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In reply to the discussion: The Unidentified Queen of Torture [View all]90-percent
(6,956 posts)"She dropped the ball when the C.I.A. was given information that might very well have prevented the 9/11 attacks."
That's one of the many aggravating things about 9-11. Bush and Cheney "kept us safe" - well, yeah, after the worst terrorist attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor killed 3,000 of us. If you disregard that, they've done a great job keeping us safe. Oh, except for those 4,500 troops we lost invading Iraq and Afghanistan.
My take is that in the summer of 2001, when the intelligence security agencies had a system "blinking red", the GW Bush White House ordered a veritable stand down about all ongoing FBI and CIA investigations of possible terrorists from Saudi Arabia attacking the US. I think these orders were given to appease or please the Saudi Government, who GW liked to been seen with in public kissing and holding hands with.
My point is, if our intelligence agencies were given more freedom to do their jobs and they didn't have this child like internal competition between agencies, 9-11 could have been prevented. There were a lot of damn good field agents doing their jobs and if they acted as a whole they could have put together all the pieces of the puzzle. IN MY OPINION.
One other infuriating point about our government using 9-11 to transform into an authoritarian police state fascist Oligarchy is that the NSA mass surveillance program was begun eight months before 9-11 happened! This info from a long video from Thomas Binney, who helped engineer the program before he realized it WOULD BE USED AGAINST HIS OWN PEOPLE.
So, just another point that our government wanted to go totalitarian on us and treat us all like terrorists from a foreign country instead of as American Citizens with Constitutional rights WELL BEFORE 9-11 GAVE THEM CARTE BLANCE TO DO WHAT EVER THE HELL THEY WANTED IN ORDER TO "KEEP US SAFE"
Lastly, who in authority puts incompetent rank amateurs in positions of tremendous responsibility and then promotes them after their serious serial screw ups anyway? It sounds almost like if this woman had not been such a flaming incompetent 911 never would have happened in the first place.
Which brings up another question about 9-11. Nobody in America's vastly overgrown national security system even lost their job because of the mass incompetence that allowed 9-11 to happen in the first place! The only high intelligence official to apologize and admit responsibility was Richard Clarke, a national security advisor for the White House carried over from the Clinton Administration.
-90% Jimmy