Reply #5: A couple of things

[CaptainClark23]

Per cooperativeresearch timeline:

Meanwhile, CIA Director George Tenet was told of the crash a few minutes after it happened. A messenger gave him the news as he was eating breakfast with former Senator David Boren in a Washington restaurant three blocks from the White House. Boren says Tenet was told that the World Trade Center had been attacked by an airplane: "I was struck by the fact that used the word attacked." An aide then handed a cell phone to Tenet, and Tenet made some calls, showing that at least some at the highest levels of the Bush administration were talking about an attack at this time. Tenet then said to Boren, "You know, this has bin Laden's fingerprints all over it."

Also, I found this in a review of Woodward's book, Bush at War:

On the morning of September 11, 2001, CIA Director George Tenet enters his seventh floor office at the CIA headquarters and faces Cofer Black, a veteran covert operator who helped capture international terrorist Carlos the Jackal in the 1990s.

The CIA Director informs Black that the eight people monitoring the latest intelligence information from the sixth sixth floor of the just-attacked World Trade Center in New York are at risk.

"This is an element - we're going to have to keep them in place," replies Black.
"Well, we have to get those people out," Tenet insists.
"No, sir, we're going to have to leave them there because they have a key function to play in a crisis like this," maintains Black.
"Well, they could die," says Tenet.
"Sir, then they're just going to have to die," says Black (p. 9).




This raises a couple of questions:

1. If Tenet was at breakfast at the time of the attack, then returned to his office on the 7th floor at langley BEFORE the collapse of tower 1. Any DC du'ers can help me out on his drive time from Three blocks to WH to Langley? Is Langley the "headquarters" spoken of? Is there another?

2. Prior to the actual time of collapse, there was no obvious indication that the buildings were in danger of collapse. How is Tenet so sure his agents' lives were in danger if they were on the 6th floor, well below fires, impact, etc?