But can somebody explain hos this years-old specific info -- stuff like pedestrian traffic flows, vehicle traffic flows and escape routes would be relevant now when all of that has changed, some of it in response to 9/11? Seems as if it would be next to useless at this point.
Uh....turn on the TV and watch the news. It will be explained with pictures. Not all this information is old. That's a lie. It's old info combined with update, new info, because it was an ongoing cinspiracy to attack.
"Seems as if it would be next to useless at this point"
What do you mean by useless? The plan outlining the use of airplanes to divebomb US buildings was found on laptops seized in the Phillipines in 1995. The Clinton administration didn't follow it up. Therefore no new, relevant information was discovered until right before the attacks...and even THAT was unspecific.
If we don't step up security, whatever terrorists are here will carry out their attack...WITH extra security, they may not be able to pull it off. This isn't rocket science. Al Qaeda is patient. The Islamakazis still want to kill us.