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UQ Wire: Miers Briefed Bush on Bin Laden Memo

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Miers Briefed Bush on Famous Bin Laden Memo


Miers Briefed Bush on Bin Laden PDB, But Papers Handle Photo From That Day Quite Differently
Editor and Publisher
Tuesday 04 October 2005

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NEW YORK On its front page Tuesday, The New York Times published a photo of new U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers going over a briefing paper with President George W. Bush at his Crawford ranch “in August 2001,” the caption reads.

USA Today and the Boston Globe carried the photo labeled simply “2001,” but many other newspapers ran the picture in print or on the Web with a more precise date: Aug. 6, 2001.

Does that date sound familiar? Indeed, that was the date, a little over a month before 9/11, that President Bush was briefed on the now-famous “PDB” that declared that Osama Bin Laden was “determined” to attack the U.S. homeland, perhaps with hijacked planes. But does that mean that Miers had anything to do with that briefing?

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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001221205

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