In an explosive revelation during an interview with Politico, the former CIA director during President George W. Bush's administration claims his department informed White house officials over impending Al Qaeda attacks months before the president received the infamous "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." presidential briefing.

According to ex-CIA head George Tenet and Cofer Black, then chief of the CIA's counterterrorism center, they called an emergency meeting with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice on July 10 of 2001 saying they had evidence that an attack on the U.S. was imminent and that it would be "spectacular."

Beginning in May of 2001, Tenet and Black launched an initiative called "the Blue Sky paper" and pitched it to Bush's  national security team. The CIA called for a joint CIA  and military campaign to end the Al Qaeda threat by "getting into the Afghan sanctuary, launching a paramilitary operation, creating a bridge with Uzbekistan."