The offense in Bush's 9/11 defense | csmonitor.com: "We all know by now that, on Aug. 6, 2001, Mr. Bush received a briefing from the CIA warning about 'patterns of suspicious activity ... consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks.' That's not a 'historical' document, as National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice testified before the 9/11 Commission last week - that's an alarm bell that should have been heard.
But Bush wasn't listening, at least not closely. He said: 'There was nothing in this report to me that said, 'Oh, by the way, we've got intelligence that says something is about to happen in America.'' It was not a warning, he continued, about 'a hijacking of an airplane to fly into a building,' but rather about possibly 'hijacking of airplanes in order to free somebody that was being held as a prisoner in the United States.'"
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