Former CIA Director George Tenet quoted President Bush’s televised speech on the evening of September 11, 2001: ” ‘I’ve directed the full resources of our intelligence and law enforcement communities to find those responsible and to bring them to justice,’ he told a global audience of some eighty million people. ‘We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.’ For us at CIA, the new doctrine meant that the restraints were finally off. We already had on our shelves the game plan for going after both al-Qa’ida and its protectors, the Taliban, in Afghanistan. Now we could begin to implement it.”
– George Tenet with Bill Harlow, At the Center of the Storm, Page 171