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The American CIA told other nations a particular individual was a potential suicide hijacker, but *at virtually the same time* the FBI rejected the possibility that he would crash a plane into a building - in part because they didn't see him on a list of terrorists.

You're right, it's just that simple. The entire resources of the FBI and the CIA and, frankly all intelligence agencies in the world were dedicated at assessing the likelihood of this one guy driving an airplane into a building as a terrorist attack.

How can you possibly really be this @#%^ing brain dead?

If they had attacked by launching exploding cans of spaghetti-os at the White House, you'd be here blindly spewing rhetoric about how smart the one idiot who worried that it might happen was and decrying the fact that the rest of the intelligence community didn't suddenly gain psychic powers and realize that this fairly meaningless threat was going to happen.

See, Gomer, that's how it works. Sometimes unlikely things DO HAPPEN. It's just the way it is. Someone's going to die because they got hit by a meteor. That doesn't mean we should only go outside equipped with 900 pound meteor shields. Get it yet, idiot? They triaged the risk, and it was low enough not to warrant action. Turns out the unlikely happened. That's the way it goes sometimes.

Edited, Aug 15th 2007 8:20:22pm by Smasharoo