Ron Suskind, George W. Bush and the Aug. 6, 2001, PDB

Bush to briefer: "All right. You've covered your ass, now."

Published June 20, 2006 6:42PM (EDT)

Ron Suskind's "The One Percent Doctrine" is out this week, and the Washington Post's Barton Gellman says it's full of "jaw-dropping stories" about the Bush administration's war on terror.

Or lack thereof.

We've known for years now that George W. Bush received a presidential daily briefing on Aug. 6, 2001, in which he was warned: "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." We've known for almost as long that Bush went fishing afterward.

What we didn't know is what happened in between the briefing and the fishing, and now Suskind is here to tell us. Bush listened to the briefing, Suskind says, then told the CIA briefer: "All right. You've covered your ass, now."


By Tim Grieve

Tim Grieve is a senior writer and the author of Salon's War Room blog.

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