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

[HighRiser]

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

If it makes you feel better, Clayton, count me amongst the idiots who don't get the joke.

 

[Clayton Moore]

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?

Wasn't Saddam initially a suspect? Even before Cheney?

 

[twinstead]

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.

Wait, you didn't know that 9-11 was the first time anybody had ever heard of this new upstart organization called Al-Qaeda?

 

[The Big Dog]

Wasn't Saddam initially a suspect? Even before Cheney?

That another example of your Pee Wee Herman style humor?

"I meant to do that."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hNIX7V21pU

Hee hee!

 

[twinstead]

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

Ah, just another example of your superior intelligence. Well played

 

[notheist]

I always wonder what would have happened if Clinton did kill OBL in 1998.

9/11 may have happened. But there are lots of thing that could have stopped the attack. If the CIA had better relations with the FBI and connected the flight training the FBI knew was happening with the names of people the CIA suspected of being terrorist, all it would take is one astute investigator to change history. But hindsight is 20/20.

 

[George 152]

Ah, just another example of your superior intelligence. Well played

It's evident that he cant spell idiot

 

[notheist]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/

FBI agent John O'Neill knew more than anybody about Al Qieda. He ironically died on 9/11 in in the second tower.

 

[twinstead]

Sounds like this entire thread is one big pile of steaming hindsight is 20/20

 

[plague311]

In all honesty, I believe 9/11 would have still happened whether the US killed OBL or not. He wasn't the mastermind behind, as some commonly believe, and if he would have been killed they would have "upped the ante." I believe the initial target for the crashes were nuclear power generators, that's IIRC. That idea was shunned due to it being a little over the top. I think had OBL been killed they would have stucked with the original plan and gone after higher profile targets to cause more damage.

 

[notheist]

Why didn't consult Silvia Browne?

 

[dudalb]

How could they have allowed the final Challenger mission to proceed?
How could they have proceeded with the rework on the I-35E Mississipi River bridge?
How could they have not put enough lifeboats on the Titanic?

How Could they have not known about Pearl Harbor is an even better comparasion.

 

[Sam.I.Am]

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

True, however the OP's claim is that it's suspicious for the US intelligence agencies to have a suspect (Bin Laden and AQ in general) within hours. I was just pointing out that at the time the prime suspect was glaringly obvious to anyone who had paid just a little bit of attention to the news prior to the attacks. Bin Laden was already known for his spectacular and well timed multiple attacks. It was his M.O. Add in that he had "Declared war" on the US well over a year prior and it's not a stretch at all to have him as suspect #1 right off of the bat.

 

[BCR]

They didn't miss anything.

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

OMG! The CIA/FBI knew about the Russian meteor beforehand

I thought the NWO was behind that.

 

[LSSBB]

How Could they have not known about Pearl Harbor is an even better comparasion.

I didn't want to bring other wacky Conspiracy Theories in to it, although in retrospect the examples I mentioned probably have them too.

 

[tsig]

True, however the OP's claim is that it's suspicious for the US intelligence agencies to have a suspect (Bin Laden and AQ in general) within hours. I was just pointing out that at the time the prime suspect was glaringly obvious to anyone who had paid just a little bit of attention to the news prior to the attacks. Bin Laden was already known for his spectacular and well timed multiple attacks. It was his M.O. Add in that he had "Declared war" on the US well over a year prior and it's not a stretch at all to have him as suspect #1 right off of the bat.

Of course, if they didn't have a suspect immediately then that would be suspicious. "How could the best spies on Earth not know who did this"?

 

[Clayton Moore]

Of course, if they didn't have a suspect immediately then that would be suspicious. "How could the best spies on Earth not know who did this"?

How could the best spies on Earth not know 9/11 was in the works when much of the world's intelligence community knew and was notifying the US of it?

 

[Ape of Good Hope]

How could the best spies on Earth not know 9/11 was in the works when much of the world's intelligence community knew and was notifying the US of it?

We're hoping you can tell us Clayton.

It should be easy for you:

I say what I say because I'm smarter than 99.78 of the people on this planet.
And just as smart as the rest.

 

[Travis]

In all honesty, I believe 9/11 would have still happened whether the US killed OBL or not. He wasn't the mastermind behind, as some commonly believe, and if he would have been killed they would have "upped the ante." I believe the initial target for the crashes were nuclear power generators, that's IIRC. That idea was shunned due to it being a little over the top. I think had OBL been killed they would have stucked with the original plan and gone after higher profile targets to cause more damage.

That would have been preferable to what they did do. A 757 vs a nuclear containment structure results in a pulverized plane, with all aboard dead, a few very startled nuclear plant workers and not much else.

 

[Baah]

At the end of December 1999, the CIA, FBI and State Department discovered from communications it intercepted on the phone line of the Yemeni safe house, that there would be an important al-Qaeda meeting in Malaysia in January and that Almihdhar and an associate named Nawaf would attend. [Newsweek, 6/2/02, Congressional Intelligence Committee, 9/20/02, Congressional Intelligence Committee, 10/17/02]