'In the U.S.'

After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, a confidential CIA brief was leaked to CBS News. It was the CIA's daily brief to the President for August 6, 2001, just 36 days before the attacks. This document contained extremely sensitive, classified information, and its leak put the Bush administration on the defensive. Taking advantage of the fact that the document remained classified and could not be verified, the administration made false statements about its contents. When the brief was finally declassified two years later, during the 9/11 Commission, Americans were shocked by the extent of the lies that had been told. What did the Bush administration claim when the confidential brief was first leaked, and how did it differ from what was actually in the report? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #274.