What’s New?
The papers are making a lot of the Presidential Daily Brief of August 6, 2001, that alerted George W. Bush to the chatter suggesting al Qaeda might be planning an attack in the US, an attack using hijacked airplanes. Also, that they planned an attack with explosives.
Boy, this bugs me. It’s not new. I read about that PDB a long time ago.
I understand that not many Americans pay as much attention as I do, but isn’t it the role of a free press to grab them by the shoulder and say, ":Listen, this is important"?
Oh, well. They know now that the President and his advisers knew something was up well before 9/11 and did little to stop it.
Fine. I still think Bush will survive politically unless and until there are big revelations on the Saudi Arabian front. I look forward to reading a book that goes deeply into the Saudi connection, "Ghost Wars", by Steve Coll, as well as the previously mentioned "House of Saud, House of Bush".
Alan Varela of the State Workers Comp Administration wanted training in how to talk on TV. He got it. The State – that is, you and me – paid $1,270 for his lessons.
That is the gist of today’s Albuquerque Journal story.
Annoying, yes. But what gets my goat is this – a Workers Comp Administration superior, one George Lane, defended the expenditure!
They do lose touch, don’t they.