The One Percent Doctrine [antikvár]

PREFACEThe "what ifs" can kill you.Something missed. A failure of will. A turn in one direction when the other way was the right path.Over time, people tend to get past them. We did what we could, they say, and move on.But, in terms of the tragedy of 9/11, a particular regret lingers for those who might have made a difference.The alarming August 6, 2001, memo from the CIA to the President"Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US"has been widely noted in the past few years.But, also in August, CIA analysts flew to Crawford to personally brief the Presidentto intrude on his vacation with face-to-face alerts.The analytical arm of CIA was in a kind of panic mode at this point. Other intelligence services, including those from the Arab world, were sounding an alarm. The arrows were all in the red. They didn't know place or time of an attack, but something was coming. The President needed to know.Verbal briefings of George W Bush are acts of almost inestimable