Bush Withheld Key Intelligence

The National Journal has a must read story today about intelligence presented to President Bush that made clear there were no ties between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.

Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda, according to government records and current and former officials with firsthand knowledge of the matter.

In fairness to the President, he simply may not have appreciated the significance of the PDB since it was not titled, "Saddam didn't do it.  In fact he had nothing to do with it."  I say this because a PDB titled, "Bin Laden determined to strike in U.S." was a little to subtle for him.