Honestly, when you guys want failures in the intelligence business before 9/11 look no farther than un-needed cuts and rollbacks of the intel world. The Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, all experienced rollbacks because they "weren't needed in this brave new world". And we went along with it, hey, the USSR was gone, who needs 'em any more? Well, apparently this was the philosphy of Slick Willy, and the fact that we can just observe people with satellites and make everything better. Clinton made one of the largest mistakes of any head-of-state, and that mistake is to cut off your information supply and to ignore what little you have left of those suppliers. Remember back in '98 when we lobbed cruise missiles into Afghanistan to "get" Osama bin Laden? Well, Clinton had the chance to push the button a little earlier and actually nab the guy, not just kill him, arrest him, but they all just had a two hour window. Willy being the military genius that he is decides to ponder over the question for an hour. Then for the rest of the two hour window, Clinton was "unavailable". Now tell me this, the President of the United States is never "unavailable" for matters in taking out a guy who had already tried to bring the WTC toppling down already. But for some reason we missed the two hour window and bin Laden would later come back to grab us by the balls. Now I believe that there was an intelligence briefing for the POTUS (President of the United States) about terrorist cells such as Al-Qaeda. But this was in JULY of 2001, a mere two months before 9/11, an apprehension of a man who can disappear faster than your mom's best chicken can not be done in a mere two months. It takes years of timing, preparation, and good old fashioned intel gathering to nab a guy like bin Laden. I mean, we've all seen how long it took for us just to get some of his lieutenants, almost a year and a half, and these guys aren't even as smart as bin Laden is. Sure security at airports was probably stepped up, but airport security is a joke, because it's not federally ran, and not professional enough, half of those guys probably coulnd't get a job at a McDonalds! So I merely advise that you look at the failure and arrogance of previous administrations for failures, not to an administration that only got such information two months before those horrendous attacks occured.
__________________
"This ain't no Ice Cream Social!"
"Hey Grif, Chupathingy...how bout that? I like it...got a ring to it."
"I have no earthly idea what it is I just saw, or what this place is, or where in the hell O'Malley is! My only choice is to blame Grif for coming up with such a flawed plan. Stupid, stupid Grif."
|