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