“As Condoleezza Rice’s testimony at the 9/11 hearings becomes fodder for media pundits and begins to slide down the cavernous memory-hole of American mass consciousness, the one significant development that will emerge is the commission’s focus on the August 6 PDB (Presidential Daily Briefing). The memo is still classified, but information has been leaking out to the public about its contents since May 2002 when The New York Post screamed ‘Bush Knew’ from its garish front page. To date, it stands as the single most damning particle of evidence that President Bush had intelligence on potential internal threats by Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. Rice tried to fend off the implication that they had forewarning by framing the briefing as being based on ‘historical’ data. And stating that it did not contain any ‘new threat information.’

But the Democratic panelists would not let that stand. It started with Commissioner Richard Ben-Veniste, who drew first blood. Then came Bob Kerrey, who unilaterally declassified part of that memo and made Rice’s previous statements look something close to perjury.,,

The August 6 memo now represents the public’s sole opportunity to guage the level of prior warning the administration had before the 9/11 attacks. President Bush fought against Rice’s testimony and caved after a public outcry. Let’s see what happens as the 9/11 widows hit the circuit and present their case for full disclosure.” —Guerilla News Network