The incompetence of Harriet Miers

You can't make this stuff up.

Turns out that Harriet Miers is the one who handed George W. Bush the infamous August 6, 2001 PDB headlined "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."

E&P confirms it:

On its front page Tuesday, The New York Times published a photo of new U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers going over a briefing paper with President George W. Bush at his Crawford ranch “in August 2001,” the caption reads.

USA Today and the Boston Globe carried the photo labeled simply “2001,” but many other newspapers ran the picture in print or on the Web with a more precise date: Aug. 6, 2001.

Does that date sound familiar? Indeed, that was the date, a little over a month before 9/11, that President Bush was briefed on the now-famous “PDB” that declared that Osama Bin Laden was “determined” to attack the U.S. homeland, perhaps with hijacked planes. But does that mean that Miers had anything to do with that briefing?

As it turns out, yes, according to Tuesday's Los Angeles Times. An article by Richard A. Serrano and Scott Gold observes that early in the Bush presidency “Miers assumed such an insider role that in 2001 it was she who handed Bush the crucial 'presidential daily briefing' hinting at terrorist plots against America just a month before the Sept. 11 attacks.”

The E&P article focuses more on the way various newspapers captioned the accompanying photo, but the fact that Miers, like Bush, thought that this headline was insignificant says something about her fitness to serve in ANY government position, let alone on the Supreme Court.