Part of the problem is Lance's connections to Huffin' Puff Post, maybe?
"Federal authorities have been aware for years that suspected terrorists with ties to Osama bin Laden were receiving flight training at schools in the United States and abroad, according to interviews and court testimony. "
The feds said it just did not occur to them to make a connection.
Yet, four flight schools provided training for "Abdul Hakim Murad in the early 1990s, according to Philippine authorities. Murad was arrested in Manila in 1995 and later convicted in New York of plotting to blow up a dozen U.S. airliners over the Pacific, then crash a suicide plane into CIA headquarters."
Now today that same Abdul Hakim Murad has been moved from the super maximum federal prison to a jail cell in Lower Manhattan next to Gregory Scarpa Jr. who helped the authorities get even more information about Al Qaeda.
That according to Peter Lance who's written a couple or three books on the tragic debacles of the 1990s and 2001. Mr. Lance names names and offers proof that much of our dead can be blamed upon federal employees fouling up and covering their butts.
He's connected lots of dots and the biggest dot is Patrick Fitzgerald.
Mr. Scarpa is an ex-Mafia member who is scheduled to be the star witness in the upcoming murder trial of former FBI Supervisory Special Agent R. Lindley DeVecchio. Mr. DeVecchio and fellow government employees are also dots neatly connected up by Mr. Lance.
Lots are at stake and there's the possibly of yet more deaths as the dots struggle to get free and Al Qaeda looks for revenge. According to Mr. Lance Mr. Scarpa's family has been getting threatening letters and of course Mr. Scarpa himself is in danger.