No one could ever have imagined that a National Security Advisor would forget a CIA briefing like this:
One official who helped to prepare the briefing, which included a PowerPoint presentation, described it as a “10 on a scale of 1 to 10″ that “connected the dots” in earlier intelligence reports to present a stark warning that al-Qaida, which had already killed Americans in Yemen, Saudi Arabia and East Africa, was poised to strike again…
“The briefing was intended to `connect the dots’ contained in other intelligence reports and paint a very clear picture of the threat posed by bin Laden,” said the official, who described the tone of the report as “scary.”
Actually, we don’t have to imagine that, because it actually happened.
Why is it that Rice has one of the top posts in government? Oh, that’s right–all those diplomatic achievements we’ve seen in Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Darfur, Lebanon, and elsewhere. It’s been a golden age at the State Department.