WASHINGTON -- A day after President George W. Bush received a pre-Sept. 11, 2001, briefing on Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida's effort to strike on U.S. soil, government executives received a similarly titled memo that excluded information about current threats and investigations, say federal officials. The Aug. 7, 2001 memo, known as the senior executive intelligence brief or SEIB, didn't mention the 70 FBI investigations into possible al-Qaida activity that Bush had been told of a day earlier in a memo entitled Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US, the officials said yesterday. The senior executives' memo also did not mention a threat received in May 2001 of a U.S.-based explosives attacks or say that the FBI had concerns about recent casing of buildings in New York, the officials told The Associated Press. They spoke on condition of anonymity, because the senior executives' memo remains classified. Some members of Congress said yesterday they were concerned that senior executive memos and other similar documents may have given policy-makers working for Bush an incomplete picture of the terror threat...
If you read "The Price of Loyalty" and "Against All Enemies," you will see that intel that did not point to Iraq being the greatest threat to the United States was ignored by the people who filtered info to Shrub.