  Perhaps the 9/11 Commission finally got to the real root cause for why the August 6 Memo went so unnoticed. They asked George Tenet this morning if he ever met with or spoke to the President in August at all, and he said no. They were incredulous, they pressed, in the whole month, you never had cause to tell him in person how worried you were about Al Qaeda? You never even spoke on the phone? And finally Tenet said Bush was urlLink in Texas for August . Tenet added that he too took vacation leave in August in some attempt to take the heat off his boss, but I think the point was well understood.
I just want to note how amazing it is and how grateful I am that the Pacifica Radio Network is playing the hearings. I remember being 7 years old and at home during the summer of the Ollie North hearings. I remember it because I was bored to tears as a child when all programming during the day was bumped for the hearings. As an adult, I'm glad the networks made the decision to try to keep the US public in the loop. Now, unless you have cable, the hearings are inaccessible, except for Pacifica (90.1 here in Houston and kpft.org online). 
