NY and DC tragedies

[techie_girl_44]

Is anybody else just a little bit at the news about the top-secret CIA document talking about the possibility of hi-jackings by Al Qaeda members? http://www.msnbc.com/news/752980.asp?pne=msn

Although Mrs. Condoleeza says the threats were too general I don't know about all that. There should have been some sort of warning made to the general public. I also think more serious measures to guard against these hijackers should have been taken. I mean Bush and the CIA knew that bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorists were/are crazy enough to pull anything they could think of to harm Americans. They also knew that mass destruction was their M.O. I think maybe somebody in the White House, the CIA or the FBI could have put together the clues. Maybe they could have had stronger watches for attempted terrorists instead of having them train to fly in America.

Reports are saying that some families of those on the hijacked airplanes are about the findings. I sense some serious lawsuit attempts coming on. What opinions does everybody have about these new developments?

[Virtual Violet]

Originally posted by techie_girl_44
Is anybody else just a little bit at the news about the top-secret CIA document talking about the possibility of hi-jackings by Al Qaeda members? http://www.msnbc.com/news/752980.asp?pne=msn

Although Mrs. Condoleeza says the threats were too general I don't know about all that. There should have been some sort of warning made to the general public. I also think more serious measures to guard against these hijackers should have been taken. I mean Bush and the CIA knew that bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorists were/are crazy enough to pull anything they could think of to harm Americans. They also knew that mass destruction was their M.O. I think maybe somebody in the White House, the CIA or the FBI could have put together the clues. Maybe they could have had stronger watches for attempted terrorists instead of having them train to fly in America.

Reports are saying that some families of those on the hijacked airplanes are about the findings. I sense some serious lawsuit attempts coming on. What opinions does everybody have about these new developments?

Don't expect any lawsuits, a little concept called "governmental immunity" will prevent that!!

I suspect this isn't the last we are going to learn about how much "advance notice" the government had regarding this terrorist plot.

[TLAW]

It's stuff like this that feeds anarchist and other people with a basic distrust for government. All I'll say is this: I hope it's not true. Still, People do weird things for power, and popularity is a big drug.

[nikki25]

As I look over the way that the U.S. government typically responds to matters of a civic and security importance, this knowledge is not too surprising. It took a catastrophy of high enormity to make changes of the scale done post 9-11. Even still, I don't think that the security has been high enough. There is no uniform standard, nor has the possibility of threats been removed on a nuclear security end. Additionally, you see some airports scaling back on their security campaigns. For instance in some municipalities, servicemen are no longer at the airports, but local police are. It doesn't sound as if the nation is heightening its security efforts when things such as these take place. Rather, the nation seems in a rather regressive mode.