“Unhappy with the intelligence community it had, the Pentagon leadership created its own intelligence cell in October 2001. The Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group (CTEG) was created as a two-person unit to review intelligence on terrorism within Douglas Feith’s Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy; the members were prominent neoconservatives–David Wurmser, a former fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and Michael Maloof, a former aide to [Defense Policy Board Adviser] Richard Perle. The men trawled through raw intelligence reports from human sources, communications intercepts, and the like, with the aim of providing their own analysis. Individuals who saw the group’s briefing described a presentation that aimed to demonstrate the numerous connections between al Qaeda and a host of other terrorist groups and state sponsors.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Next Attack, Page 167