Following your EXACT LOGIC, if the Executive had followed up on the intelligence briefing of Aug 6, 2001 during the PDB in the Oval office that morning informing the President that a high probability of attack on the US using aircraft by Bin Laden was a high probability, there would have been no 9/11 and no dead men, women and children the day nearly 3000 perished.
The logic is fatally flawed! Future events cannot be foreseen by implementing 20/20 hindsight!
Here is a copy of the released PDB, which Bush released, you decide if what you said or what it says are the same thing.
The President's Daily Brief
Yes, that is a portion of the PDB,
but not all! One can read the entire declassified report here:
CNN.com - Transcript: Bin Laden determined to strike in US - Apr 10, 2004
Note the last paragraphs which state:
"Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with
preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.
The FBI is conducting approximately 70 full-field investigations throughout the U.S. that it considers bin Laden-related. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our embassy in the UAE in May saying that a group of bin Laden supporters was in the U.S.
planning attacks with explosives."
The then sitting President never followed up on that briefing. You may want to quibble about exactitudes of this or that, but then you would be going down the same path as the poster to whom I responded.
