not common in the 1990s including the director of the center a guy named cofer black legendary in my business who raise the profile and increasing the quality of people going over there and increasing the respective counterterrorism and pi before 911. make no mistake the piece for intelligence and the lack of focus on terrorism, meant the on the day on the day, the cia and the counterterrorist world was not only not prepared but they could not be prepared. they all talk to me about feeling before but especially in the searing months after 911 about feeling like they are the backflip. on the day, and this is not over dramatizing. everything change. years of debate about armed drones, done. years of debate about ralph in afghanistan, forget about raids. the cia will be first in with operatives and money technology, guidance within weeks of 911. forget about ralph, the u.s. army will invade afghanistan. the transition not only in resources but in attitude with sound to show. the cia directories asked if i sat in on the nightly beef breathing for years. we had about five or six reapers.