[rocklobster11]

The key lines by Ben Veniste are:

And so it seems to me that if that information had percolated up, if there had been an all-hands meeting at the White House with the cabinet, if they would have shaken the trees to find anything that they knew in this extraordinary threat environment, where we were hearing that something spectacular was going to happen.

Perhaps if their photographs had been put on television, if airports had been alerted, if the security measures that we might have put in place had been put in place, perhaps we could have interrupted 9/11.

[CyberAnt]

And .. Ben-Venista says nothing about the Gore plans for airport security which Gore recinded because the airlines and airports gave him contributions to his campaign.