Ignoring your list of "actions" that you want me to defend (or whatever you want me to do with it), my idea of a rational response:

"Condi, what are we doing about this? I see FBI investigations listed in the briefing. Are they enough? Are they effective? Is that all we are doing? Who is heading the effort to thwart this OBL guy? Do we need to assign someone? Recommendations? Report on my desk by next week, please."

Instead, in Bush's words, he was comforted by the information that the FBI was doing something about it.

Further, by one account, here is what he did instead:

What did George Bush do after receiving his terrifying second warning of imminent danger to the nation whose protection and defense he was sworn to uphold? According to The New York Times, “Bush "broke off from work early and spent most of the day fishing." Even though Attorney General John Ashcroft had already taken the precaution of ending his flights on commercial jetliners, the president apparently did not allow the threats we faced to interfere in any way with his month-long August vacation. Major airline carriers were not even given any special alerts to watch out for potential hijackers. If Bush took any action at all, there’s no evidence for it.

Ashcroft said in his May 2001 Senate testimony that "Our No. 1 goal is the prevention of terrorist acts." In fact, the AG was expending much of his time and energy focusing the bureau’s efforts on such pressing problems as cancer patients’ use of medical marijuana in California, and the operation of New Orleans whorehouses at the time of the attack. When he first met with FBI chief, Louis Freeh, as Attorney General, Ashcroft explained that his priorities would be two: “violent crime and drugs.” According to a participant in the meeting, when Freeh tried to direct the conversation toward terror and counterterrorism, “Ashcroft didn’t want to hear about it,” according to a former senior law-enforcement official quoted in Newsweek’s investigative report.

More significantly, Ashcroft refused to devote significant resources to the anti-terrorist cause. Just few months later—September 10 to be exact—the attorney general refused an F.B.I. request to add 149 field agents, 200 analysts and 54 translators to its counterterrorism effort. He did so despite the fact that the F.B.I. International Terrorism Section had more than 100 fewer Special Agents working on international terrorism on Sept. 11 than they did in August 1998. The Counter-Terrorism Center had only three analysts working full time on Al Qaida during 1998-2000, and only five on September 11.

The Justice Department’s lack of concern for terrorist threats—like that of the White House itself—had consequences down the chain of command. One month after Ashcroft’s testimony, in June 2001, veteran FBI agent Robert Wright authored an angry memo charging:

Knowing what I know, I can confidently say that until the investigative responsibilities for terrorism are transferred from the FBI, I will not feel safe... The FBI has proven for the past decade it cannot identify and prevent acts of terrorism against the United States and its citizens at home and abroad. Even worse, there is virtually no effort on the part of the FBI's International Terrorism Unit to neutralize known and suspected international terrorists living in the United States.

Wright would also claim that the "FBI was merely gathering intelligence so they would know who to arrest when a terrorist attack occurred" rather than actually trying to prevent the attacks themselves. (We should note that Wright asked, and was denied permission to speak entirely freely about what he knew to be taking place. Unlike Cowleen Rowley, he did not go the whistleblower route, and so only a portion of what he said has so far been revealed.) Later in the month, CIA Director Tenet, like Clarke a Clinton holdover, authored an intelligence summary for Condoleezza Rice in which he warned "It is highly likely that a significant Al Qaeda attack is in the near future, within several weeks.”

Ths is from here. Do a find on "Ashcroft on the Hot Seat: " to locate this passage.