Lots more info on the July 10, 2001 briefing.
"One official who helped to prepare the briefing, which included a PowerPoint presentation, described it as a "10 on a scale of 1 to 10" that "connected the dots" in earlier intelligence reports"
"Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and former Attorney General John Ashcroft received the same CIA briefing" "within a week" of Rice.
However late Sunday Rice didn't remember "the supposed meeting." On Monday, John Ashcroft was disappointed that he never received the briefing. By Monday evening, Rice's spokesman Sean McCormack confirmed that she'd received the briefing and had asked that it be given to Ashcroft and Rumsfeld which is was within a week.
The other part of their "defense" is that the briefing didn't say that al Qaeda was going to attack within the US, just US interests which could be a ship or embassy as had happened before. But it still seems they took absolutely no action as a result of the warning.
Apparently Rice offered to resign after the 2004 election, but instead Bush made her Secretary of State.
In the other part of the mystery, "Former CIA Director George Tenet gave the independent Sept. 11, 2001, commission the same briefing on Jan. 28, 2004, but the commission made no mention of the warning in its 428-page final report." No one seems to know why. Maybe the problem was it a was a PowerPoint presentation.
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