” ‘I’ve asked myself a thousand times what more we could have done,’ [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice would later tell the 9/11 Commission [in testimony on April 8, 2004]… ‘I know that had we thought that there was an attack coming in Washington or New York, we would have moved heaven and earth to try and stop it. And I know that there was no single thing that might have prevented that attack.’ ”
– Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page xix