Pavitt,James

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James Pavitt is head of the CIA's clandestine service. After german media revealed in January 2003, that german intelligence was observing Atta,Mohammad and his "fellows" since 1998, he still insisted, that they could not have prevented the hijacked plane strikes "that day": "The fact is despite everything we did, we and the rest of our government were unable to uncover the tactical information -- the who, the where, the how, and the when -- that might have given us a clearer picture of this deadly conspiracy" http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=2099516 (-> early warnings)