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Old 04-11-2004, 07:25 PM   #27 (permalink)
HarmlessRabbit
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Originally posted by seretogis
The point is that the memo specifically suggests that a federal building may be in danger. The WTC is not a federal building. Bus, Subway, Fire, and Police forces are NOT federal services, but city or state government services.
I think you're tilting at windmills here. Maybe they thought the terrorists were observing the Federal Building across the street from the WTC towers, in the same complex:
http://photos.innersource.com/group/6176



The memo was a summary of intelligence distilled into two pages for the president. I think there was enough there to deduce that there was an imminent hijacking about to occur, from al quaeda operatives who were already in the USA, possibly involving a federal building in NYC.

Now, Condoleeza Rice can say all day that nothing could have been done with that data, but I disagree. The fact that the Bush Administration did absolutely nothing with the data, and with other reports given to them like th Hart report, is telling.
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