Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[to_da_moon]

No I didn't see the Clarke hearing and suppose the Repubs worked him over.
I have spent some years in my career working intelligence. Now it was criminal intelligence and not with the CIA and from the suppositions made from the Clarke allegations my feeling is he is trying to push the blame elsewhere when in my estimation 911 was impossible to have been prevented unless and only unless one of the suicide members had a change of heart and gave the information to authorities. If you sat down today and tried to imagine every possible scenario whereby radicals could cause catastropic death and mayhem I'm sure you could conjure up so many possibilities that the recipients of your lists would say it's not safe anymore to get out of one's basement. Everyone stay at home and dig bomb shelters again.
Unfortunately Clarke never was able to do more than just that of conjuring up possibilities. No one dreamed of the Bin Laden's plans but the bad guys, and not all of them knew they were going to their deaths either.