On July 10, 2001, CIA Director George “Tenet and his deputies met with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and her deputy to describe for them the nature of the threat reporting that the intelligence community had been receiving. …Tenet’s staff reported that bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders had been discussing a near-term attack, and that Islamic extremists were traveling in large numbers to Afghanistan and leaving countries such as Yemen. ‘Attack preparations have been made. Multiple and simultaneous attacks are possible, and they will occur with little or no warning. Al-Qa’ida is waiting us out and looking for vulnerability.’ ”
– John Farmer, The Ground Truth, Pages 56-57