Atrios points to the Operation: Ignore excerpt from Al Franken's book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, all about what the Bush administration should have known and when regarding the terrorist attacks that happened on September 11, 2001. My jaw dropped when I read,
On August 16, the INS arrested Zacharias Moussaoui, a flight school student who seemed to have little interest in learning to take off or land a plane. The arresting agent wrote that Moussaoui seemed like "the type of person who could fly something into the World Trade Center." Trying to pique the interest of FBI Headquarters in Washington, a Minneapolis FBI agent wrote that a 747 loaded with fuel could be used as a weapon. lf this information had been shared and analyzed, for example by a newly founded Homeland Security Agency, it might have sparked memories of the Clinton-thwarted 1996 al Qaeda plot to hijack an American commercial plane and crash it into CIA Headquarters.Check out the whole thing; utterly fascinating reading, and very relevant to what's gone on these past few weeks with the 9-11 commission hearings.
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