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...months had passed since 9/11, and at the highest levels of government, officials were worrying about a second wave of attacks. CIA Director George Tenet was briefing Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in the White House Situation Room on the agency's latest concern: intelligence reports suggesting that Osama bin Laden and his No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, had met with a radical Pakistani nuclear scientist around a campfire in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Absorbing the possibility that al-Qaeda was trying to acquire a nuclear weapon, Cheney remarked that America had to deal with...
...Tenet's response was dispiriting. He told Bush and Cheney that interrogations of both the Bahraini trio and the Saudi trio still in custody had, thus far, yielded nothing. Saudi intelligence said it was keeping track of the whereabouts of the trio that recently had been let go. Short of al-Zawahiri, the only person who could potentially identify the U.S. mubtakkar cell was al-Ayeri...
...Kappes, who served in the Marines before spending nearly 25 years in the CIA, is fluent in Russian and Farsi and served in the Agency's Frankfurt station running operations against Iran. He rose to become deputy director for operations just before George Tenet stepped down as CIA director in the summer of 2004. But Kappes resigned in November of that year in solidarity with his then-deputy, Michael Sulick, after Kappes refused a request to reassign Sulick several days after an angry run-in with Goss' chief of staff, Patrick Murray...
...Leigh Teabing (Ian McKellen) to discover the meaning and whereabouts of the Holy Grail, a central artifact in Christian mythology. We eventually learn that, unawares, our hero and heroine have attracted the attention of rival gangs of learned loonies, latest in a millennial line of combatants over the central tenet of Christianity: Was Jesus human or divine...
Former chief of staff to CIA Director George Tenet and former director of the Terrorist Threat Integration Center; president and CEO of the Analysis Corp...