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January 22, 2003: CIA Deputy Director Says Intelligence Was Insufficient to Prevent 9/11

2003-01-22

CIA Deputy Director for Operations James Pavitt says he is convinced that all the intelligence the CIA had on September 11, 2001, could not have prevented the 9/11 attacks. “It was not as some have suggested, a simple matter of connecting the dots,” he claims. [Reuters, 1/23/2003]