Appearing on 60 Minutes on March 21, 2004, former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke “told [journalist] Lesley Stahl that on January 24, 2001, he had written a memo to [National Security Advisor] Condoleezza Rice asking for an ‘urgent’ cabinet level meeting ‘to deal with the impending al Qaeda attack. And that urgent memo wasn’t acted upon.’ ”
– Peter Lance, Cover Up, Page 147