What is your opinion about the warnings of Sept 11?

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It was too vague but Ari should have put out some info regarding the threat.

With all the intelligence that comes and goes through the White House, it was probably not solid enough to take drastic action on.(Such as whats going on at the borders and at the airports today).

One has to have Sept. 10 mentality to really answer this question. How serious would the American public taken a August warning saying that possible hijackings could happen anywhere, home or aboard we don't know? Hell the warnings that are in place now have little effect. People are complaining about searches at the airport. Hindsight is always 20/20. It's hard to remember how things were before the 11th.

If the American people were warned about every threat that reached our soil then we'd have a freakin mad house of bullshit stirring around. Solid evidence is still the number one reason to act on something. In the case of Sept 11, American Intelligence was inadequate

If we took all threats seriously, the majority of the public would be afraid to drive, fly, eat at mcdonalds, drink city water, or even walk across the street.
What i hate about this whole cituation is the political\beaucratic bullshit. Name calling, blame shifting, and all the other fruity business that diverts attention from real issues, like eliminating welfare, to speculating about what document could have passed someone's desk possibly warning us against a possible hijacking in some part of the world.

LONG LIVE CAPITALISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!(formerly a capitalist nation)
SLOWLY THE SOCIALISM CREEPES IN
MORE PROGRAMS, BIGGER GOVERNMENT, MORE GOV. INTERVENTION,
Where will it stop?

They make a chicken out of a feather, or something like that.

Do you realize the sheer volume of data that the US intelligence service collects on a daily basis? We are talking terabytes--if not more data.

Once that is sifted by computer the pieces that are deemed important are passed on to human analysts (in at least 5 different agencies, often more, few of which share data) and the threats are analyzed and they have a credibility rating assigned to it.

Of the hunderds of 'credible' threats that are collected daily, they have to act on each one based on the percieved level of the threat.

If we rang the alarms every time there was a threat, it would never be silent!

Hopefully, post Sept. 11th, the government will do a better job selecting credible threats, but that will be hard to do.

we live in an unpredictable and unsafe world. Sad but true!

Two little lines in a full report…what the hell was Bush suppose to do with that?

For those that like to read, I rant on…There are at least three big problems here that seem to effect everything with governing today. First the government and related agencies are too damn big and pork loaded. They can’t even get out of their own way. An FBI agent in Phoenix submits a warning, but it never even makes it out of FBI channels that are bogged down with red tape. Why? Whatever the reason it’s not Bush’s fault. Just fix it! Second this is obviously a shallow politically motivated attempt to smear those in power at the Whitehouse. Liberals are trying to chip away at Bush’s popularity rating. Now, I can’t stand liberal bias in the media so I started watching Fox News. Compared to the other options, it seems extremely conservative, but it really isn’t extreme anything. I strongly recommend it! Back to the second big problem. Anytime one political party is out of power, they will attempt anything to get it back. It’s not a matter of party, or morals, or justice, it’s about Power and Money! Finally, the last election might have you thinking that every vote counts but it really doesn’t. This country is ruled by Corporations and Special Interest Groups that all have huge amounts of money to buy influence and favor. You’re not only voting for the guy you like the most or the guy you hate the least, you are voting for the special interest groups that put him there. Do you really believe this country can’t develop an alternative to oil? Nonsense! Would any sane person create a tax code that was over ten thousand pages long? No, but attorneys would. Do you really think that if ketchup had half of the toxic shit that alcohol or cigarettes have that it would still be on the shelves. Hell no! I could go on and on.

Despite it all, this is still the best damn country in the world and the land of the free. It’s the people that make it strong. It’s the people that make the economy go. It’s the people that defend it (voluntary military). It’s the people that make freedom work!

We the people…

way to vauge IMO

Yep too vague. I have nothing further to say.

Only he knows.....

Metz

Its weird how Bush was in Flordia when it happened.

They knew all too well there were too many things that went on prior to it, lots of money was made of airline stocks of companies that suffered as a result, and what has been gained by it is too good for the peeps in charge.
And all they have to do now is say this and that countyr is a terrorist threat and go and attack:rolleyes:

And the suckerpunch is that too many of the so-called people suppose to have done this have turned up alive, theres no proof to point to which people did this yet we have already gone to war with a country over this and another country soon.
And a few more are being short listed.
I don't see how people can be this naive and not ask questions?

The US gets millions of threats from millions of extreme groups, like ajax said, if we acted upon and took even half of these threats seriously everyone would be afraid to do anything. sad.