Missed Calls: Is the NSA lying about its failure to prevent 9/11? (James Bamford)

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74. The only way the NSA could have prevented 9/11...

...is if the Special Security Officer would have flown to Crawford in August 2001, stuffed Shrub head-first into a gopher hole until only his presidentin'-seal socks were sticking out then wedgemated him in by shoving a box turtle up his ass, and started making phone calls to airport security offices.

ONE HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE REASON 9/11 WAS ALLOWED TO HAPPEN IS GEORGE W. BUSH IGNORING THE THREAT UNTIL IT WAS TOO DAMN LATE!

Seriously: Shrub had a Presidential Daily Briefing that told him, in unambiguous terms, Osama bin Laden was going to try to blow up the country. We know what a hijacker looks like before he ever gets on a plane - they show up at the airfield with a one-way ticket paid for in cash, don't bring luggage and act scared out of their minds. If the airlines would have been watching for hijackers like they would have been if they'd been told to, if the Air Force would have had F-16s on ramp alert to intercept any rogue planes, if the fucking Pentagon wasn't violating every reg in the book by holding a command post exercise in the bowels of the Pentagon that used the names of real enemies (you're supposed to use notional countries so that if a real attack by the people whose name you're using happens, you won't confuse live traffic for exercise traffic)...9/11 would have been just another day.