to rouse Bush with that one, they issued reports with increasingly grabby headlines—“Bin Laden Attacks May Be Imminent,” “Bin Laden Planning High Profile Attacks”—as if bouncing horror movie titles off a hard-to-scare focus group. Eventually, they resorted to a President’s Daily Brief with a screaming headline dominated by one-syllable words: “UBL [Usama Bin Laden] Threats Are Real.” After the CIA’s intelligence analyst Michael Morell delivered this PDB to Bush on Air Force One, W. dismissively responded, “OK, Michael. You’ve covered your ass.”
