Reply #2: If the Bush* administration had paid attention to the warnings and

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issued an alert to the FBI and the intelligence community asking for any leads regarding potential hijackings and the few hijacker's names that had been supplied by foreign nations, then all the various clues would have been given priority, and it's possible that they would have uncovered the plot before it happened. I don't think that Patriot Act measures would have been necessary. The reason the dots were not being connected is that Bush* had downgraded the priority of the fight against terrorism (IMHO).