In hearing before Congress on February 6, 2002, CIA Director George Tenet “testily rejected suggestions Wednesday that U.S. intelligence services had failed to anticipate the [9/11] terrorist attacks. …Tenet acknowledged, however, that the CIA had not known of the Sept. 11 plot, which he said was held ‘in the heads of three or four people.’ He rejected any suggestion that the CIA failed to do its job. ‘Failure means no focus, no attention, no discipline, and those were not present in what either we or the FBI did, here and around the world,’ Tenet said.”
– Bill Nichols and Barbara Slavin, “Tenet Defends CIA on Attacks,” USA Today, Feb. 7, 2002