GEORGE COLE

Clarke and most of the others were convinced that it was Al Quaeda. Clark recommended a retaliation on the Al Quaeda facilities in Afghanistan. However, the weak FBI director had not then yet figured out what military intelligence, and the other National Security operatives already knew. Tenant and his CIA was then an enfeebled organization with which the FBI would not even share intelligence with. Tenant whose record of being wrong hit its acme on Iraq and WMD’s was unwilling to make a judgment. President Clinton was unwilling to make the independent judgment and launch a military attack unless the CIA and FBI would confirm the culprit as he was being accused of using a “wag the dog” scenario.