ABC terrorism analyst Richard Clarke one-ups Michael Chertoff’s “gut” with this report titled, “Summer 2007 Is Eerily Similar to Summer 2001″:
But a highly experienced analyst with years of sifting through such reports can tell when there is a difference, what we used to call “a disturbance in the force.” The quality of some of the reports is better. The quantity is up. What they say is highly plausible. Some tend to confirm each other and are not “circular reporting” (where one source tells many people and that results in you getting the same report from multiple sources). That’s how I felt, how George Tenet felt, in June and July of 2001. Its apparently how some analysts feel now.