The Real-Life '24' of Summer 2008
By Frank Rich
July 13, 2008 | New York Times
[Excerpt:]
'By March 2000, according to the C.I.A.'s inspector general, "50 or 60 individuals" in the agency knew that two Al Qaeda suspects — soon to be hijackers — were in America. But there was no urgency at the top. Thomas Pickard, the acting F.B.I. director that summer, told Ms. Mayer that when he expressed his fears about the Qaeda threat to Mr. Ashcroft, the attorney general snapped, '"I don't want to hear about that anymore!"'
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