" [Condi said:] ‘What do you think we need to do?’ Black responded by slamming his fist on the table, and saying, ‘We need to go on a wartime footing now!’”

Condi, Bush and Cheney's response, so so many words: 'Meh!'

The response to a previous plan to disrupt the attacks was met with: “‘we’re not quite ready to consider this. We don’t want the clock to start ticking.’” (Translation: they did not want a paper trail to show that they’d been warned