Reply #39: But it appears he was on the job

[JetJaguar]

and that is more bothersome.



August 6, 2001: President Bush receives classified intelligence briefings at his Crawford, Texas ranch indicating that bin Laden might be planning to hijack commercial airliners. The memo read to him is titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US", and the entire memo focuses on the possibility of terrorist attacks inside the US. National Security Advisor Rice later claims the memo was "fuzzy and thin" and only 1 and a half pages long (his normal daily security briefings run two or three pages) but other accounts state it was 11 pages long.

http://www.cooperativeresearch.net/timeline/main/timelinebefore911.html

August 7, 2001, Tuesday
SECTION: GENERAL NEWS
LENGTH: 556 words
HEADLINE: Bush rejects vacation criticism
DATELINE: CRAWFORD, Texas, Aug. 7
UPI
...

But Bush insisted that he was doing White House work, too, as he began day three of his August getaway, the longest sojourn by a president in three decades.

"I'm working a lot of issues, national security matters," Bush said.

"I've got some decisions to make," Bush added, apparently alluding to his pending announcement on whether to allow federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

...



http://www.google.com/search?as_q=working+a+lot+of+issues&num=10&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=working+a+lot+of+issues&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=images


Not sure if this link will work, if not just Google

"working a lot of issues"