“On July 12 of that year [2001], Assistant FBI Director Dale Watson, chief of the counterterrorism division, told the National Governors Association that a significant terrorist attack was likely on U.S. soil. ‘I’m not a gloom-and-doom-type person,’ he said. ‘But I will tell you this. [We are] headed for an incident inside the United States.’ […]
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7/12/2001
Acting FBI Director Thomas “Pickard opened the next briefing, on July 12, 2001, with the latest on the CIA warnings about an al-Qaeda attack. ‘We’re at a very high level of chatter that something big is about to happen. …The CIA is very alarmed…’ ” – Philip Shenon, The Commission, Page 247 […]
7/12/2001
Acting FBI Director Tom Pickard raised the concern of the threat of an al Qaeda attack in a July 5, 2001, meeting with Attorney General John Ashcroft. “Yet, Pickard testified to the 9/11 commission that when he tried to brief Ashcroft just a week later, on July 12 [2001], about the terror threat inside the […]
7/10/2001
“The CIA prepared a briefing paper on July 10 [2001] for senior Bush administration officials: ‘Based on a review of all-source reporting over the last five months, we believe that [bin Laden] will launch a significant terrorist attack against U.S. and/or Israeli interests in the coming weeks. The attack will be spectacular and designed to […]
7/10/2001
In a New York Times op-ed piece on July 10, 2001, titled ‘The Declining Terrorist Threat,’ former State Department counterterrorism official Larry C. Johnson mistakenly described al Qaeda “as a ‘loose amalgam of people with a shared ideology, but a very limited direction.’ ” – Peter Lance, Triple Cross, Page 384 […]
7/10/2001
During a July 10, 2001, meeting of CIA Director George Tenet and Counterterrorism Chief Cofer Black with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, “Black calculated that if they [the Bush Administration] had given him $500 million of covert action funds right then and reasonable authorizations from the president to go kill bin Laden, he would have […]
7/10/2001
CIA Director George “Tenet looked back on his July 10, 2001, meeting with [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice, two months before 9/11, as a tremendous lost opportunity to prevent or disrupt the 9/11 attacks.” – Bob Woodward, State of Denial, Page 79 […]
7/10/2001
The FBI office in ” ‘Phoenix believes that the FBI should accumulate a listing of civil aviation universities/colleges around the country,’ FBI special agent Kenneth Williams wrote to FBI headquarters…on July 10, 2001. His five-page memorandum would be a key warning that went unheeded by the FBI. If it had been acted upon, there is […]
7/10/2001
FBI Special Agent Kenneth Williams’ Phoenix memo, sent to FBI headquarters on July 10, 2001, “warned that bin Laden might be sending terrorists to U.S. flight schools, identified two men with ties to al Qaeda, and stated that several of the men were, in FBI parlance, ‘of investigative interest.’ Several of the men had been […]
7/10/2001
Even though the Phoenix memo of July 10, 2001, by FBI Agent Kenneth Williams was sent to the FBI’s National Security Division, “the failure to act on Williams’s recommendation to investigate flight training by Islamic radicals was a blunder of monumental proportions. The information was not taken seriously by the FBI, it did not get […]