” ‘We are going to be struck soon,’ [CIA Counterterrorist Center Director] Cofer Black told the Pentagon’s classified annual conference on counterterrorism [on August 15, 2001] nine days later [than the August 6, 2001, Presidential Daily Briefing]. ‘Many Americans are going to die, and it could be in the U.S.”
– Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, Page 569