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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KonKilo who wrote (514)	5/2/2003 10:26:14 AM
From: LPS5	Respond to of 20039

I agree - it seems an exceptional factor. What I'd said was, my proposed explanations ('theories') are not exceptional; alternately stated, they're not flamboyant or, specifically, conspiratorial in nature. OK - I'll post them later or tomorrow, have to run right now. LPS5

To: KonKilo who wrote (514)	5/8/2003 10:27:35 AM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20039

Having said that, I would be interested to hear your theories. Boiled down (owing to current time constraints), I attribute the unacceptable reluctance of the administration to hold 9/11 hearings to their unwillingness - indeed, any government's unwillingness - to admit massive shortcomings in the face of what many will note are seemingly incessant increases in funding (read: budget hikes fed by concurrent increases in taxation] over the years. It is my belief that although the various intelligence gathering facilities of the government are deluged with information of varying specificity in a given time period, none of what were in retrospect painfully indicative, tragic hints were compelling when viewed piecemeal across different governmental organizations which didn't habitually cross-pollenate. Nonetheless, people will inevitably ask why it is that in the time leading up to 9/11, dots weren't connected - and that is the right question to ask, in my opinion. But I'm personally disinclined toward offering, as a primary explanation, uncorroborated conspiratorial tales. Rather, I'd first lean toward both (a) the massive inefficiency of (and rivalry between) fragmented bureaucratic offices and (b) inflated/poorly-founded expectations of military and intelligence capabilities in light of the nature of the exigent threat. That is at least until compelling, credible information squarely refuting those explanations is available. LPS5