“Despite [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice’s testimony before the 9/11 Commission that the Bush administration was at battle stations during the summer of 2001, in a wide-ranging and emblematic interview with Fox News on the night of August 6 [2001]–the same day that President Bush had been briefed that there were dozens of investigations into possible al-Qaeda cells in the United States–Rice chose to discuss the troubled situation in Israel, the administration’s missile defense plans, and its relations with Russia. The threat from al-Qaeda, bin Laden, and terrorism went unmentioned.”
– Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 49