Doug,
The memo had a plan attached as well as another document.
Condi could have taken issue with the plan, rather that declare that there was no such plan.

Clinton had sufficient intel about the training camp to launch his favorite weapons, and Clarke was urging the meeting to address issues that could be discussed for possible action prior to deciding on what to do wrt Cole:

The “plan” was from 1998, the other was a list of things not done, drawn up in December of 2000. I have my doubts about the former being a plan, and despite the chatter which occurred later on in the summer, there was nothing to indicate a strike on the US was imminent, at least nothing that made it through the bureaucrats to a principals desk much less the presidents desk.

And nothing, at least, that made it past good old “doc in a sock”. Meanwhile we had to replenish our stocks of Cruise missiles, and discussions were ongoing about what was desirable, what was doable or why.