PRESCIENT PAUL BREMER

I can't get the original article but I did find this AP write-up from 2004:

At a McCormick Tribune Foundation conference on terrorism on Feb. 26, 2001, Bremer said,

"The new administration seems to be paying no attention to the problem of terrorism. What they will do is stagger along until there's a major incident and then suddenly say, 'Oh, my God, shouldn't we be organized to deal with this?'

"That's too bad. They've been given a window of opportunity with very little terrorism now, and they're not taking advantage of it."

Bremer made the speech after he had chaired the National Commission on terrorism, a bipartisan body formed by the Clinton administration to examine U.S. counterterrorism policies.

A few months after Bremer made those statements, the Administration officially states that Osama isn't in their focus:

WOODRUFF: The State Department officially released its annual terrorism report just a little more than an hour ago, but unlike last year, there's no extensive mention of alleged terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. A senior State Department official tells CNN the U.S. government made a mistake in focusing so much energy on bin Laden and "personalizing terrorism." CNN, Inside Politics, 4/30/2001