Excerpted from an article by John Solomon, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON – President Bush wasn’t the only one to get a memo in August 2001 about the threat of Osama bin Laden striking on U.S. soil. Senior government policy-makers got a similar document one day later, but theirs excluded most of the recent threat information the president had received, officials say.
The Aug. 7, 2001, Senior Executive Intelligence Brief didn’t mention the 70 FBI investigations into possible al-Qaida activity that the president had been told of a day earlier in a top-secret memo titled “Bin Laden Determined To Strike in U.S.,” government officials told The Associated Press.
The senior executives’ memo also did not mention a threat received in May 2001 of possible attacks with explosives in the United States or that the FBI had concerns about recent activities like the casing of buildings in New York, the officials said.