I served on the Intelligence Committee up until last year. I can remember after the bombings of the embassies, after TWA 800, we went through this flurry of activity, talking about it, but not really doing hard work of responding.
If the dateline of September 11, 2001 is correct, those words might come around to bite him in the ass...
The dates are 100% accurate, as per Lexis-Nexis.