimony, demanding that she say the title of the PDB, which was "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US." He tried to cut her off before she explained that the seemingly damning title was misleading considering the content.
		During a background briefing following the release of the memo, a senior administration official said, "The release of this PDB should clear up the myth that's out there that somehow the President was warned about September 11th."
	mensnewsdaily.com /archive/newswire/news2004/0401/041204-memo.htm (763 words)

	Mr. Bush: Leave Heaven and Earth Alone!
		For example, she was forced to acknowledge that the title of a Presidential Daily Briefing that she described as merely "historical" specifically warned George W. Bush "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US".
		That Presidential Daily Briefing, including its title, had been kept classified, again supposedly as a matter of principle, by the Bush Administration.
		What I am bothered by is that George W. Bush and all his top officials have been so stupid and so disrespectful of the American people that they have decided to keep all this information secret for so long.
	irregulartimes.com /heavenandearth.html (1914 words)

	Daily Press Briefing -- April 20
		They're going to be having a briefing at 3:30, an on-the-record briefing with some of the experts who have been participating in these meetings, and I think they'll be able to answer it.
		But in terms of calling a Security Council meeting specifically to talk about the IAEA report and what diplomatic next steps, I expect that would be at the beginning of May, after the April 28th report.
		Jeffrey, told me here in the briefing room and outside of the briefing room that he didn't know the specifics, I need to get an answer and I was wondering why.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/prs/dpb/2006/64902.htm (5463 words)

	Daily Pundit Archives
		Too bad that your reading of history is incomplete, and your interpretation of the PDB (full text is included here) is faulty.
		Also, the contender for the presidency in 1944, unlike the treasonous John Kerry and his shameless surrogates who have been viciously attacking Bush, did not make a single criticism of Roosevelt’s war record.
		But the notion that August 6th PDB contained vital information that should have been used to refocus the FBI, FAA, CIA and INS is silly beyond words.
	www.dailypundit.com /archives/013366.php (2980 words)

	WorldNetDaily: What Condoleezza Rice didn't know
		Because of the circumstances surrounding the 2000 presidential election, this was the shortest political handover in history and virtually all of the national and domestic security agencies and executive action agencies remained the same.
		Why wasn't Dr. Rice – the person responsible for briefing the president on these issues – told about these urgent matters before 9-11 and why was Dr. Rice still in the dark on some of them?
		Why are we straining at the Aug. 6 Presidential Daily Briefing gnat?
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38054 (802 words)

	Misleader.org
		Nearly one year after its creation, the 9/11 Independent Commission announced an agreement with the Bush administration Wednesday about access to the Presidential Daily Briefing.
		The White House had refused for months to grant access to the Presidential Daily Briefing, or PDB, citing security concerns.
		The commission is required to present its final report on May 27, 2004, which the law states should be "a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks."
	www.misleader.org /daily_mislead/read.html?fn=df11172003.html (327 words)

	The Controversial Aug 6 Presidential Daily Briefing : Fool Moon
		The Controversial Aug 6 Presidential Daily Briefing : Fool Moon
		From the Full Text of the Presidential Daily Briefing regarding President Bush's Pre Knowlege The following is the text of the August 6, 2001, memo sent to President Bush and marked "For the President Only".
		Re: The Controversial Aug 6 Presidential Daily Briefing
	foolmoon.com /showthreaded.php?Number=167610 (724 words)

	Stonewalling and slow-walking - Minnesota Daily
		Granted, the briefing's release is unprecedented and the Bush administration should be given some credit for it.
		Now, political pressure is calling for the release of 57 Clinton administration documents that the Bush administration has kept from the Sept. 11 panel.
		It is only right that Americans be allowed to judge whether that handling was a failure or triumph.
	www.mndaily.com /articles/2004/04/13/9208 (318 words)

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