NBC just now: "After 9/11, when the government failed to connect the dots..."

[IDemo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleen_Rowley

After the September 11, 2001, attacks, Rowley wrote a paper for FBI Director Robert Mueller documenting how FBI HQ personnel in Washington, D.C., had mishandled and failed to take action on information provided by the Minneapolis, Minnesota Field Office regarding its investigation of suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui. Moussaoui had been suspected of being involved in preparations for a suicide-hijacking similar to the December 1994 "Eiffel Tower" hijacking of Air France 8969. Failures identified by Rowley may have left the U.S. vulnerable to the September 11, 2001, attacks.

[still_one]

1. Sorry, they knew, and did not head the warnings

[WestStar]

2. Who knew, and who did not head the warnings?

And when did they know it?

[rhett o rick]

3. This admin says to look the other way. Put war crimes behind us. nm

[still_one]

5. The August presidential daily briefing

[IDemo]

6. See Rowley's letter to FBI Director Mueller

http://www.wanttoknow.info/911/9-11_summary_articles/020521coleenrowleymemofbidirectormueller

Read the sections in bold print, if nothing else.

[Enthusiast]

7. You are precisely correct.

They allowed it to happen and, IMHO, might have even fostered it along the way.

[octoberlib]

4. They should have concentrated more on the turf wars between the CIA & FBI

All that said, I welcome the uproar. It is a sign that we are moving, belatedly, beyond a permanent-war mindset that for a while now has been neither justified by global reality nor healthy for the country. Over and over, even as the troop drawdowns began in Iraq and then Afghanistan, we were told we were a nation at war. It was a stance that justified rampant remote killing from the skies above Waziristan and Yemen and, at home, the sprawl of a huge and lucrative new security-industrial complex in which 850,000 Americans hold top-secret security clearances.
Few dared call the latter what it was: a massive overcompensation for the utter failures that preceded the September 11, 2001, attacks. All we would have needed back then was for the FBI to take those flight-school warnings more seriously, or for the CIA to not hide from the FBI its knowledge of the crucial Malaysia meeting of those who were behind the USS Cole bombing and of the presence in San Diego of two of the eventual 9/11 hijackers. (FBI agent Ali Soufan’s discovery of that fateful withholding, hours after the towers collapsed, and his subsequent agonized wretching in a bathroom in Yemen, is for me the defining image of our pre-9/11 failure.) Yet rather than simply address the obvious flaws in our turf-obsessed apparatus, we went about building a leviathan far beyond even what we had deployed against the nuclear-equipped Soviet Union, all to fend off the next Mohamed Atta. We were like the boy bouncing up from a schoolyard blow: “9/11 didn’t count. Betcha can’t hit us again.”

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113413/nsa-spying-scandal-could-cleanse-america-post-911-mindset#