High-Ranking Officials Admit 9/11 Could've Been Prevented

[aeon flux]

"This was not something that had to happen."
"They simply failed."

— Thomas H. Kean, Chair of the independent commission investigating 9/11. Kean is a Republican appointed by Bush
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"They don't have any excuse because the information was in their lap, and they didn't do anything to prevent it."

— Senator Richard Shelby, then ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee; member of the joint intelligence committee that investigated 9/11

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"I don't believe any longer that it's a matter of connecting the dots. I think they had a veritable blueprint, and we want to know why they didn't act on it."

— Senator Arlen Specter, a Republican member of the joint intelligence committee that investigated 9/11

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[kentuck]

1. So General Clark is right when he says....

this Administration did not everything it could do to prevent 9/11??

[Abe Linkman]

2. Premise is backwards

"This was not something that had to happen."
"They simply failed."

— Thomas H. Kean, Chair of the independent commission investigating 9/11. Kean is a Republican appointed by Bush


No, Mr. Kean, this was something that DID HAVE TO HAPPEN. I don't buy the "Wacky Cave Man Did It" Conspiracy. Osama couldn't have pulled off something that sophisticated. The fault is not in the stars. It is right here.

[pansypoo53219]

3. i don't agree seeing oasma already took on the USSR and won

AND we basically put blinders on(no, don't look into OSL, don't look into SA, don't let the airlines know that something might happen). shit, george went on vacation and DID NOTHING.

why, it's almost as if he WANTED it to happen.

[Stephanie]

4. George went on vacation for the Entire Month of August

It was unprecedented. It was almost the longest vacation in Presidential history. I think they just missed beating the record. It was interesting because he got some kind of an intelligence briefing at the end of July and then all of a sudden he went to Crawford for a LONG time.

And Cheney spent the entire month of August 2001 in Wyoming. Isn't that odd?

And then of course Ashcroft was Flying High - no commercial aircraft for Ashcroft, due to a "threat assessment."

It's almost like they knew something.