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"The fact of the matter is when I made that statement, I wasn't aware of the Arizona E.C.," Mr. Mueller said Wednesday, using the initials for electronic communication.
And yet...

Scarborough, Rowan. "Intercepts Foretold of 'Big Attack.'" Washington Times, 22 Sep. 2001.
According to a senior administration official, "[t]he day before terrorists struck the United States, its intelligence agencies detected discussions between Osama bin Laden's lieutenants of an impending 'big attack,' ... The official said ... that the detection was not discovered until days after the Sept. 11 assault on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The time lapse is typical of intelligence analyses, in which computers sift through loads of that day's collection to find valuable material."
Seems like there was little human involvement. The computers seem to be doing all of the work. Keywords and such perhaps? But wait, they lack computers...

Warrick, Joby, Joe Stephens, Mary Pat Flaherty, and James V. Grimaldi. "FBI Agents Ill-Equipped to Predict Terror Acts." Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2001, A1.
"The attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center found the nation's chief domestic law enforcement agency ill-equipped and unprepared. An agency that must track terrorists who rely heavily on technology lacks computers that can quickly access the Internet. Boxes of evidence have piled up in previous terrorist plots, but the FBI has not had translators to decipher them. It lacks Arab agents who can penetrate terrorist cells and has too few veterans who see connections among foreign suspects and far-flung sites."
Oh...I see.

Oh, we dare not say he lied, we'll just say he made "misstatements".

I stand by all the misstatements. Dan Quayle
I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue. Richard Nixon

Déjà vu!

I think the FBI is getting a lot of complaints from people wondering about some strange things going on with their computers, as we have read on various threads.
Nothing wrong with the computers. They seem to be doing their job. (see above)
The programmers, well, that might be a different story.
The leadership, well, they just make "misstatements".

I wonder how many more "misstatements" will come back to haunt us them.

Oh, we dare not say he lied, we'll just say he made "misstatements". How long was this dolt a regular fbi thug before he became head thug? Do you know? He was probably part of the problem from the beginning, but just like the head thug at atf, incompetence reaps the reward. Blackbird.

Thanks for the INFORMATION.