“…Homeland Security head Tom Ridge had amped up fears just days earlier [in early July 2004] by announcing that al Qaeda was planning a major attack on the United States this year. ‘What we know about this more recent information is that it is being directed from the seniormost levels of the Al Qaeda operation,’ a top Homeland Security official said at a briefing [on July 8, 2004].”
– Peter Lance, Cover Up, Page 251