March 25, 2004
"Had I known that the enemy was going to use airplanes to strike America, to attack us, I would have used every resource, every asset, every power of the government, to protect the American people," Bush said.
August 6, 2001
On August 6, President George Bush received an intelligence briefing, titled "Bin Laden determined to strike in the U.S." that warned that bin Laden might attempt to hijack airplanes and that the Saudi millionaire's terrorist organization wanted `to bring the fight to America.' This information was relayed to Bush after he had previously been supplied with intelligence of a more generalized quality that had indicated that al Qaeda was planning to attack the U.S. or U.S. interests abroad.
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Incredibly, the New York Times later
reports that Bush "broke off from work early and spent most of the day fishing."
Washington Post, 5/18/02
CBS News 5/16/02
CBS News 5/17/02
Independent 5/19/02
Senate Intelligence Committee 9/18/02a