This quote is scathing!!!!

[fearnobush]

The senior executives' memo "is not used as a way to transmit actionable (timely enough to act upon) intelligence," a senior administration official said.

So if the watered down memo is not to contain "Actionable Intel", then why was the Aug 6th brief altered (deleted) of the Actionable text!!! This is Proof positive of a senior administration official bumbling up the actionable Intel lie and spin.

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Typically, the senior executives' memo goes to scores of Cabinet-agency officials from the assistant secretary level up and doesn't include raw intelligence or sensitive information about ongoing law enforcement matters, officials said.


That is done to guard against unnecessary leaks and because that type of sensitive information isn't deemed essential to be distributed to all policy-makers, they said.


Terrorism policy-makers and those on the front lines get that information directly from targeted raw intelligence reports. For instance, CIA, FBI, Customs and immigration and White House anti-terror officials had received the May 2001 intelligence report about a possible al-Qaida explosives plot on U.S. soil shortly after it arrived and were investigating it by the time the president learned of it, the officials said

The senior executives' memo "is not used as a way to transmit actionable (timely enough to act upon) intelligence," a senior administration official said.

"Instead, policy-makers making counterterrorism policy receive their information about particular threats through a variety of other ways such as human source reports, signal (electronic) intelligence and law enforcement reports."

<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040413/ap_on_go_pr_wh/sept__11_al_qaida_memo>