You're quite correct. I found sources confirming that Cheney was the one tasked with examining the terrorism problem. What I was remembering was this:
"In July 1998 he {General Charles G. Boyd, formerly US Air Force} became executive director of the Hart-Rudman National Security Commission (->), "which already foresaw the growing terrorist threat to the United States well before the September 11, 2001 attacks."
http://www.bens.org/who_CharlesBoyd.html http://www.bens.org/who_board.html Larry K Smith, Chief Operating Officer is with BENS since 1992.
He was Counselor to Secretaries of Defense Les Aspin and William Perry in 1993 and 1994 and served as Chief-of-Staff
for Senator Gary Hart (->) from 1978 to 1982, who received an early warning (->) on an attack in September 2001 and informed Condoleeza Rice (->) on this info, who ignored it.
(-> early warnings) "
http://globalresearch.ca.myforums.net/viewtopic.php?t=30 I'm not sure how I would react to someone predicting a terrorist attack, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't ignore it. As a Minnesotan, I think that the FBI national offices treated Colleen Rowley very shabbily. As an American, I think that more than one head should have rolled in the national security area after 9/11.
No doubt about it, heads should have rolled, but then they didn't roll over Waco or Ruby Ridge, everyone got awards or promotions.