Not my tip, but from a caller on the Randi Rhodes show (I can't remember the name of the guy).
In summary, Tenet briefed bush on August 24th, 2001 at the Crawford ranch one day after Tenet learned about Moussaoui!
So Bush and/or Tenet is lying to cover something up here.
Here we have Tenet's 9/11 commission testimony...
MR. ROEMER: And you have the information [from the F.B.I.] at that point [August 2001] on Moussaoui?
A. Yes, I was briefed on Moussaoui in late August.
Q. August what?
A. I believe it's the 23rd or the 24th. . . .
Q. Now, do you all share this information then with other people at C.T.C. [Counterterrorist Center] and F.B.I. and other places? What do you do with this information?
A. . . . I believe in that time period we immediately tried to undertake a way to figure out how to help the F.B.I. get data and deal with this particular problem. But I'd really want to go back and check records.
Q. With this interesting, curious, fascinating piece of data, do you share this data at the Sept. 4 principals' meeting with other people in the room at that point, when you're discussing this policy that has taken seven months to make its way through the process on Al Qaeda?
A. It wasn't discussed at the principals' meeting, since we're having a separate agenda. . . .
Q. Would it -- made any difference, if you had mentioned -- did you ever mention it, for instance, to the president, you're briefing the president from Aug. 6 on ----
A. I didn't see the president. I was not in briefings with him during this time. He was on vacation. I was here.
Q. You didn't see the president between Aug. 6, 2001, and Sept. 10?
A. Well, no, but before. Saw him after Labor Day, to be sure.
Q. So you saw him Sept. 4 at the principals' meeting?
A. He was not at the principals' meeting.
Q. Well, you don't see him ----
A. Condoleezza Rice -- I saw him in this time frame, to be sure.
Q. O.K., I'm just confused. You see him on Aug. 6th with the P.D.B. [President's Daily Brief].
A. No, I do not, sir. I'm not there.
Q. O.K., you're not the . . . When do you see him in August?
A. I don't believe I do.
Q. You don't see the president of the United States once in the month of August?
A. He's in Texas, and I'm either here or on leave for some of that time. So I'm not here.
Q. So who's briefing him on the P.D.B.'s?
A. The briefer himself. We have a presidential briefer.
Q. So -- but you never get on the phone or in any kind of conference with him to talk, at this level of high chatter and huge warnings during the spring and summer, to talk to him, through the whole month of August?
A. Talked to -- we talked to him directly throughout the spring and early summer, almost every day ----
Q. But not in August?
A. In this time period, I'm not talking to him, no. . . .
Now here's President Bush on August 25th, 2001...
THE PRESIDENT: Actually, you know, what we call the governor's house, the place where you all came out during the -- that's where we went. Condi and Karen Hughes stayed there. And right across the street from that is a -- it's a nice looking government doublewide. (Laughter.) And that's where the mil aide, the nurse, the WHCA head, the doc, they stay.
The CIA briefings, I have on our porch, the end of our porch looking out over the lake. When Tenet came up, that's where we visited, out there.
You know, everybody wants to see the ranch, which I'm proud to show it off. So George Tenet and I -- yesterday, we piled in the new nominees for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Vice Chairman and their wives and went right up the canyon.
So what the hell is going on. I can't believe that Tenet hasn't heavily reviewed his Aug '01 appointment calendar by now considering all the attention being paid to it.
So the BIG question is why did he lie about it? I mean wouldn't you think that being able to say he briefed the president in August would sound better than not at all. Of course it could be the content of the discussion would look incredibly bad (post Aug-6th PDB AND post-Moussaoui discovery).
So what's going on here?!?