President Bush in his Meet the Press interview with Tim Russert, interview held 02/06/04:
President Bush: We have given extraordinary cooperation with Chairmen Kean and Hamilton [of the comission investigating pre-9/11 intelligence failures]. As you know, we made an agreement on what's called "Presidential Daily Briefs," so they could see the information the CIA provided me that is unique, by the way, to have provided what's called the PDB, because —
Russert: Presidential Daily Brief?
President Bush: Right. ...
I need good, honest information, but we have shared this information with both those gentlemen, gentlemen I trust, so they could get a better picture of what took place prior to September the 11th.
And again, we want — I want the truth to be known. I want there to be a full analysis done so that we can better prepare the homeland, for example, against what might occur.
Now, I don't know about others. But when I heard that, I understood that Bush would be showing copies of his "PDBs" to the 9/11 Commission.
Bush, Clinton Agree to Testify Privately to Panel Probing 9/11 Washington Post 02/14/04
The 9/11 commission and the White House reached an agreement earlier this week that provided the commission with a 17-page summary of President's Daily Briefs from the Bush and Clinton administrations related to al Qaeda.
But the deal angered some Democrats on the panel because it did not allow the full commission to have access to the original reports [my emphasis].
I guess I heard that wrong last weekend, huh?
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