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Monday, April 12, 2004

President’s Daily Briefing:  Rapid Response Mode

Fort Hood, Texas, April 11, 2004-- Stung by critics who claim that his administration did not respond adequately to the President’s Daily Briefing of August 6, 2001, George Bush insisted today that the briefing contained no “specific” information.  “The PDB was no indication of a terrorist threat,” the President insisted in remarks to the White House travel pool. “There was not a time and place of an attack.”

Echoing statements made on Thursday by Condoleeza Rice, who told Richard Ben-Veniste that the August 6 PDB contained ”no new threat information,” Bush argued that “we would have acted . . . any administration would have acted” if he had received more definite information from American intelligence services.

“Take right now, for instance,” Bush remarked.  “We received very precise intelligence this past week that there was going to be some mighty fine fishing and biking to be done right here in Texas.  They mentioned a place, a time, and they even mentioned a nice four-pound bass that had my name on it.  Naturally, we acted right away.” The President then displayed the bass to murmurs of admiration from the White House press corps.  “We’d heard a lot of chatter in the system this past week,” the President continued, “and we moved on it.  There’s no way my administration is going to let a big one like this baby get away-- not when we have the information we need for an effective, rapid response.”

David Sirota has the real deal here.

Posted by Michael on 04/12 at 10:56 AM
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