Ok, so after the fact, I sit down and look at thousands and thousands of pagers of information and say -
ye we shoulda seen that coming.
The charge of the WH knowing and not doing anything is ridiculous.
The people in the know pour over mountains of information and make decisions, unfortunately sometimes they are wrong.
Nevertheless, I’ll never forget Condoleeza Rice sitting up there at the commission saying “We never DREAMED someone would be low enough to hijack an airliner and fly it into a skyscraper.” I thought that sounded very, very weak.