” . . . Discussing at length the atmosphere at the CIA after the terror attacks, Tenet said it was one of real fear and anxiety because no one knew when the other shoe would drop and end up killing thousands of Americans in the process.
“I’ve got reports of nuclear weapons in New York City, apartment buildings that are going to be blown up, planes that are going to fly into airports all over again, plots that I don’t know. I don’t know what’s going on inside the United States and I’m struggling to find out where the next disaster is going to occur. Everybody forgets one central context of what we lived through — the palpable fear that we felt on the basis of the fact that there was so much that we did not know,” Tenet said in the interview.”
http://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/publication.cfm?program=ISP&ctype=article&item_id=1271
http://ianlivingston.com/threatmatrix/handbook/wmd_fatwa.htm
That post was the most persuasive of what we have been doing here at Threat Matrix. Thanks Ian and I miss Piper
A terrifying admission - basically he’s admitting they were (are?) clueless.
http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress07/mueller042607.htm
“Congressional Testimony
Robert S. Mueller, III
Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Statement Before the Senate Appropriations Committee
Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies”
April 26, 2007
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http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress07/murphy042607.htm
“Congressional Testimony
Wayne M. Murphy
Assistant Director, Directorate of Intelligence
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Statement Before the House Homeland Security Committee Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment”
April 26, 2007