THE SO-CALLED "INTELLIGENCE FAILURE" OF 9/11

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THE SO-CALLED "INTELLIGENCE FAILURE" OF 9/11
Facts on Public Record Clearly Show FBI Had Three 9/11 Hijackers Under
Surveillance
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by John A. McCurdy
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/MCC309A.html

A transcript of McCurdy's panel presentation in Toronto at the Bloor Cinema
screening of Guerrilla News Network documentary, "Aftermath: Unanswered
Questions From 9/11."

I would like to focus on what 9/11 Skeptics call the official narrative, or
story, of what happened on September 11, 2001. In May 2002, a series of
government and media disclosures revealed that U.S. intelligence and
military communities had had a great deal of foreknowledge of the method of
attack, the targets, and at least some of the 9/11 hijackers. Nevertheless,
it was argued, there had been no decisive "smoking gun" evidence
pinpointing exact specifics about the attacks, which might otherwise have
rendered them preventable.

The range of dissenting official voices that spoke out against the handling
of Sept. 11 by the Bush administration, however, was noticeable. Internet
journalist and editor Russ Kick collected a number of these statements
together at his website, The Memory Hole, in July.

On June 1, 2002, Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff told the
press: "As of September 10th, each of us knew everything we needed to know
to tell us there was a possibility of what happened on September 11." Two
days later, Senator Richard Shelby said of 9/11: "They don't have any
excuse because the information was in their lap, and they didn't do
anything to prevent it." Three days after Shelby, on June 6th, Senator
Arlen Specter put the matter even more decisively: "I don't believe any
longer that it's a matter of connecting dots. I think they had a veritable
blueprint, and we want to know why they didn't act on it." <1>

The comments of these two Senators, moreover, cannot be dismissed as
politically partisan. Shelby, at the time, had been the ranking Republican
on the Senate Intelligence Committee, and member of the joint intelligence
committee investigating 9/11. Specter had also been a Republican member of
the joint intelligence committee investigating 9/11.

Building on the so-called "failure to connect the dots" official narrative,
and the disturbing comments of Chertoff, Shelby, and Specter, let's turn to
a small sampling of information available in the public domain pertinent to
"connecting the dots" of the 9/11 attacks. My three examples were published
by the corporate media - one by ABCNews.com, the other two by Newsweek. In
doing so, I want to challenge and disagree with two truisms of the
""intelligence failures": first, that the public has no right to think
about - let alone question - the intensely suspicious decisions made by the
CIA, supposedly with respect to "information hoarding" (the so-called
intelligence "turf wars"); and second, the claim that the FBI had not
collected full intelligence on 9/11 hijackers Nawaf Alhazmi, Khalid
Almihdhar, and Hani Hanjour.

(snip)
(edited for correct link)

the site has a lot of conspiracy stuff supporting the LIHOP hypothesis. I'm posting this because it references specific articles in the public domain from reputable news sources. any thoughts???

[Abe Linkman]

1. Thoughts

"the site has a lot of conspiracy stuff supporting the LIHOP hypothesis. I'm posting this because it references specific articles in the public domain from reputable news sources. any thoughts???"

1.) Use of the word "conspiracy" in the context of 9-11 is not helpful to anyone. Regardless of whether you believe the Official Story Version of what happened or not; there was definitely a conspiracy. By using the term in the manner you (and many others) have used it, it comes across as though "conspiracy" only applies to something OTHER than the Official Story Version.

2.) There is no such thing as LIHOP, with regard to 9-11. Certain ACTIONS had to have occurred on that day. Thus, by definition, it cannot have been a LIHOP situation. The perpetrators WERE helped by elements of our own government, which may or may not be 100% responsible for 9-11.

[RH]

2. At any given time

how many people would the FBI have "under surveillance"?

(intended as a serious question)