[VOA]

...she didn't even let ANYBODY know about this attempt by a non-citizen to get loan
money from the US govt. to finance the purchase of an airplane with a huge "chemical tank"?

I think the answer is below...she's a typical government employee.

Atta also talked about life in his country. "He mentioned al Qaeda, he mentioned
Osama bin Laden," said Bryant. "I didn't know who Osama bin Laden was …
He could have been a character on Star Wars for all I knew."

I'm pretty sure that Osama was mentioned in the news more than a few times before
9-11; what we have here is a regular governmental functionary.
Fortunately the system accidentally worked and he didn't get his loan to
build his anthrax delivery system...oops, I forgot, all that anthrax stuff is the
product of domestic right-wing nuts.

[Sender]

...she's a typical government employee

OK, Mr Atta, you're going to have to fill out federal form Q1099-A-050, equipping a medium-size aircraft with a bomb, and form Q1101-C-017, permit for destruction of building over 50 stories. Oh, and I'll need your credit references and a five dollar application fee. You can just stop with the staring and the throat-slashing, sir, I'm a government employee. You can wait the six months for processing like everybody else. Sign here. Who is Allen Queda? Oh, I see.