A stunning news-report at Politico on November 12th, titled «The Attacks
Will Be Spectacular», reveals that the then CIA Director George Tenet,
and his anti-terror chief Cofer Black, say that they had told the White
House this, but that the response coming back to them was «We're not
quite ready to consider this. We don't want the clock to start ticking.»
As Politoco’s reporter, Chris Whipple, then explains: «(Translation:
they did not want a paper trail to show that they’d been warned.)» It
can't get much more damning than that.