[doug from upland]

Actually it could have been prevented. All we needed was the date and flight numbers gathered from our human intelligence. Oh, that's right, because of the RAT bastards, we were woefully deficient in human intelligence. Never mind.

[umgud]

I don't have a problem with anything Clarke is saying. My problem is that the mainstream media promotes his words as gospel and uses them in the media inspired inquisition of Bush. I also am pi$$ed the media promotes his book that would have went nowhere without their help.

Actually, I'm downright angry.

[Steve_Seattle]

It possibly could have been prevented, but that has nothing to do with all this stuff about budgets and alleged mental attitudes by the White House. The investigation of terror is the responsibility of the FBI and the CIA; more than a year ago, we learned that they dropped the ball on a couple of leads - THAT is where the failure was, but now it's all become politics.