re: Read the newspapers.
I think you are wrong. The briefings are good it the lack of intelligence in the reader that caused the failure.
Like if you get a briefing telling you bin Laden might be planning to fly planes into buildings how hard is it to figure that might mean the WTC? Wouldn't you ask for more information... like has any of his fellow terrors been learning to fly... I mean gees, how stupid are they? What building was his last target in the USA? Bush needed a target painted on the side of the World Trade Center before he would have been clued in. But, more than likely he would have thought it was a promotion for Super Target stores. If "stupid is as stupid does" then we have plenty of evidence to say Bush equals stupid big time.