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
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 […]
7/10/2001
Quoting a covert CIA operative known only as ‘Rich B.,’ then-CIA Director George Tenet gave information from his meeting with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice on July 10, 2001. Rich said: ” ‘We have disrupted or delayed the current attack, but the UBL [Usama Bin Ladin] threat will continue to exist,’ he said. ‘UBL’s goal […]
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 […]