[marcusjt]

> They were busy snoring when it came to 9/11.

They weren't snoring of course, there's no shortage of evidence showing foreknowledge about 9/11 that was consciously ignored by the Bush administration and the intelligence services prior to the event and then (only half-successfully) covered up afterwards.

[99052882514569]

Hindsight bias at its finest.

The real issue was identified in the first few years after 9/11 - disparate patchwork of teams overzealously enforcing moats around their intel/data.

[pharrington]

https://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf

Actually read the report, or at least skim it starting from page 254. What you're saying is just not true.

[whatshisface]

Since we're speculating about spies, politics and secrecy to begin with, is it really in the spirit of the game to just trust a report published by the government that says the government was doing things right?

[pharrington]

I'm not playing a game.

Specifically, which part(s) of the report are you refuting? Please provide pages and paragraphs #s or quotes.

[omarchowdhury]

How's he going to refute anything specific without himself being privy to government knowledge?

[onetimemanytime]

>>consciously ignored by the Bush administration and the intelligence services prior to the event and then

No doubt someone is screaming that yesterday an attack was going to go on in X country.

And "consciously" is a very loaded word.