Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US
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- This is a declassified intelligence briefing dated August 2001 which was part of the lead up to the 9/11 attacks in the United States. It holds two important places in US history. In the first case, President Bush's response of "All right. You've covered your ass." has been erroneously linked to this PDB. This response, however, came from a separate PDB linked to Bin Laden from several months earlier. During 2001, CIA analysts produced several reports warning of imminent attacks by Bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Senior officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney and staff from Donald Rumsfeld's office at the Department of Defense, questioned whether these reports might not be deception on the part of al-Qaeda, purposely designed to needlessly expend resources in response. After reevaluating the legitimate risks of these recent reports, CIA analysts produced a report titled "UBL [Usama Bin Laden] Threats Are Real". It was after this report that the president gave that now-infamous response. In the second case, former CIA director George Tenet considered the PDB so sensitive that during July 2000 he indicated to the National Archives and Records Administration that none of them could be released for publication "no matter how old or historically significant it may be." During a briefing on May 21, 2002, Ari Fleischer, former White House Press Secretary, characterized the PDB as "the most highly sensitized classified document in the government." That makes any such report extraordinarily rare, and this report, having been leaked in 2002 before the release of a limited number of these reports from JFK, LBJ, Nixon, and Ford presidencies, would be both the first ever released and the most recently brief that we know of. Forth these reasons, I am nominating this image for FP status. I'm aware that the one side is a little below 1500px, however I believe that this is due to the size of a stand sheet of paper (8.5 x 11 in) and therefore, even it was 1500 x 1500 min, would not detract from the meaning or the importance of the memo, particularly in light of the above stated facts.
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- Support as nominator – TomStar81 (Talk) 20:48, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
- Oppose – Not readily legible. – Sca (talk) 12:51, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- Oppose – Looks like a copy of a copy of a faxed document... --Janke | Talk 18:36, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- Oppose - It's just text. The helper5667 (talk) 17:08, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
- Comment – Is this the leaked version of 2002, or is it the released version of 2004? I support if this is the released version. Bammesk (talk) 01:47, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 21:15, 22 June 2022 (UTC)