[cwb]

"The widows want to know why various government agencies didn't connect the dots before Sept. 11, such as warnings from FBI offices in Minnesota and Arizona about suspicious student pilots."

Mainly, because these "various government agencies" were prohibited from sharing informaton with each other prior to 9/11. I getta kick out these libs who bitch about the shortcomings in the system, when it is their paranoia and hostility that has created many of these obstructions, in the first place. These same people who moan about the intelligence failures are the same people who supported the decimation of these intelligence agencies from the Church Commission to the Torecelli Amendment.
Even now, as we make changes to the system to elliviate some of these errors, we still have the usual suspects up in arms, objecting to those changes.

[chiller]

Thank you for making your point. Yes, the attack could have been prevented if dots had been connected, if agencies could talk to each other. I'm not sure Kean is specifically blaming the new admin. Plenty of blame, plenty of bad decisions to go around. In that sense, 9-1-1 did not have to happen.

But don't blame a guy who just stepped into office to clean up years of malfeasance from everyone that preceded him. Bush will fix it if you let him.

[Argus]

Terrorist using hijacked planes as flying bombs targeting DC featured in a Tom Clancy novel and the movie EXECUTIVE DECISION, both well before 9/11. The tactic was so obvious it was a plot point in at least two thrillers. The reason Clinton never paid any attention to the danger was that Dick Morris' polls indicated the public didn't care. The reason Bush didn't was that he was hamstrung by a Democrat-controlled legislature and media that wouldn't even allow him to confirm his cabinet nominees.