It's perfectly relevant. I was asking what you personally would do. Do you take the elevated threat level seriously?
Yes. Should I not take it seriously?
So far, neither you or SD has come up with anything the American public would have accepted as far as security measures.
Aren't you using a little hindsight to make this comment?
Here is a scenario for you:
A public address by the President in the months leading up to 9/11-
"Ladies and Gentlement it has come to my administration's attention through the excellent work of the Intelligence Community that OBL and Al-Q have been in preparation to commit a mass casualty terrorist attack on American soil using passenger airlines as instruments of destruction. My senior cabinet officials along with the FAA and the airline industry will be putting into place the following security measures to ensure the safety and security of air travel. . (insert measures here that have been recommended by the Joint Terrorism Task force prior to 9/11, security experts, FAA, and the airline industry). These measures may inconvenience you at worst but rest assured as your President I place the security and safety of the American people as my highest priority. While these measures are being instituted at airports and on airlines across the country, the FBI at home and the CIA abroad are working around the clock to bring these terrorists who mean us harm to justice. We will not falter and we will not fail nor will we be held captive by the fear that terrorists try to impose upon us."
The talking heads and pundits heap lavish praise upon the President for being a proactive President at work and not on an extended vacation. The odds are of course that 9/11 is prevented and the terrorists with box cutters are prevented from boarding the plane as they are arrested at the security checkpoints. If they do make it on the plane, air marshals are there to prevent any deaths, reinforced cockpit doors have already been installed, and
armed pilots await any terrorists that make it past the first three measures. Or perhaps the terrorists are apprehended by the FBI as Sibel Edmonds and her cohorts are not stymied or hampered by their superiors.
But instead we get a President that takes an extended vacation while him and his administration ignore numerous warnings, FBI superiors that hamper field agents in their investigation, and 9/11.
Notice, I said CIA, not FBI. Are you referring to the FBI's operations or are you trying to paint me as being dishonest?
Does the FBI carry out operation overseas?
Are you saying nothing was done to counter AQ to try and prevent attacks in anyway that summer?
Can you answer a question without a question?