I know I shouldn't be flippant about this, but jokes were actually made that the key FBIHQ personnel had to be spies or moles, like Robert Hansen, who were actually working for Osama Bin Laden to have so undercut Minneapolis' effort.http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020603/memo.htmlDavid Schippers (a guy who prosecuted Clinton!) tries to warn John Ashcroft of attacks and is ignored.
http://www.mediamonitors.net/mosaddeq36.htmlPresidential Daily Briefing "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4710772The Federal Aviation Administration received repeated warnings in the months prior to Sept. 11, 2001, about al-Qaida and its desire to attack airlines, according to a previously undisclosed report by the commission that investigated the terror attacks. The report by the Sept. 11 commission detailed 52 such warnings given to FAA leaders from April to Sept. 10, 2001, about the radical Islamic terrorist group and its leader, Osama bin Laden.http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/37/8916Able Danger.
In the first open hearing about the existence of an intelligence cell that may have identified the ringleaders of the Sept. 11 attacks a year before they happened, lawmakers sat back and let Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) run the show.
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"How can we trivialize what these people have said?" Weldon asked Cambone. "It's about just giving the story. I am not a conspiracy theorist."
"I do not understand - it is frustrating to me," he added. "I am not going to stop here. President Nixon had to resign over a third-rate burglary," while 3,000 people died in the Sept. 11 attacks.
"Maybe neither administration wants to know what happened," Weldon said. "Maybe I am offending everyone."http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/021606/news8.htmlhttp://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1620018&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312http://tinyurl.com/d69cdhttp://tinyurl.com/9sbm5http://tinyurl.com/bt3kaInternational warnings.
August 2001: Russia Warns US of Suicide Pilots
Russian President Vladimir Putin warns the US that suicide pilots are training for attacks on US targets. The head of Russian intelligence also later states, “We had clearly warned them” on several occasions, but they “did not pay the necessary attention.” A Russian newspaper on September 12, 2001, will claim, “Russian Intelligence agents know the organizers and executors of these terrorist attacks. More than that, Moscow warned Washington about preparation to these actions a couple of weeks before they happened.” Interestingly, the article will claim that at least two of the militants were Muslim radicals from Uzbekistan. http://tinyurl.com/c3y7thttp://www.cooperativeresearch.org/essay.jsp?article=essaytheytriedtowarnushttp://www.cooperativeresearch.org/essay.jsp?article=essayairdefensehttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,53065,00.html