"Ah, so Strick's agenda is finally exposed. He is going to blame the Democrats."

GUEST, GUEST,guest from NW - PM claimed that the PDB was "planted" by the Republicans because there's nothing really relevant in it and I merely point out that it was Democrats that demanded it be released. We're talking about politically based actions within Commission itself. Where the heck are you coming from? Who blamed the Democrats for anything other than playing politics with this document?

"One of the interesting aspects of the PDB is that it did state that OBL might make attacks against the US."

pdc, not surprising since OBL had already made attacks within the US. BTW, I take it you don't remember that the air traffic controllers didn't exactly call the military, certainly not at first. Remember that everyone expected any hijackers to make demands, not blow up buildings. They were waiting to hear the hijacker's demands. That changed when the first plane hit a building, but, now don't be surprised, the air force wasn't exactly geared for rapid response aircraft interceptions over New York. It was peace time and they're plan for intercepting aircraft never assumed the aircraft was going to have taken off from Boston heading to New York. They're looking for planes coming into US airspace not traveling within it.

"So the story is that because the PDB didn't have the deatils of the upcoming attack that it was just some 'historical' meaningless document."

Bobert, there you go again. It's not historically meaningless, but the PDB also doesn't exactly provide much guidance on what was going to happen or when it was going to occur. Combine that with the implication that the FBI was working on the problem, what exactly would you have done with this information if you had been president? Which buildings does it tell you to protect? How do you make the logical leap from terrotist hijacking planes to force the release of other jailed terrorists (what the PDB warns generally about) to using them to blow up buildings?