7/5/2001

“On July 5 [2001], he [counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke] assembled officials from a dozen different federal agencies–the Coast Guard, the FBI, the Secret Service, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and others–in the White House Situation Room. ‘Something really spectacular is going to happen here, and it’s going to happen soon,’ Clarke told them.”

 – Craig Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Page 236