Richard Clarke, chief White House counterterrorism adviser: We went into a period
in June where
the tempo of intelligence about an impending large-scale attack went up a lot, to the kind of cycle that we’d only seen once or twice before. And
we told Condi that.
She didn’t do anything. She said, Well, make sure you’re coordinating with the agencies, which, of course, I was doing.
By August, I was saying to Condi and to the agencies that the intelligence isn’t coming in at such a rapid rate anymore as it was in the June-July time frame. But that
doesn’t mean the attack
isn’t going to happen. It just means that
they may be in place.