Posted on 09/11/2023 1:27:04 PM PDT by Rummyfan
It’s not the 10 or 20-year marker but that is no reason miss the lesson of September 11, 2001 most relevant in 2023 moving forward: the failure of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. As the people might recall, the bureau also slipped up on the prequel.
In 1993, the FBI failed to prevent Islamic terrorists from bombing the World Trade Center, which claimed six victims. The lessons went unlearned. For all its money, power and resources, the FBI failed to prevent terrorists from hijacking airliners and crashing them into the Pentagon and World Trade Center.
“September 11, 2001, was a day of unprecedented shock and suffering in the history of the United States,” proclaimed The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States. “The nation was unprepared,” notes the 2004 report, including an agency that should have been the best prepared, the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
“The domestic agencies never mobilized in response to the threat,” the commission concluded. “They didn’t have a plan,” and “the public was not warned.” The FBI Inspector General contributed to the report, so FBI incompetence was doubtless worse than indicated. No word about any FBI bosses losing their jobs over the failure, which continued apace.
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The FBI didn’t fail at all. They let this happen.
Yes. Gorelick should be dead.
And Bill Clinton agreed with separation of FBI and CIA intelligence.
They knew middle eastern men were taking flying lessons. Schools reported they only wanted to learn to fly and not take off and landing.
Ignored.
But don’t worry, they are laser focused on domestic white “terrorist”.
Accountability in a government agency, lol, good one.
Kinda like most all of these "mass shooters" are known to the FBI before the crime. Ignored.
In the Ruby Ridge siege of 1992, brought on by an entrapment scheme, the FBI deployed some 400 heavily armed agents, helicopters, and armored personnel carriers against Randy Weaver and his family. The rules of engagement allowed deadly force against any family member seen with a firearm, but in effect it was shoot on sight.
On August 22, 1992, FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shot dead Randy’s wife Vicki Weaver as she held her infant daughter. Vicki Weaver was unarmed, not under arrest, and not wanted for any crime. Snipers are trained carefully “to acquire” the target, so there is little chance the shooting was accidental.
That’s the thing about massive intelligence/security failures. The punishment is always dramatically increased budgets for all the alphabet agencies.
Freegards
Clinton knew about UBL in the 90’s, showed the typical Leftist double-minded equivocalness and weakness, did nothing to prevent UBL’s ongoing attacks on the US, and emboldened UBL to ratchet up those attacks.
As usual, the REAL enemy of the U.S. wasn’t/isn’t UBL, China, or the Man in the Moon, it is The Leftist federal government.
But.....but.....OBL built hospitals!
Clinton and his DoJ spent more time going after Bill Gates for perceived crimes than they did going after UBL and Al Queada. And after the USS Cole was bombed in Yemen (it should have never made a port call in Yemen, but that's another Clinton failure!), what did he do? Send the FBI to Yemen to investigate! What a crock of sh*t.....
“hijacking airliners and crashing them into the Pentagon”
It wasn’t a plane that hit the Pentagon, Jim.
Hey! Is this dfwgator or Senator Patty Murray?!
What hit the Pentagon?
“The FBI didn’t fail at all. They let this happen.”
Bingo! I agree 100%! Its obvious if you look at the FBI’s MO. They don’t look for crime, they initiate crimes and recruit others carry it out. That’s why the “Steel Dossier” looks like classic FBI. They do it all the time.
What did Deep State know about 9/11 and when did it know it...
Pearl Harbor, Part Deux
The World Trade Center Bomb: Who is Ramzi Yousef? And Why It Matters
And who at the FBI was fired by GWBush?
We have a winner!
You mean one of N memorials to FBI failure, where N is a large number? I long for the days when I actually felt that my government consisted of honest, motivated individuals.
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