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...some point, when the nation has moved beyond grief and vengefulness, CIA Director George Tenet and FBI Director Robert Mueller will have to explain how the $10 billion-a-year anti-terror system failed, and how they can ensure it won't fail again. The answer is not a lack of effort. In 1995 Bill Clinton signed a top-secret order authorizing the CIA to run covert operations against bin Laden. Since then his every word has been analyzed, his international network has been diagrammed by computers, his movements have been tracked in hopes--all vain so far--of capturing...
...John Ashcroft and Robert Mueller are both briefing President Bush on intelligence matters each morning...
...Wednesday, FBI head Robert Mueller sent bank officials a list of 21 people wanted in connection to the attacks: "The FBI is requesting that all financial institutions check their records for any relationships or transactions with the named suspects," the alert read...
...Richard Armitage gathered his senior aides in the State Department's seventh-floor secure facility shortly after 9 a.m. Tuesday for a videoconference with the Administration's top national security aides. National Security Adviser Rice and her top counterterrorism coordinator Richard Clark were on one screen, with FBI Director Mueller and his senior aides, the CIA's counterterrorism director, and FAA officials on others. Vice President Cheney was supposed to be in on the teleconference, but the Secret Service had already spirited him off to a safehouse. "We knew we were in trouble," says one official who was present...
Rice stayed silent as the meeting progressed; Clark did most of the talking. Finally at around 9:45 a.m., aides behind Mueller started murmuring and whispering into his ear. Mueller interrupted everyone. "The Pentagon has been hit by an airplane," the FBI chief announced. All the State Department officials turned their heads to Armitage, who was running the building in Powell's absence. "Let's increase security outside the building," Armitage said calmly, seeming unperturbed. Another aide piped up. "We probably need to think about getting the hell out of here," he said. Armitage decided to evacuate, and an alternate...