Bush has had problems with intelligence (yes pun intended)even before WMD scandels.
Officials at the CIA including the Deputy Director were "frustrated when some policymakers, who had not lived through such threat surges before, questioned the validity of the intelligence or wondered if it was disinformation...," 9-11 Commission Statement 7, p8
Two veteran CIA officers "were so worried about an impending disaster" that they considered resigning in protest and going public. 9-11 Commission Statement 7, p8
Although Tenet never criticized his boss directly in his testimony (just like Clarke defended Bush publicly while he still worked for the administration), this statement by Tenet is telling:
We considered policymakers' questions whether al-Qa'ida was feeding us this reporting to create panic through disinformationor to test our defenses, but we concluded that the reports were real. When some reporting hinted that an attack had been postponed, we continued to stress that there were multiple attacks planned and that one or more could be continueing apace. We grew concerned that so much of the reporting pointed to attacks overseas and noted that one of Bin Ladin's goals had long been to strike our homeland. P12 Tenet's sworn statement
Rice has insisted that the Aug 6th PDB was written in response to questions by the President, could these be the questions Bush, or more likely Cheney, were asking?
The Bush administration has a pattern of being too arrogant to listen to the warnings of experts or too busy pursuing their idealogical pet projects too notice what the experts are saying. The reasons the Bush administration failed to understand the immenent threat from Al Qaeda before 9-11 are the same reasons the Bush administration underestimated the troop strength needed in Iraq and the cost of reconstrauction.