“In May [2001] the chief of the CIA’s Counter-Terrorism Center, Cofer Black, warned [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice that the threat level was close to the level it had reached during the millennium, when major plots were thwarted in Jordan and in the United States, including one targeted on Los Angeles International Airport.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Thomas Powers, The Military Error, Page 32