Tenet and Black were unable to "convey their anxiety" to Rice. "Ms. Rice...we are really anxious that something is going to happen!!!" "Like what?" "No phucking idea" "Ok, thanks for your help"
On 10/2/06, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On July 10, 2001, two months before the attacks on the World Trade > Center and the Pentagon, then-CIA Director George J. Tenet met with > his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, at CIA headquarters to > review the latest on Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorist > organization. > > [snip] > Tenet had been losing sleep over the recent intelligence he'd seen. > There was no conclusive, smoking-gun intelligence, but there was such > a huge volume of data that an intelligence officer's instinct strongly > suggested that something was coming. He and Black hoped to convey the > depth of their anxiety and get Rice to kick-start the government into > immediate action. > > [snip] > Tenet and Black felt they were not getting through to Rice. She was > polite, but they felt the brush-off. President Bush had said he didn't > want to swat at flies. > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR2006093000282.html > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:216525 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
