Reply #23: To answer "why", I give you the lamest excuse ever

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While I do not have the exact quote, it was something like this, out of Condi:

"The warnings were vague, we did not know whether the attacks were planned for targets inside the US, or US interests abroad. The warnings did not provide us with a place or time".

This argument is so weak. If the CIA/FBI had a specific place or time, even factoring their incompetency, they would have nabbed the perps before any of this happened.

On a personal note, if I were working as a security guard at any airport, and someone tried to get a set of boxcutters past me (even if they weren't specifically on the ban list), I would have told them to get fucked.

Too many things "went wrong" for this to be an isolated incident.