Key Bush Intelligence Briefing Kept From Hill Panel
"Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda, according to government records and current and former officials with firsthand knowledge of the matter...read on"
Murray rips them apart. It's a long article, but has everything you need to know about the ginned up intelligence and all the players that led to the biggest blunder and con game in US history.
(Update):-Booman Tribune has more: "Bush and Cheney -- as well as Condi Rice, Rumsfeld, Powell, and their undersecretaries -- had solid information there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11 or Al Qaeda, but have refused to date to share this knowledge, contained in a PDB distributed ten days after 9/11, with members of Congress."
Arthur reminds us: Remember the Crucial Point