Jack Linthicum wrote in
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On Feb 2, 9:51*pm, Ian B MacLure wrote:
150flivver wrote in
news:359a3711-b5ea-4741-
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On Feb 2, 3:08*am, hcobb wrote:
On Feb 2, 6:45 am, 150flivver wrote:

Exactly how was the Air Force supposed to prevent 9/11? *I guess
t
he
Air Force wasn't prepared to prevent the banking crisis or
global warming either.

Which service is it that's supposed to at least intercept hostile
aircraft in American skies?

Perhaps this also should be handed over to the USMC?

-HJC

9/11 was a criminal act conducted by foreign criminals. *Calling it

* * * * It was an act of war by a non-state actor. We quite prope
rly
* * * * took it at face value and opened hostilities on the actor
s
* * * * and their supporters.

war doesn't make it so. *Law enforcement is something I don't want
th
e
military involved in. *The FBI and CIA dropped the ball on this
one, not the Air Force. *Shooting down airliners filled with
hostages/ citizens is something the Soviet Union would do, not what
the USA does.

* * * * The FBI and CIA had been knecapped by Jamie Gorelick at K
lintoon's
* * * * behest. It was more than your career was worth to ask inc
onvenient
* * * * questions or, god forbid, share information. Many of the
necessary
* * * * dots were already plotted. They just could not legally be
connected
* * * * and it took an enormous effort against determined Dhimmic
rap
* * * * opposition to change that situation.

* * * * IBM

IIRC Clinton left office in January 2001, the FBI and CIA continued
their feud that says "I won't tell you anything you can use", and FBI

Funny you should mention that cause theres a PBS show on right
now about what was known about the 9/11 and how the FBI who had
agents assigned to the CIA unit tracking Bin Laden could not legally
be told what the CIA knew. So far all the narrative takes place
well prior to mid January 2001.

telephone taps that should have been tied to that "Osama bin Ladin
wants to do harm to the US" line in the PDB. As near as I can tell
that division still exists, perhaps expanded by the NSA being able to
say "I know something you don't". We now have an extra level of DNI to

Up until about two eeks ago any FedGov agency practicing that sort
of dog in the manger routine would ahve found themsleves assigned
to sorting through jihadi trash heaps in Indian country. Now that
Soetaro is calling the shots who knows?

add to the various inter service and interagency versions of that same
attitude. I would bet that more useful intelligence gets stuffed into
burn bags than gets into the PDB.

And yet the air over Pakistan is filed with the remains of recently
deceased al-Qaeda leaders.

IBM