Source: Boston Globe
I found the gist of the story hard to believe.
The FAA insists that it would have acted if it would have known about the Moussaoui hijacking plot.
Well, there was this secret data-mining program called "Able Danger" and the names of several 9/11 terrorists, including Moussaoui, were picked up in monitored traffic. "Able Danger" became "Operation: Extreme Redundancy" as a White House known for its failures would do everything in its power to shut it down.
Things like: erasing terabytes of data and using "states secrets" to not allow testimony into the public domain that would show obvious missteps that caused the lives of thousands.
WASHINGTON--If Zacarias Moussaoui had confessed that he was plotting with Al Qaeda to hijack an airplane, federal officials could have drastically boosted airport security in the days before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, an aviation security specialist testified yesterday in federal court.
Robert Cammaroto, a Transportation Security Administration official, told jurors at Moussaoui's death penalty trial at US District Court in Alexandria, Va., that the government has a long history of issuing urgent warnings to airlines when threats arise.
The knowledge that Moussaoui had trained at an Al Qaeda camp and was conspiring to take over a plane, he said, could have triggered intensified screening of passengers and luggage.
Asked whether the government could have scrambled to find the short-bladed knives used by the Sept. 11 hijackers, Cammaroto told prosecutors: "We most certainly could have. That would have been a simple procedure."
Please do us all a favor and quit blowing smoke up our asses. This attack on the World Trade Center Building was going to happen, regardless.
Several layers of political bureaucrats went on an all-out blitz to hinder this investigation and slow down the investigative work of agents who wanted to move out potential terrorists.
This was this generation's Pearl Harbor, and people in the know looked the other way while this attack was going down.
The 9/11 attacks gave the GOP unheard of policing and spying power and ushered in things like the Patriot Act that wouldn't normally get passed under normal conditions.
My question is that if they knew and let it happen once, would they do it again?
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