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05/15/02 10:57 PM: Why?
“President Bush and his top advisers were informed by the CIA early last August that terrorists associated with Osama bin Laden had discussed the possibility of hijacking airplanes, according to reliable sources.
The information, given to Bush as part of his daily intelligence report, lacked specific details about how the terrorist plans would be carried out, the sources said. The White House said last night that law enforcement agencies were quietly placed on alert as a result of the intelligence.”
I suppose someone would say hindsight is 20/20… which it is, but still, shouldn’t we have done something? ANYTHING? We had someone in custody that the FBI thought might “crash a plane into the WTC,” we had intelligence that al Qaeda was planning on hijacking planes… Last time I checked 2 + 2 still was 4?? Sheesh. With all these warning signs, we still let Mr. Atta and company onboard planes with their box-cutters. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? Oh, I forgot… THEY WEREN’T!
That’s Outrageous!
