WTF Is It Now?!?

Scenes that should be in the miniseries but won't be
This one, from the actual Sept. 11 commission hearings:

CONDO RICE: I remember very well that the president was aware that there were issues inside the United States. He talked to people about this. But I don't remember the al Qaeda cells as being something that we were told we needed to do something about.

RICHARD BEN-VENISTE: Isn't it a fact, Dr. Rice, that the August 6 PDB warned against possible attacks in this country? And I ask you whether you recall the title of that PDB?

RICE: I believe the title was, "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States."

Now, the...

BEN-VENISTE: Thank you.

That is one of the most famous exchanges in American political history --- right up there with "at long last sir, have you no decency" and "there's a cancer on the presidency." Do you suppose it's in the fabulous new docudrama?

- Digby.

Or this one: A CIA agent flies to Crawford amid a flurry of reports of a pending al-Qaeda attack, to call Bush's attention personally to the Aug. 6, 2001 memo titled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States." Bush hears the agent out and replies "All right. You've covered your ass now," and goes back to playing golf. And remains on vacation the entire month of August, returning to DC after Labor Day.

Or this one, via BuzzFlash - As Americans leap to their deaths from the Twin Towers, George W. sits cluelessly reading My Pet Goat in a Florida classroom, endangering the lives of the children around him, until his handlers figure out what to do with him. Which seems to be shuttling him around the midwest for the rest of the day.