Bruce Riedel: Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology Director - The Intelligence Project
Not long after the attacks on the U.S., Condoleeza Rice testified before Congress, saying that she did not know the “time and place” of the pending attacks by Al-Qaeda / Taliban upon the United States (terra firma).
Report of the Joint [Congressional] Inquiry into the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001:
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/CRPT-107srpt351-5.pdf
Pg. 118 of the report, aka pg. 150 of that PDF file:
17. Finding: Despite intelligence reporting from 1998 through the summer of 2001 indicating that Usama Bin Ladin’s terrorist network intended to strike inside the United States, the United States Government did not undertake a comprehensive effort to implement defensive measures in the United States.
[Further down that page:]
“The intelligence that was acquired and shared by the Intelligence Community was not specific as to time and place, but should have been sufficient to prompt action to insure a heightened sense of alert and implementation of additional defensive measures.”
Crazy how you remember things. This man writes of Saturday.
The Saturday before the atrocity, I was up in western MD looking at German Shepherd puppies. Stayed with my aunt and uncle overnight as they lived nearby.
Happy time, then not.