How could CIA/NSA/FBI miss the 9/11 attack?

[LSSBB]

Unless you know what you are looking for is not really there.

MM

Thanks for the last statement, MM, it just about sums up the whole Truther movement - and not in the way you intend ot to mean.

 

[Quad4_72]

Obviously these guys had US visas in their real names even though they were tracked for terror activities. CIA knew that, but nothing was done.

So all of these other thoughtful posts on here explaining the answer to your question, and you respond with an unsourced claim that really doesn't have much to do with anything. Perhaps your mind is already made up, and even in the face of overwhelming evidence contrary to your position, your mind will not be changed?

 

[Myron Proudfoot]

different agencies had different pieces, and they didn't share well. A series of small missteps added up to one huge intelligence failure.

IMHO adding yet another layer of bureaucracy (the DNI) didn't do anything to help stop the same thing from happening again in the future.

 

[Clayton Moore]

How could they have missed India getting the nuke?
How could they have missed the collapse of the Soviet Union?
How could they have missed the meteor that exploded over Russia a few weeks ago?

**** happens.

They didn't miss anything.

If somebody exposes a card do you tell them during the hand?

 

[Clayton Moore]

Very few people were not mouthing "OBL did it" shortly after WTC2 was hit.

How could so many draw such a quick conclusion and not be part of the intelligence community?

Years of U.S. propaganda declaring whom we should fear re: Al Qaeda and its purported leader is why.

Years that the CIA had to profile, track, infiltrate and monitor.

It doesn't get much easier.

Unless you know what you are looking for is not really there.

MM

How did we become so much more intelligent than the work and file?

 

[Ape of Good Hope]

How did we become so much more intelligent than the work and file?

Do you mean rank and file?

 

[twinstead]

How did we become so much more intelligent than the work and file?

I assume you mean rank and file, and this misplaced arrogance in the face of being totally wrong is what makes you truthers truly special and entertaining

 

[timhau]

Nobody else has commented on this so... Morning radio "Shock Jock" Howard fricking Stern was saying that it was Bin Laden about five minutes after the second plane hit. Howard Stern could figure it out in minutes. Not to impugn Mr Sterns intelligence or anything but if a guy whose job is rude and crass jokes interspersed with guests talking about their various naughty bits can somehow put it all together from what was public knowledge what makes you think that it's surprising when the intelligence agencies can do it too?

To be fair, that isn't really a good comparison. Mr. Stern can just guess; he pays no price for being wrong.

 

[FFed]

It's not like these guys needed some enormous network of people to pull this off, once they were in Canada it was pretty much a cakewalk and they only had to follow their instructions and not lose their nerve.

The hijackers entered the US through US airports, not Canada.

 

[Sunstealer]

How did we become so much more intelligent than the work and file?

Do you mean rank and file?

I assume you mean rank and file, and this misplaced arrogance in the face of being totally wrong is what makes you truthers truly special and entertaining

Love it - what a classic. Is it stundiable though?

 

[DrDave]

Mostly the above, with the exception of the date lacking significance - I think 9/11 does have a great impact as a date, even in the UK most people know that it is the emergency number in the US.

True, but now we think it all happened on the 9th of November

 

[DavidJames]

How did we become so much more intelligent than the work and file?

Dunning-Kruger can tell you. Read it closely while looking in the mirror.

 

[dafydd]

How did we become so much more intelligent than the work and file?

Rank and file. I didn't know that the smartest people in the world called it work and file.

 

[StankApe]

The hijackers entered the US through US airports, not Canada.

Yes you are correct, and shame on me for perpetuating an old myth.

I should be punished........

 

[JoeMorgue]

Very few people were not mouthing "OBL did it" shortly after WTC2 was hit.

Right and the only explanation for that is a Twoofer conspiracy, not the fact that he was the most well know terrorist in the world, had openly threated the US, and had already carried out several successful terrorist attacks against US interest or anything crazy like that.

 

[Sabretooth]

IIRC, the only thing that the CIA "knew" (based on that August 2001 security report) was that there was the possibility of terrorists coming in to the USA with the intention of getting flight instruction to pull off what was 9/11. What they didn't know was that the terrorists were already here, mostly trained, and the final plan was already well under way.

I may be a little off on the facts...haven't looked at the text of that report in a long time.

 

[WhenDanSaysJump]

How could so many draw such a quick conclusion and not be part of the intelligence community?

I spent a great deal of time in TX in the year 2000. OBL was prominently displayed on the wall of my nearest post office as #1 Most Wanted. It's not like he was a mysterious or obscure character.

 

[Clayton Moore]

Rank and file. I didn't know that the smartest people in the world called it work and file.

They might if they perceive the humor of changing an idiom as I did.

 

[The Big Dog]

Very few people were not mouthing "OBL did it" shortly after WTC2 was hit.

How could so many draw such a quick conclusion and not be part of the intelligence community?

Years of U.S. propaganda declaring whom we should fear re: Al Qaeda and its purported leader is why.

Years that the CIA had to profile, track, infiltrate and monitor.

It doesn't get much easier.

Unless you know what you are looking for is not really there.

MM

That post demonstrates the most profound lack of understanding of history I have ever seen.

It is almost as if you don't understand that the 1993 Bombing of the Towers, the African Embassy Bombings and the attack on the USS COLE actually took place.

Or are you a truther on those events too?

 

[notheist]

Richard Clarke knew it was Al qieda and OBL. And he was trying to get Bush to take the warning seriously. But Bush saw it as a Clinton obsession. Remember Clinton did try to kill OBL. Knowing OBL is planing something is far from predicting it would happen on a particular date. We could have banned any Arab looking people from flying around tha time, but imagine the cries of oppression. We could have killed anyone with ties to any terrorist group. But we did not have the drones we have now.