Bush's counterterrorism czar Richard Clark told Condoleezza Rice that six intelligence reports showed Al Qaeda personnel warning of an impending terror attack. Three days later he told Rice that that something very, very, very, very big was about to happen. On June 30, top U.S. intel officials were warned bin Laden planning high profile attacks of catastrophic proportion. In July, intelligence reports of an impending attack reached a fever pitch that led to the closure of US Embassies in the Middle East. None of this apparently got the attention of the White House. (20:44–20:54)
CLAIM
Asserts that US intel officials were warned of bin Laden's plans for catastrophic attacks in June 2001.
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