President's Daily Briefing
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Image:USPresidentialSeal.jpg The President's Daily Briefing or Bulletin (PDB) is a top secret document produced each morning for the President of the United States. Responsibility for producing the PDB — which was traditionally held by the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) — was transferred to the new Director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte, after he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 21, 2005<ref>CIA to Cede President's Brief to Negroponte, a February 19, 2005 Washington Post article</ref>. It is intended to provide the president with new international intelligence warranting attention, and analysis of sensitive international situations. The CIA produced the first PDB in 1964, though it had of course produced briefs for the president before.
George Tenet considered the PDB so sensitive that in July 2000 he took the position with the National Archives and Records Administration that none of them could be released for publication "no matter how old or historically significant it may be"<ref>Under Bush, the Briefing Gets Briefer, a May 24, 2002 Washington Post article</ref>. Image:Bin-ladin-pdb-corner.jpg During a briefing on May 21, 2002, Ari Fleischer, former White House Press Secretary, characterized the PDB as "the most highly sensitized classified document in the government"<ref>Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer on May 21, 2002, from the website of the White House</ref>.
The PDB came under increased public awareness during testimony in front of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, which was convened in 2004 to analyze the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States of America. On April 8, 2004, after testimony by then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, the Commission renewed calls for the declassification of a PDB from August 6, 2001, entitled Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US. Two days later, the White House complied, and released the document with minimal redactions.
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