The 9/11 commission also revealed Tuesday that President Bush and Vice President Cheney had seen a stream of alarming reports on Al Qaeda in the months before the now famous August. 6 memo. According to the Washington Post, in April and May 2001, the intelligence community issued reports with headlines such as “Bin Laden planning multiple operations,” “Bin Laden network’s plans advancing” and “Bin Laden threats are real.” The commission reported the CIA “consistently described the upcoming attacks as occurring on a catastrophic level, indicating that they would cause the world to be in turmoil.”