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by pedalpete 4477 days ago
"They knew next to nothing pre 9/11 (1), odds are they know next to nothing now."

But I suspect what __Pthrow was suggesting was that the agencies could look back at the chatter they gathered, and put the pieces together from what they heard. Though, in order to do this, they'd still need to have some idea of what they are looking for.