Narrator / Host (Tucker Carlson Show producer/narrator)

Those years coincided with George Tenet's implementation of what became known simply as the plan.

To formulate this effort, CIA Director Tenet elevated a man called Kofor Black.

a former spy who'd risen to head CIA stations in the Sudan and elsewhere, to director of the Counterterrorism Center.

To give you an idea of Kofor Black's character, in 2017, he joined Hunter Biden on the board of directors of Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company.

But at that time, in late 1999, the core of the future 9-11 hijackers were gathering in Afghanistan.

They must be found.

Here's a summary of some of the warnings they had.

In December 1999, a 23-year-old Algerian man called Ahmed Rassam attempted to cross with a rental car on the ferry from Victoria, British Columbia to Port Angeles, Washington state.

Thanks to alert border security in Port Angeles, Rassam was apprehended with hundreds of pounds of explosives in his car.

His plan had been to set off a car bomb at LAX on January 1st, 2000.

But the biggest warning signs of an impending attack in the United States came in the summer of 2001, just months or weeks before.

On April 20th, 2001, a briefing to top Bush administration officials noted that bin Laden planned multiple operations.

In May 2001, a report was distributed to Bush administration officials noting that bin Laden public profile may presage attack.

On May 16th, 2001, an intel report mentioned a phone call to an embassy that bin Laden's supporters were planning an attack inside the United States.

On June 12th, a CIA report indicated that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was recruiting people to travel to the U.S.

possibly to aid in terror attacks.

On June 22nd of that year, the CIA notified station chiefs about intelligence suggesting an al-Qaeda suicide bombing in the United States could be on the way.

At about the same time, U.S.

intelligence issued a terror advisory threat indicating a high probability of near-term spectacular terrorist attacks resulting in numerous casualties.

On June 25th, George W. Bush's counterterrorism czar Richard Clark told Condoleezza Rice that six intelligence reports showed al-Qaeda personnel warning of an impending terror attack.