Reply #35: and it's frighteningly easy to blow up their 'couldn't connect the dots' excuse

[UNCLE_Rico]

Unfortunately, none of this is particularly 'news' and the people who are disinclined to believe in the 'conspiracy theory' of 9/11 will simply cling to the good ol' 'they knew something was coming but they didn't know where, when, how, etc, so how could they have done anything about it?'

Trust me, I've been having this argument with everyone I know for 5 years now.

The thing that really blows this argument up is Zacarias Moussaoui.

As we all know by now, ZM was in custody, plucked out a flight school in MN, and the agent in charge of the case wrote in his notes that this guy is the type to hijack a plane and crash it into the world trade center. Clearly, DOTS WERE BEING CONNECTED, folks!

Subsequently, the US government (I forget if it was CIA or FBI) got info from France saying that ZM was IN AL QAEDA. And guess what the CIA says about that information? THEY NEVER GOT IT. Or, if they did, they lost it!

The lawyers at the FBI HQ (Dave Frasca being the name of the individual who actually took it upon himself to deny the field officers FISA warrant request without ever even letting a FISA judge review it!) basically refused to allow ZM's laptop to be searched, based on their oh-so-credible defense that they would be invading his 'civil rights'. An excuse facilitated ONLY because they conveniently 'lost' literally a HUGE dossier on this guy that was provided by French Intelligence, info that would've made the FISA warrant such a slam-dunk it's pathetic.

Truth is, a warrant to search that machine probably was a slam-dunk even WITHOUT that info, since they were almost never turned down and most certainly wouldn't have been had some high-ranking CIA/FBI types signed their names to it. And given that we know at the time that Tenet's hair was aflame, and red warning lights were flashing, etc, it seems impossible to believe that info about the Moussaoui arrest wasn't handed up the chain of command.

If it truly wasn't, we need to get down to the reason(s) WHY it wasn't, and whoever blocked that info from reaching Tenet and Mueller needs to spend some time at Gitmo getting waterboarded to find out WHO put him up the task of protecting Al Qaeda and their quest to commit the 9/11 atrocities (rather than getting a fat raise and some presidential award for his brave fight against the terra'ists like Dave Frasca ended up getting...)

Couldn't connect the dots MY ASS. Like Colleen Rowley said: There WERE Al-Qaeda MOLES in place in the FBI. And someone needs to figure out who put them there.