Despite intense media coverage of this document, almost no one seems to be providing the full text. Agonist to the rescue! Minor transcription errors suggest the text has been retyped from a document sent by facsimile to media outlets. This would explain why so few are as yet offering the full text.

[UPDATE: Reuters is now providing the full text (but not the accompanying Fact Sheet) at

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=4797260

if you'd prefer. MSNBC is providing a copy at

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4710772/

as well. You'll find the fact sheet at

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040410-5.html

as an "official" copy.]

(Intro by Reuters) At the demand of the 9/11 commission, the White House made public on Saturday a classified intelligence document from a month before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that told President Bush of al Qaeda plans to attack the United States with explosives or hijack airplanes.

The page and a half memo is entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside the United States."

The copy of the PDB that has been released is a copy of the PDB prepared for the President, except that three redactions have been made to protect the names of foreign governments that provided information to CIA.

Text of Presidential Daily Briefing from August 6, 2001

-- Michael Bloss, 38, killed while working as a security guard at the town of Hit, near Fallujah

Oprah x Lucy = Condi

Homer, to Bart: I want to share something with you: The three little sentences that will get you through life.
    Number 1: [whispers] Cover for me.
    Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss!
    Number 3: It was like that when I got here.

Celebrity Math

To better inform debate, researchers analyzed the domestic security structures of four allied countries -- the United Kingdom, France, Canada, and Australia -- weighing both their positive and negative aspects.

Confronting the 'Enemy Within'

The Bush administration expects to release early next week an intelligence document titled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States" that the Sept. 11 commission requested.

[UPDATE: The White House came through early. See my subsequent entry with a link to the full text.]

White House to release classified document next week

President Bush was told more than a month before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an attack within the United States with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes.

Bush Was Warned of Possible Attack in US

Very cool. "A better mousetrap" is very apropos. Sure beats 'locate'.

Quicksilver is an evolving framework for accessing and manipulating many forms of personal data. Existing modules include a launcher, a clipboard recorder, and a shelf.

Rattle wrote:
This is a truly awesome launcher app for OSX. Using keywords you type in, it launches a dynamic menu for picking to launch apps, open documents, visit bookmarks, etc. It's that much less you have to take your hands off the keyboard.

This may be the latest must have app for OSX. I continue to be very pleased with the overall evolution of OSX as a workstation platform.

Ooh, ooh, ooh
What a little moonlight can do

Quicksilver

"Those Blackwater guys, they drive around wearing Oakley sunglasses ... They are a subculture."

Thou shalt not raise private armies.

Sadr, do as I say, not as I do.

When Private Armies Take to the Front Lines

Lessig begs to differ, saying that [the copyright holders'] way of framing the debate -- as being just between those who favor property rights on one side and those who choose piracy on the other -- excludes the middle ground.

Yet another hollowing out of the middle ...

Lessig asserts that over time, more and more people will opt to pay for music subscription services.

I couldn't agree (and hope) more.

Creativity In Chains

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission) heard public testimony from Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, April 8, 2004 in Washington, DC.

You can watch her public testimony in streaming RealVideo at

rtsp://cspanrm.fplive.net/cspan/archive/ter/ter040804_condi2.rm

It's approximately three hours in duration.

The commission also announced today:

April 8, 2004 -- The 9-11 Commission today met in closed private session with former President Clinton. The meeting was held at the Commission’s request and lasted for more than three hours. The Commission found the former President forthcoming and responsive to its questions. We appreciate the excellent cooperation he and his associates have given to us.

Is there such a thing as criticism by reverse proxy?

Testimony of Condoleeza Rice before the 9-11 Commission [PDF]