Pointing blame towards the ‘wall’ which prevented the sharing of information between counterintelligence and law enforcement officials, presidential advisor Karl Rove wrote: “two of the terrorists who crashed Flight 77 into the Pentagon on 9/11 [Nawaf al Hazmi and Khalid al Mihdhar] managed to escape FBI detection the previous month [August 2001] because an agent on the West Coast was denied help from the criminal-investigative side of his own agency.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Karl Rove, Courage and Consequence, Page 294