Yellow Dog

In Ron Suskind's book, The One Percent Doctrine, there are some rather frightening revelations about Bush's pre-9/11 incompetence:

Tenet [former CIA Director] and his loyalists also settle a few scores with the White House. The book's opening anecdote tells of an unnamed CIA briefer who flew to Bush's Texas ranch during the scary summer of 2001, amid a flurry of reports of a pending al-Qaeda attack, to call the president's attention personally to the now-famous Aug. 6, 2001, memo titled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US." Bush reportedly heard the briefer out and replied: "All right. You've covered your ass, now."

Instead of just humoring the CIA briefer, it's really too bad that Bush couldn't have taken time away from his month-long vacation and work clearing brush to actually confront this danger and take seriously the CIA claims. Of course, if he had prevented 9/11, he couldn't use it as his favorite political wedge, could he?
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