Listening to msnbc 9/11 coverage, something really bothering me

[JDPriestly]

36. I translate your post, Whiskeytide: Our military leadership was incompetent and lacked the

imagination and foresight to prepare for an actual terrorist attack ALTHOUGH BUSH WAS WARNED WEEKS AND MONTHS BEFOREHAND THAT SUCH AN ATTACK MIGHT BE IMMINENT.

It was incompetence on the part of the Bush administration and reluctance on the part of the military to risk getting Bin Laden during the Clinton administration. Either way, the US was not well served by our security bureaucracy.

The members of our security bureaucracy are just human, so we can't expect perfection. But they need to admit to the errors they made and concede that, like the rest of us and the rest of our government, they are just human and prone to error.

Unfortunately, the security bureaucracy likes to collect a lot of information on us little folk but do not want to focus on the really essential things.

The 9/11 fiasco may have been partly due to the fact that our security bureaucracy collects too much information and cannot discern quickly enough what is important and what is not.