Is it customary to give the President "historical" documents at a briefing

[patricia92243]

This seems like it would be a huge waste of the president's valuable time and confuse the president about what was CURRENTLY going on.

This means any president not just Bush.

[Florida_Geek]

1. Infomation going back only 3 months is not

Historical even if Condi thinks it is.

[Beetwasher]

2. MUST SEE LINKS RE: PDB'S

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB116 /

And a discussion from the other day on DU that was very good:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&a...

[cosmicdot]

3. couldn't get the DU link to work ...

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[leetrisck]

4. On CNN, they reported that bush specifically

asked for this particular one - so it there another one (as I asked on another thread). This one is being referred to as "historical document." Are all PDB's "historical documents." Why would he specifically request a "historic document" as a PDB? I'm paranoid - is there another PDB for that day? Do not trust anything they say.

[maddezmom]

6. Ben Veniste cleared this up at the hearing w/ Tenet

GWB did not request it. I'll look for the link

[sspiderjohn]

5. What a great question -- surprised it hasn't been asked on tv yet.

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