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Originally posted by HarmlessRabbit
Actually, just a clarification, the WTC housed 2,800 federal employees. So, the intelligence may very well have included surveillance of the WTC, we don't know at this point.
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My point is that 9/11 was
not a conventional attack, and is not something that old methods of surveillance would have prevented. They were expecting car-bombs, not airplanes full of fuel. Even after the first plane hit the WTC it was thought of as a freak accident by most people, not an orchestrated terrorist attack.
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Originally posted by HarmlessRabbit
On February 15, 2001, the Hart-Rudman report said the possibility of "mass-casualty terrorism directed against the U.S. homeland was of serious and growing concern" and called for better information sharing among intelligence agencies. Perhaps had any action whatsoever been taken on that report, some of the evidence above would have been easily linked.
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It's easy to say now, but I seriously doubt you had any "Bush has to take terrorism more seriously!" posts in the first eight months after Bush was elected. No one really took terrorism that seriously, and there were failures all over.
The blame for 9/11, along with the loss of jobs overseas, should be spread around.