CIA Director George Tenet told the 9/11 Commission that by late July 2001, “the threat level could not ‘get any worse’–‘the system was blinking red.’ …The collection efforts of the CIA and other organizations were not only bombarded with signs and reports of threatening activity, but the warning system itself–all those channels of communication intended to rouse the president [Bush] and the White House staff to alarm and activity–was ‘blinking red.’ ” [The 25th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Thomas Powers, The Military Error, Page 32