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9/11: A MEMORIAL TO FBI FAILURE
Powerline ^ | 11 Sep 2023 | Lloyd Billingsley

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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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: 911; fbi; fbiakastasi; wtc
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Why limit it to just the FBI? It was a massive intelligence failure across the board, much of it a holdover of polices that Billy Jeff's DoJ instituted. Jamie Gorelick? She should be hung! Instead she was appointed to the 9/11 Commission! Norman Mineta?! Functional idiot as Secretary of Transportation whom Bush unaccountably kept on. I could go on and on....
1 posted on 09/11/2023 1:27:04 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

The FBI didn’t fail at all. They let this happen.


2 posted on 09/11/2023 1:30:40 PM PDT by caver
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To: Rummyfan

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”.


3 posted on 09/11/2023 1:31:39 PM PDT by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
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No word about any FBI bosses losing their jobs over the failure

Accountability in a government agency, lol, good one.

4 posted on 09/11/2023 1:32:02 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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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.

Kinda like most all of these "mass shooters" are known to the FBI before the crime. Ignored.

5 posted on 09/11/2023 1:33:54 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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And...

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.

6 posted on 09/11/2023 1:34:02 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man)
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That’s the thing about massive intelligence/security failures. The punishment is always dramatically increased budgets for all the alphabet agencies.

Freegards


7 posted on 09/11/2023 1:38:49 PM PDT by Ransomed
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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.


8 posted on 09/11/2023 1:38:54 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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But.....but.....OBL built hospitals!


9 posted on 09/11/2023 1:41:41 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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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.

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.....

10 posted on 09/11/2023 1:43:11 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man)
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“hijacking airliners and crashing them into the Pentagon”

It wasn’t a plane that hit the Pentagon, Jim.


11 posted on 09/11/2023 1:44:03 PM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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But.....but.....OBL built hospitals!

Hey! Is this dfwgator or Senator Patty Murray?!

12 posted on 09/11/2023 1:44:14 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man)
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To: Macoozie

What hit the Pentagon?


13 posted on 09/11/2023 1:49:33 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: caver

“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.


14 posted on 09/11/2023 1:55:07 PM PDT by fightin kentuckian
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What did Deep State know about 9/11 and when did it know it...


15 posted on 09/11/2023 1:56:43 PM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Rummyfan

Pearl Harbor, Part Deux


16 posted on 09/11/2023 1:57:46 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: Rummyfan
Found this article my Laurie Mylroie back in 1995, and have kept it in my profile links to share from time to time. It's in reference to the FBI failures after the February 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

The World Trade Center Bomb: Who is Ramzi Yousef? And Why It Matters

17 posted on 09/11/2023 2:04:53 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Rummyfan

And who at the FBI was fired by GWBush?


18 posted on 09/11/2023 2:31:36 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: caver

We have a winner!


19 posted on 09/11/2023 2:38:28 PM PDT by Rowdyone (Vigilence)
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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.


20 posted on 09/11/2023 2:55:20 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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