Clinton admin really screwed up when they had numerous chances to get OBL. Then the OBL file didn't even land on Condi's desk till Sept. 11th. You cannot as an NSA say you did everything you could while not taking proactive steps to get the info. Or trying to. To this day you'd have to restrain me because I'd like to punch her for saying that. However, she was right about one thing: who could have thought of airplanes as missiles at the time? I disagree with the assertion that this was an "amateur" job. It really downplays what they accomplished. They passed through every security barrier to achieve it. KSM (Kahleid Sheikh Mossad) had an ingenious game plan. After training in Afghanistan they'd just say "Oh we lost our passports" and new ones would be issued, wiping out their previous travel history. It's stoopid, but he knew the loop holes. Red alerts weren't even updated on the airline systems. Upper management in the FBI wouldn't even know about key pieces of info presumably because security was so enclosed. The Cold War system of looking outward and not inward. You could carry a small knife onboard. The security guy who screened one of the hijackers you can see the video footage of him wanding him while having something in his back pocket. It's still surreal seeing the helicopter shots of a great big hole in the north tower. The scale is something else. When you see the towers falling that thing is tipping over at least a block radius to the side. There was a firefighter unit posted a block or two from the towers just minutes before the collapse. Don't know what happened..... Ramzi Yousef, the guy who lit the bomb in '93 at the WTC, you have to think about that for a second: he could literally drive into one of the most noted building in America with tons of detonation, light it, and drive out without any security resistance. I'm biased but still think 102 Minutes That Changed America is the greatest docu ever. It's so raw. A landing gear traveled out and hit a woman and shred her entire back. Engines would fly out the other ends of the towers some 3-6 blocks. Intenational flights were chosen because they contained the most fuel. It was really well thought out. Sad, but also brilliant. I'll add more as stuff comes to my mind.
