new effort instead. that is one of my most vivid memories. he said to me we re behind the 8 ball. and the reason he said that, which i didn t know why what he meant at that precise moment is we had information about this meeting with the pakistan scientist and bin laden before 9/11. november 2001. mill let larson and tenet at the direction of president george bush are dispatched to pakistan to confront pakistan s president pervez musharraf about the fireside chat that turned up in u.s. intelligence reports the possibility that pakistani nuclear scientists are assisting al qaeda in pursuing a nuclear bomb. president musharraf s initial reaction was men in caves can t do this incredulity, which we expected. it s the same incredulity we all felt. tenet and larson implore president musharraf to inventory
we had information about the meeting. november of 2001, larson and tenet at the direction of george w. bush are dispatched to pakistan to confront the president about the fire side chat that turned up in u.s. intelligence reports that pakistani scientists are assisting al qaeda in pursuing a nuclear bomb. president mushareef s reaction was men in caves can t do this. we expected that. it s the same we felt. tenet and larson implore president mushareef to inventory all of pakistan s nuclear material. then as now, there is no indication of anything gone missing. but now as then mushareef downplays the threat that what he calls men in caves might ever try to acquire such weapons. the extremists that are in pakistan. the taliban and al qaeda and