..."What, in particular, was "sloppy?"...
I thought this film was powerful and disturbing..The central message I got from watching it is not comforting to me but is something I have known for many years..It is that the bureaucracies of American government and the anti-American nature of liberals is paralyzing us. The scene in the movie where the bomb experts experienced angst about removing a piece of medal with a crucial registration number on it from the site where a van blew up the trade center in 1993 because the FBI or CIA had a rule that no evidence could be removed was very revealing concerning the insanity which paralyzes us. Never mind that in minutes that evidence would be lost as a crane, I think, was coming through to disturb that location. That piece of evidence turned out to be extremely important. The professional investigators made the tough decision to remove it anyway and it was key in making a later arrest.
It is comforting that sometimes people will run the risk of using common sense.
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I too felt disturbed especially by that scene in the 1993 WTC bombing where the recovered VIN number was nearly lost because of 'rules'.
That VIN number led to the terrorist cell financed by OBL and to the knowledge that he financed it. Without that VIN number it is likely that OBL would only be a suspect today rather than a known mastermind in the WTC bombing.
Equally disturbing scene to me was the haughty arrogance and petulance of 'Barbara Bodine', Yemen Ambassador. I may be wrong but I would wager she was another of Hillary Clinton's 'Strong Women' (=feminist) that we also saw in Albright and Reno.
What many people do not realize is that these so-call 'strong women' had numerous subordinates and followers that permeated government, academia and corporate America. This psychopathic movement of such women seemed to have as its sole purpose to belittle men and to remove their authority using any pretext. I actually witnessed newsletters for 'women in business' that encouraged women to 'confront men' daily, no reason or provocation necessary, in order to gain stature. As I witnessed more and more unreasonable and unaccountable episodes involving 'strong women' confronting (meaning challenging) men for no reason other than to 'show force', it crossed my mind that this was all traceable to Hillary Clinton.
Barbara Bodine was just another example. She was portrayed to rip into John O'Neill with zeal for no reason at all. And I believe that account. Notice the last paragraphs in the following:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Bodine
The USA under Presidents Bill and Hillary Clinton was insane.
I came away thinking the blame lay mainly with Billy Jeff and just a little bit with W - but not really with them personally. The bureaucratic bungling was staggering, the political correctness was appalling, and the turf wars are absolutely ridiculous!
I think we're going to get hit again, badly, which is probably the only thing that will wake most Americans up. And if we don't have the will to do what it takes to save this great country, then maybe we DON'T deserve it after all...