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First Person: The CIA's Former Counterterrorism Chief On The Lead Up To 9/11
This is featured in our hour What The President Knew. Editor's note: We connected with Cofer Black with the help of Chris Whipple.
Black is featured prominently in Whipple's new book "The Spymasters."
Cofer Black begins with a visual, inside the office of a man named Richard Blee, in the months before 9/
“By the time 9/11 rolled around he had stacks of paper along this foot wall.
The lowest pile was waste high.
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The highest was, I'm 6 foot 3, shoulder high," Black says.
Blee was the head of the CIA’s al-Qaida unit. So Black asked him, what's all that?
"He would say, 'Oh, that's for when we have the catastrophe and get struck and a lot of Americans die,'" Black recalls.
"'This is so the investigators know where to come, and they'll come and ask, 'Did you tell anybody?' And we'll say 'Yeah, there it is. Here's a copy of every briefing we gave on the threat.'"
Blee was prescient. After the attacks