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Originally Posted by Startup
My two favorite parts had to be:
(1) RICE: I remember very well that the president was aware that there were issues inside the United States. He talked to people about this. But I don't remember the al Qaeda cells as being something that we were told we needed to do something about.
And even better...
(2) BEN-VENISTE: Isn't it a fact, Dr. Rice, that the August 6 PDB warned against possible attacks in this country? And I ask you whether you recall the title of that PDB?
RICE: I believe the title was, "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States."
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That´s what i don´t understand! If they knew there were Al-Qaeda cells in the US, why weren´t they under surveillence? All it took to prevent 9/11 was a simple arrest, or a timely search warrant. If they kept the pilots under control, there wouldn´t have been a highjacking, and thus no 9/11!
I mean, were these guys allowed to roam free through the US, with no surveillence at all? And what about Moussaoui? Was he a lucky break, just like the millenium plot?
Honestly, i think they were left alone intentionally. Anyone with two brain cells would have ordered a tail on those guys, a background check, their whereabouts and latest actions taken. If you have a few guys with links to a terror group, with no previous interest in aviation, and suddenly deciding to take flying lessons for comercial jets, wouldn´t you think there was something fishy about it?
And another thing: forgive my ignorance on this, but i was under the impression the NSA was the intel agency in charge of homeland security! The very name is pointing to it. National Security Agency, meaning it should handle all the security issues within the US borders, hence the name "national", right?. What happened to it?
Why create another agency from scratch, if they already had one in place with huge assets and investigative power? I don´t get it...
Maybe NSA doesn´t exist anymore, or maybe it was used only to spy on americans or some other shit, but by definition it should be the NSA who controls terrorism at home, shouldn´t it?
The CIA controls all the abroad stuff, the FBI is more of a federal law and order agency (a better equipped type of police), while the DOD and the NSA take care of national security issues, right? So what´s the Homeland office for?
And what´s Cheney´s Bureau of Special Projects for?
With so many agencies running around and such a blurred line separating each agency´s jurisdiction, it´s obvious something was bound to get fucked up along the line.