The official said that while the president was receiving his usual intelligence briefing, Card was watching NASA Television, awaiting the shuttle landing, when he saw that NASA had lost contact with Columbia.

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Mr. SAAD MOHSENI (Director, Tolo TV): The document was delivered by an individual known to our people and, you know, he was a card-carrying member of the intelligence agency.

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Bush, for example, reviewed intelligence briefings from 2001 and spent time talking to Gonzales, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and chief of staff Andrew Card, who was traveling with Bush in Florida on the morning of the September 11, 2001, attacks.

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