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 […]
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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 […]
7/12/2001
“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.’ […]
7/10/2001
“Special Agent Ken Williams would eventually go down in history as the man who wrote the infamous ‘Phoenix Memo,’ suggesting that the FBI monitor flight schools for suspicious Middle Eastern pilots. He sent the memo to Bureau headquarters and the New York office on July 10, 2001…” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, Page […]
7/10/2001
In the summer of 2001, “the warnings [of an impending terrorist attack] continued to build at such a rate that the CIA’s counterterrorism team, led by Cofer Black, felt compelled to consolidate the threats into a single, strategic assessment for [CIA Director George] Tenet. On July 10 [2001], Black presented his findings to the CIA […]
7/10/2001
On July 10, 2001, “An FBI agent in the Phoenix field office [Kenneth Williams] sent a memo to FBI headquarters and to two agents on international terrorism squads in the New York Field Office, advising of the ‘possibility of a coordinated effort by Usama Bin Ladin’ to send students to the United States to attend […]
7/10/2001
“On July 10 [2001], [CIA Director George] Tenet and the head of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, J. Cofer Black, met with National Security Advisor [Condoleezza] Rice to underline how seriously they took the chatter being picked up by NSA [National Security Agency]. Both Tenet and Black came away from the meeting believing that Rice did […]
7/10/2001
“On July 10 [2001], Special Agent Ken Williams of the FBI’s Squad Five in Phoenix issued the now-famous ‘Phoenix Memo,’ warning of ‘the possibility of a coordinated effort by Osama bin Laden to send students to the United States to attend civil aviation universities and colleges.’ The memo, titled ‘Zakaria Mustapha Soubra,’ suggested that the […]
7/10/2001
On July 10, 2001, CIA Director George “Tenet and a couple aides raced to the White House and told [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice, [Deputy National Security Advisor] Stephen Hadley, and [counterterrorism czar] Richard Clarke that a ‘spectacular’ attack seemed likely in weeks or months. ‘What should we do?’ Rice asked. ‘This country needs to […]
7/10/2001
In reference to an urgent meeting called with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, then-Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) George Tenet wrote: “I can recall no other time in my seven years as DCI that I sought such an urgent meeting [on July 10, 2001] at the White House. Condi made the time immediately …[unidentified covert […]