On August 6th, 2001 President Bush received a Presidential Daily Briefing entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” This was the PDB that current Secretary of State Condi Rice was grilled about by the 9-11 Commission.<\/p>\n
Yesterday President Bush nominated Harriet Miers, his former staff secretary and current White House Counsel, to be the next Supreme Court justice.<\/p>\n
We learn today that Ms. Miers was the person to deliver Bush the August 6th Presidential Daily Briefing.<\/a> A photo of Bush and Miers together taken on August 6th, 2001, was released by the White House and distributed to newspapers through the Associated Press.<\/p>\n What does this mean?<\/p>\n It could mean absolutely nothing.<\/p>\n Or it could mean that Bush is rewarding Miers for her silence on the subject of what he knew about al-Queda and when he knew it. Miers can’t really be questioned about what she knows–she can claim attorney-client privilege or Bush could invoke executive privilege.<\/p>\n The conspiracy minded may see a cover-up.<\/a> I don’t see one, but what I do see is something very murky.<\/p>\n Whatever one sees in as the reasons behind Harriet Miers’ nomination for the Supreme Court stands as a political rohrschach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On August 6th, 2001 President Bush received a Presidential Daily Briefing entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” This was the PDB that current Secretary of State Condi Rice was grilled about by the 9-11 Commission. Yesterday President Bush nominated Harriet Miers, his former staff secretary and current White House Counsel, to be theContinue reading “On Harriet Miers and Connections”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[273,356,795,595],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-george-bush","tag-harriet-miers","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-supreme-court","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}