Can someone help tie these loose ends: CIA & 9/11.

[The Backlash Cometh]

First, we have to assume that someone in the intelligence agencies knew something was afoot. We just don't spend billions of dollars on our intelligence agencies to be completely taken by surprise. Whether it was incompetence or a deliberate failure to be incompetent, is not the point, right now. Just that I refuse to believe we were completely taken by surprise.

Second, when the towers came down, one of the offices that were destroyed, belonged to the CIA? Yes? Do we know if there were casualties in the CIA headquarters?

Third, Vice President Cheney was "all in that" at another CIA headquarters pushing for information to take us to war. Something no other VP has ever done before.

Fourth, the CIA tried to remove 16 words from the State of the Union tying Iraq to nuclear capabilities, but someone put them back in. Who?

Fifth, the CIA, at the White House's bequest, tortured terrorist suspects.

Sixth, Now that the shit has hit the fan, the CIA destroyed tapes which probably were self-incriminating in some way, but also threw the White House under the bus in reference to Iran and nuclear capabilities. In other words, they didn't like being used the first time with Iraq, and don't plan on being used again with Iran.

So, here's what I'm thinking, is it possible, if 9/11 was really a blooper of mass proportions for our intelligence agencies, that the CIA was steaming pissed about losing personnel in the attacks, and went along with Cheney's madness because they wanted revenge too, but somewhere along the line, began to realize that the White House had given them too much freedom to do nasty things for all the wrong reasons, like torture, or maybe they found out what they wanted to find out and took care of their own private business, and now are no longer interested in being a tool for the White House?