He did not want it to become an al Qaeda country. The President said he was worried about Saudi Arabia. The family was a complex organization, with different power centers. Crown Prince Abdullah may not know what his stepbrother is doing with certain NGOs spreading hate. The royal family, the President added, was not a monolith. The last (to change) will be Saudi Arabia. This stand had, the President commented, been widely disparaged. had to have a process to push them to change their ways. Some found favor with al Qaeda and the extremists, supporting their radical policies. "There was a sort of split personality there.
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The President said he thought that if there had been a serious concern in August, he would have known about it," the notes state.īush then said a "fundamental" problem facing every president was how to deal with the Saudis. The team would come over to work on this. Tenet was talking to Prince Turki about this. wanted to send a team to Saudi Arabia to alert Saudi counterparts about a potential attack. "He went over what was known to him about the al Qaeda and Bin Ladin threat. However, what wasn't known was some of the missed signals and the lack of information sharing between the CIA and the FBI.Ĭheney recalled calling the Saudi Crown Prince on July 5th. That 70 investigations were underway was heartening, that this was taking place." He told the commissioners the government was then developing a strategy to eliminate it. There was some operational data on the FBI. "Bin Ladin had long been talking about his desire to attack America. It said what al Qaeda was doing," the notes state. "The report itself was historical in nature. 6 Presidential Daily Brief entitled "bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US."Īs he had done publicly, Bush said it was more of a document summarizing what was known about al Qaeda than an assessment of current intelligence and stressed he had actually asked for the report. Commission chairman Tom Kean asked about the famous Aug. The notes, first reported on by the Wall Street Journal, also detail how Bush and Cheney were questioned about some of the intelligence controversies regarding the attacks. What exact authority Bush gave to Cheney that day has been an ongoing question since that time. Condi (National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice) heard his (the Vice President's) end of the conversation," the notes state.Ĭheney would then order the military to shoot down any unresponsive aircraft. The President approved this before 10:00. He opened up a line to the President and raised the issue of rules of engagement.
"The Vice President remembered getting ''word then that they were trying to cap up' over D.C. As officials tried to figure out how many planes were unaccounted for, they thought three were still in the air. Later in the interview, the subject of a shootdown comes up again. You have the authority to shoot down an airplane," according to the notes of the interview.
He understood the consequences for the pilot, how a pilot might feel to get the order to shoot down a US airliner.
He understood generally how this worked - one plane would lock on, one would ID. "He had been trained to shoot down planes. One district judge and one appellate judge remain in active service on the Supreme Court by appointment of later presidents.Bush said he understood the basic rules of engagement from his days as a Texas National Air Guard pilot. Other Article I appointments by President Bush are not listed.Įleven of Bush’s appointees remain in active service in the roles to which Bush appointed them: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, five appeals court judges and five district court judges. In total Bush appointed 193 Article III federal judges, including two Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States, 42 judges to the United States Courts of Appeals, 148 judges to the United States district courts and one judge to the United States Court of International Trade.Īdditionally, eight Article I federal judicial appointments are listed, six to the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims and two to the United States Court of Federal Claims. All information is derived from the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public-domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center. Following is a list of all Article III United States federal judges appointed by President George H.
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