They redacted the WARNINGS from foreign governments. .....

[Florida_Geek]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040410-5.html
Q: Why has information been redacted from the PDB?

The copy of the PDB that has been released is a copy of the PDB prepared for the President, except that three redactions have been made to protect the names of foreign governments that provided information to CIA.

Not only were the country names redacted but what they told ....

[revcarol]

1. We wouldn't want any "old European" countries to GET CREDIT

FOR TRYING TO HELP US,now would we?

[Nite Owl]

2. Has the 9-11 Commission

seen the whole thing and the redacted version is for the public?

[Florida_Geek]

5. I am sure they have the whole thing.

:)

[eleny]

3. Hopefully someone will leak that

Unless it contains the methods etc that should be redacted. After all, they wouldn't want to put CIA folks in jeopardy. </sarcasm off>

[nostamj]

4. "Not only were the country names"

I think you're wrong there.

I've seen the PDB on CNN and the redactions are VERY small. not big enough to include content.

[VolcanoJen]

6. Here is what I was able to write down from the ABC screenshot...

... of the PDB. They only showed one page; it was redacted, but not heavily. I paused the photo on my Tivo, and here is all that was legible on-screen:

After US missile strikes on his base in Afghanistan in 1998, Bin Laden told followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington according to a (REDACTED) service.

An Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative told an (REDACTED) service at the same time that Bin Laden was preparing to exploit the operative's access to the US to mount a terrorist strike.

In a full-page screenshot of the first page of the memo, those were the only two words which were redacted. I only saw the first page, and the words were illegible until they zoomed in on the above passage.

[Zen Democrat]

7. Oh My God, it's all there in the PDB --

Al Qaeda had agents already in the US who wanted to hijack planes, buildings in New York were being cased, Washington was a target, and bin Ladin wanted to complete the work of Ramzi Youssef. Youssef had tried to take down the WOrld Trade Center!

Was Bush, Rice, et al just waiting around for someone else to connect the dots and show them the picture? IT'S ALL HERE. They are already trying to spin this that there was no specific DATE AND DETAILS. Oh God, we're being led by idiots!!!!!