High-Ranking Officials Admit 9/11 Could've Been Prevented

[RedSock]

From Russ Kick at:
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/911-preventable.htm

"They don't have any excuse because the information was in their lap, and they didn't do anything to prevent it."
—Senator Richard Shelby, then ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee; member of the joint intelligence committee that investigated 9/11.

"I don't believe any longer that it's a matter of connecting the dots. I think they had a veritable blueprint, and we want to know why they didn't act on it."
—Senator Arlen Specter, a Republican member of the joint intelligence committee that investigated 9/11

"There were lots of warnings."
-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

"Should we have known? Yes, we should have. Could we have known? Yes, I believe we could have because of the hard targets ."
—Representative Porter Goss, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; Republican co-chairman of the joint intelligence committee that investigated 9/11

"I cannot say for sure that there wasn't a possibility we could have come across some lead that would have led us to the hijackers."
— FBI Director Robert Mueller

"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 11th."
—Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff (described by the Associated Press as "the Bush administration's top anti-terrorism prosecutor")

"Had one human being or a common group of human beings sat down with all that information, we could have gotten to the hijackers before they flew those four airplanes either into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon or the ground of Pennsylvania."
—Senator Bob Graham, then Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; Democratic co-chairman of the joint intelligence panel that investigated 9/11

"If you put all those pieces together, I don't say you could have prevented September 11th, but there might have been some warning, had it been handled properly."
—Vice President Dick Cheney


(lots more including sources for all quotes at link)

[Punkingal]

1. Okay, now let's go one step further.......

Mr. Cheney, did you LET IT HAPPEN ON PURPOSE?

[Cha]

2. I know this! So much for the repugnasts argument on National

Defense!

they dropped the our Security ball Big Time!

And all the liars on tv can't change that.

[whoYaCallinAlib]

3. Clearly, repukes can't be trusted to protect us.

Hopefully, this will resonate with the electorate.

[rogerashton]

4. There is a reason the Republican Administration did not know.

It is because they announced that they did not want to know. Dick Cheyney, in early 2001, came to the official conclusion that the threat of terrorist attack on the US was not imminent. It is, of course, clear in retrospect that Cheyney was wrong, but it now appears that his wrong assessment was a major positive cause of the attacks of 9-11. I do not say it was deliberate as I do not believe that Cheyney is capable of deliberation, but stupidity is no excuse.

In the Navy, if the ship is lost, the captain and the officer of the watch are court-martialed -- the origin of the phrase, "it happened on his watch." (They may, of course, be exonerated, but the court-martial is routine, as I unerstand it.)

Well, dammit, 9-11 happened on their watch!

[Cha]

5. This is what I've been saying all along and I'm sure others have,

too!

9/11 happened on bushwatch And it wasn't because they were trying their hardest and it still happened...oh no..quite the opposite.

They were warned and warned and bush went to crawford to play with the bramblebush.

[BeFree]

6. massive failure

9/11 was a massive failure of the management of intelligence. The managers being the present freeloaders in the White House.

But wait a second....aren't most of those managers holdovers from the first Bush, group of adults? Cheney, Rummy, Wolfie et al?

Integrity my ass.

[Maccagirl]

7. The blame belongs to both the WH and the Intel Community

The blame game isn't rocket science. The CIA and FBI didn't share info because of their filthy not-so secret of playing power games since their inception instead of honoring their mission statements-that is to protect the citizens of this country. The Bush WH ignored whatever intel they had because of their pathological hatred of all things Clinton. 3,000 people (and God knows how many more) are dead because of this.

[Minstrel Boy]

8. Nah - they needed it too badly

Newsweek reported shortly after the attacks that, on Sept 10, senior Pentagon officials suddenly cancelled flights for the next day "presumably for security reasons." Say what?

The next morning, long after two planes had crashed, Flight 77 is allowed unchallenged into the most restricted airspace in the country, executes a tight 270 degree turn over the Pentagon, and spirals down to strike the only side that was virtually empty for reconstruction; the only side with an exterior wall hardened against attack.

We're told the pilot wasn't interested in landing a plane, yet he essentially executed a perfect landing in the Pentagon's first floor.

We're expected to believe the pilot performed dog fight manuevers in a commercial jetliner, yet he'd been refused permission to fly a Cessna just weeks before because he lacked rudimentary skills.

questions, questions, questions...!