“On July 27 [2001], [counterterrorism czar Richard] Clarke informed [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice and [Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen] Hadley that the spike in intelligence about a near-term al Qaeda attack had stopped.” He suggested that, according to another report, “an attack had just been postponed for a few months ‘but will still happen.’ ”
– 9/11 Commission, The 9/11 Commission Report, Page 260