Double standards

This is an interesting point raised by The Center for American Progress:

The 9/11 commission has struggled with the White House for access to the "Presidential Daily Brief" (PDB), a document presented to the President each morning with that day's intelligence. Only these documents can answer questions about what the Administration knew. The White House has denied most of the commissioners access to the PDBs – only recently, after being threatened with a subpoena, has the full committee been granted access to even a summary of their contents. But [Bob] Woodward was given extensive access to the PDBs for his book [Bush At War]. Newsweek reports that Woodward's book is "sprinkled with a number of precise references to PDBs." For example, on page 40, Woodward "quotes from the Sept. 12, 2001 PDB that CIA George Tenet gave Bush linking the terror attacks to Al Qaeda." In a separate newspaper article, Woodward gives details of an 8/06/01 PDB, given to Bush while he was vacationing at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. According to Woodward, the title of the PDB, given to the President a little more than a month prior to 9/11, was "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."

The CAP also notes that while Bush is only pledging a single hour for testimony before the 9/11 commission, he gave Woodward four hours of his time for interviews for Bush At War.