Grant asks

"Jeff, what was the offical line after 9/11?"

Darn good question...Here ya go...full transcript of President Bush's remarks from the night of September 11, 2001

http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010911-16.html

Snipped the pertinent part for easy readin'

"...The search is underway for those who are behind these evil acts. I've directed the full resources of our intelligence and law enforcement communities to find those responsible and to bring them to justice. We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them..."

See the difference?  This doesn't wildly point fingers in the wrong direction, or provide inaccurate information that we may or may not have had good intel on yet. It doesn't assume facts not in evidence, as President Obama's administration's statements clearly did.   This is what a presidential briefing is supposed to look like, not "Look over here, but whatever you do, do NOT look here! It wasn't this thing, nope! Nothing to see here, folks! Move along!"