Hey, don't blame me. I'm only the President!

This NYT Article quotes the Dubya:

I am satisfied that I never saw any intelligence that indicated there was going to be an attack on America — at a time and a place, an attack

Doesn't this strike you as odd? The administration keeps pressing on the fact that there was no intellegence "of a time and place of an attack". Well, that would have been serendipitous had they been tipped off as to the time and place. However, don't you think that if the FAA had been made aware of the threat that they might have responded differently when they figured out 90 minutes before the planes actually struck the WTC and Pentagon that there had been multiple hijackings? Might the added vigilance of the security screeners have possibly caught one of the hijackers before they boarded?

If you ask me, there should have been a few more people running around with their hair on fire. It might have at least allowed someone to put two and two together a bit more quickly.

But what I find really odd is that few are picking up on the "lacked sufficient details" excuse. There weren't additional details because the Dubya can't be bothered to read through these boring briefs every day. Don't you wonder whether the details of the analysis that would have been present in any other president's brief might have prompted areas of additional inquiry?