On September 12, 2001, after an FBI briefing, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) said: ” ‘We happened to know just today that we have information that indicates representatives that are affiliated with Osama bin Laden were actually saying over the airwaves, private airwaves that they had hit two targets.’ ”
– James Risen and David Johnston, “Officials Say They Saw No Signs of Increased Terrorist Activity,” The New York Times, Sep. 12, 2001