Reply #133: You really should take a break. You're getting agitated [View All]

over a simple discussion.

Clinton did not thwart the Bojinka Plot, the plot was uncovered in the Philipines and then reported to the CIA. That plot, had it succeeded would have hi-jacked 12 planes and crashed them and their 4,000 passengers into various buildings in the US. Back then, Al Qaeda had not yet been connected to the many terror attacks, including the first WTC bombing.

But it WAS during the Clinton admins. that that connection began to be made. However, the Repubs constantly accused Clinton of 'wagging the dog' over his insistence that terror was a big threat to this country. Still, the NYC tunnel bombing was prevented, among others and through the trials of the 1993 bombers, a great deal of information was revealed about the terror network, enough that the intelligence community were pretty certain that there would be another major attack on US soil. Anyone paying attention to those trials, as we in NY most certainly did, never doubted there would be another attack. Only morons like Giuliani and George Bush decided there was not problem that required their attention and they are responsible for gross negligence of their duty to the American people.

So, since the intel. community was doing its job, they warned about the imminent attack during the summer of 2001, the system was working. But without the cooperation of the top people there was no way to stop it. That does NOT mean the system itself failed, it means Bush/Cheney,Giuliani et al failed.

Systems always need updating and improvements, but there is no way anyone can fault those who were desperately trying to stop an attack they absolutely had uncovered using the system that was then in place.

The pretext of 'who could have imagined' was a lie! And everything after that has been a lie. The wars, the waste of lives and money, none of which have done a single thing to make this country safer.