[Eastbound]

What I'd like to see is documentation showing that any government agency or agent or the president or his cabinet knew in advance of the date, target(s) and method.

From all of the info I've seen on the WTC, the threats were general and not specific. If only two of the factors were known, it still could not have been prevented.

I'd like to know if all three factors were known in advance.

[Maximum Leader]

I disagree, I think the dates and targets are irrelevant if you know what the method is.

We know from the 1995 Bojinka case that the Filipino national police cracked (thanks to some old school torture of suspects) about the use of airplanes as flying bombs. The Filipino's notified both the FBI and the CIA. Someone should have wargamed this method-- use of aircraft as flying bombs-- and then offered countermeasures.

If we had secured cockpit doors, required all luggage and passengers to be walked past a bomb sniffing dog, forbidden ridealongs in the cockpit jump seat and armed pilots on 9/10, there would have been no 9/11.

[takenoprisoner]

It occurs to me based on what we have now learned that the players and their method may have been known in advance. Date and time? I don't know if they knew the date and time. But I do know that there have been folks in America convicted for conspiracy to commmit murder without ever having committed a murder. You know that right? Oh but this was an international issue beyond our courts. Okay fine, do not allow these bastards into our country. International problem solved.