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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rollcast... who wrote (258178)	5/23/2002 11:24:44 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 769670

We've already blamed the various terrorist organizations around the world, countries, dictators, the official "axis of evil", etc. All that blame has been laid. Yet, we are missing something. (like, the WTC, for one thing) It certainly isn't "blame America first". msnbc.com It's "what the f* happened here, how do we avoid it" Confidence is hard to maintain, when the VP and SecDef reassure us that we're screwed here in this country, nothing can be done about, and we'll bomb hell out of everyone else anyway. Doesn't add up. Here's the questions: 1) Why did the administration treat corroborated, specific reports with the diminished degree of urgency appropriate to uncorroborated, unspecific ones? 2) Why didn’t the administration adequately stress domestic vulnerabilities to the al-Qaida plots it was hearing about? 3) Why wasn’t the FAA circular or the Aug. 6 briefing for the president a warning about al-Qaida hijackings? 4) Why wasn’t the president briefed on the possibility of suicide hijacking? 5) Why wasn’t the president advised to order stepped-up anti-hijacking security at airports?