What should have been done in response to the briefing that Bin Laden planned to attack the US?

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3. He could have ended his vacation, for starters, and gone back to DC to confer

on an emergency basis with the military and State.

He could have ordered an immediate gathering of more information -- the kind of coordination between the FBI and other authorities that was only ordered AFTER the attacks.

He could have put the whole country in high alert.

He could have sent an order to the FAA instructing them to put security officials in high alert. There was a TSA employee who almost detained one of the terrorists; if such an alert had been in place he almost certainly would have.

He could have ordered that all cockpit doors be secured.

He could have stopped flights over the White House and the Pentagon.

He could have put the bin Laden family under surveillance (remember, he gave them special treatment when he helped them leave the country at a time when no airlines were allowed to fly).