Reply #35: Just some observations

[ewagner]

First, I hope your essay is widely distributed and very widely read. It is an excellent synopsis of the book and will serve as a "reader's digest version" to those who cannot or will not take the time to read the whole book. The essay is eloquent and forceful. Again, I congratulate you on an excellent work.

I noticed in some of the other responses that there was some comentary about the role of the CIA and FBI in September 11. While praising the Clinton Administration in thwarting terrorist attacks, it implies that the CIA was most certainly "on top of its game" during those years. The next logical question to be asked then is, What happened between January 22, 2001 and September 11, 2001? How could these same, seemingly competetent, agencies become so grossly incompetetent in just over eight months? The implications is that the agencies didn't get stupid, the administration did. While many of us believe that this is the absolute truth, there is no single, simple smoking gun to back it up. Hence, we're consigned to the ignominy of conspiracy theorists.

Great work.

Again, I hope it is widely read.