Tom Clancy wrote a book in which a 747 is crashed into the White House. The book pre-dated 9-11 by several years. I believe its title was Debt of Honor.

A novelist could come up with the idea, but the folks concerned with national security couldn’t? What do we pay them for?

I suspect this as well.

“no one could of predicted…” = we’re as dumb as everybody else. Not exactly what any one is looking for in leadership.

SOURCE:
Clues Pointed to Changing Terrorist Tactics; Foiled Plots, FBI Data Showed Al Qaeda Groups Might Use Airplanes as Missiles
Steve Fainaru. The Washington Post. Washington, D.C.: May 19, 2002. pg. A.09

That’s not nice. He shouldn’t call Richard Clarke a “nobody”.

1) Aug. 6th, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing–”Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”

Bush, the decider-in-chief, decides to stay on vacation for another three weeks. Bush, the decider-in-chief, decides to let Condi Rice and the rest of his neo-con Republican national security team handle things, even though Condi Rice has not yet held a single cabinet-level counter-terrorism principals’ meeting, to coordinate information between our intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Under President Bill Clinton, counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke held three such meetings a week. He was demoted and denied access to cabinet-level neo-con Republican meetings after Bush/Cheney/Rice entered the White House, even though he’d served previously under both Republican and Democratic presidents.

2) Mid-August: one of the scheduled hijacked-plane pilots is arrested at a Midwest flight school after raising the suspicions of flight instructors because he didn’t want to learn how to take off or land 747s, but only how to fly them while they’re airborne. The FBI has him in custody. The FBI field agents petition FBI headquarters, and John Ashcroft, over and over again in the weeks leading up to 9/11 for authorization to search this guy’s personal effects. Over seventy requests are made, all are denied…even though under FISA law at that time, the search could have been done without a warrant, with the only requirement being that the FBI had to justify their warrantless search before the FISA court within 48 hours. Wasn’t done. Wasn’t even attempted. The Midwest FBI field agents became so desperate they sought to have this foreign national extradited to England, where his personal effects could be searched while going through customs. This was to happen on 9/11. Too late.

But you see, John Ashcroft’s Justice Department was too busy cracking down on prostitutes, pornographers and druggies to waste valuable time investigating suspected terrorists and protecting U.S. citizens from any imminent right-wing religious fundamentalist terrorist attack. In fact, after John Ashcroft became Attorney General in early 2001, he downgraded the terrorist threat priority level at the Justice Department far below where Clinton’s administration had placed the terrorist threat priority level (at the top).

3) One week before the 9/11 attacks, Condi Rice holds her one and only cabinet-level counter-terrorism principals’ meeting at which was discussed, she later admitted, the Bush administration’s overall Middle East strategy…not al Qaeda…not the guy under arrest in the Midwest…not the Aug. 6th PDB. In other words, Condi and her “crack” neo-con Republican pals discussed taking out Saddam Hussein, which was the heart of their Middle East strategy.

It is quite obvious that the Bush/Cheney administration had other priorities during 2001, after they stole into the White House and before the 9/11 attacks, and protecting U.S. citizens from right-wing religious fundamentalist terrorists was not one of the top priorities, or even middle priorities, in the Bush/Cheney administration.

No matter how much smoke nor how many mirrors are employed by Bush administration officials, past and present, they will never escape their sole responsibility for the 9/11 hijackers succeeding in killing close to 3,000 U.S. citizens on 9/11.

ARREST, TRY AND HANG Bush et al.

Well, maybe a few people.

OK, a number of people.

None of which were in the Bush administration.

Or the Republican party.

So… NO ONE!

-AF
Andrew Sullivan Is A Fraud

I had the DOS version around 18 years ago and flew my sim-Cessna square into one of the World Trade towers while unsuccessfully trying to fly between them.

Only took about 45 minutes in real time to reach them from the nearest sim-airport.

In other words, the technology to “pretend” to pull this off has existed in the mainstream for almost 2 decades.

Priceless.

The evidence was there if somebody wanted to see it.

WASHINGTON — In what the government describes as a bizarre coincidence, one U.S. intelligence agency was planning an exercise last Sept. 11 in which an errant aircraft would crash into one of its buildings. But the cause wasn’t terrorism — it was to be a simulated accident.

The National Reconnaissance Office operates many of the nation’s spy satellites. It draws its personnel from the military and the CIA.

LINK

The NRO was the PERFECT player to help pull the cover over the rest of the Defense Dept. and hide evidence.