On Feb 2, 9:51*pm, Ian B MacLure wrote:
150flivver wrote in news:359a3711-b5ea-4741-
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On Feb 2, 3:08*am, hcobb wrote:
On Feb 2, 6:45 am, 150flivver wrote:

Exactly how was the Air Force supposed to prevent 9/11? *I guess the
Air Force wasn't prepared to prevent the banking crisis or global
warming either.

Which service is it that's supposed to at least intercept hostile
aircraft in American skies?

Perhaps this also should be handed over to the USMC?

-HJC

9/11 was a criminal act conducted by foreign criminals. *Calling it

* * * * It was an act of war by a non-state actor. We quite properly
* * * * took it at face value and opened hostilities on the actors
* * * * and their supporters.

war doesn't make it so. *Law enforcement is something I don't want the
military involved in. *The FBI and CIA dropped the ball on this one,
not the Air Force. *Shooting down airliners filled with hostages/
citizens is something the Soviet Union would do, not what the USA does.

* * * * The FBI and CIA had been knecapped by Jamie Gorelick at Klintoon's
* * * * behest. It was more than your career was worth to ask inconvenient
* * * * questions or, god forbid, share information. Many of the necessary
* * * * dots were already plotted. They just could not legally be connected
* * * * and it took an enormous effort against determined Dhimmicrap
* * * * opposition to change that situation.

* * * * IBM

IIRC Clinton left office in January 2001, the FBI and CIA continued
their feud that says "I won't tell you anything you can use", and FBI
telephone taps that should have been tied to that "Osama bin Ladin
wants to do harm to the US" line in the PDB. As near as I can tell
that division still exists, perhaps expanded by the NSA being able to
say "I know something you don't". We now have an extra level of DNI to
add to the various inter service and interagency versions of that same
attitude. I would bet that more useful intelligence gets stuffed into
burn bags than gets into the PDB.