Good heads-up by Louise at the Daily Kos mentioning that, "according to an article published in Die Zeit, the German newsmagazine, in October 2002, the original PDB is 11½ pages long." The article's timeline for that particular date is as follows:
Crawford, Aug. 6, 2001. U.S. president George W. Bush is on vacation. He wants to spend the whole month at his ranch in Texas. Every morning, however, he still receives his Presidential Daily Brief, or PDB, wherein the CIA informs the president about the country's security situation. On this morning, the report is straight from the CIA director. His PDB runs 11 and one-half printed pages, instead of the usual two to three, and carries the title, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."Boldfaced type mine. As Louise says, "If 911 is becoming Watergate, then the 9-page gap is a weirdly creepy version of Rosemary Woods' '18 minute gap'." Actually I'm pretty sure it was 18½ minutes, but hey, who's counting... a half-minute or 10 pages here or there, it all just runs together...
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