So Bush ignored the message "Bin Laden determined to attack", Does it really matter??

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144. Another such response is, "You covered your ass, now."

9/11 wasn't merely the result of "an omission to act". It was instead the culmination of a long series of increasingly risky decisions and acts that allowed terrorists known to be plotting mass murder to enter the country, that allowed them to plan and amass the means of carrying out the attacks, and when in the final days it became known to the CIA that these subjects were about to conduct the attack, to obstruct federal officers of the investigative agency charged with arrest of the suspects.

That goes beyond mere failure to protect. At the very least, it was conduct with depraved indifference to the loss of thousands of lives. It was the worst act of dereliction of duty in U.S. history. And, it remains official misconduct that goes completely unpunished and has seemingly been immunized by the succeeding Administration.

These are crimes so serious that to continue to allow them to go unpunished calls into question whether the rule of law still applies in the United States.