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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]