I think it goes to two points. #1. How was the question worded vs. how were the results posted. For instance. I believe that there was intelligence indicating something was being planned. (There has probably been some nut case some where planning something forever, so how valuable is "someone is planning something") However, I don't believe that means the President knew the Trade Center was about to be attacked. It could mean that the Trade Center as well as 2 dozen other locations had been identified as possible targets. Then again that was established when it was attacked in the 1990s, so no new intelligence there. I would be more concerned if our intelligence community was absolutely clueless, than if they had some of the pieces and hadn't linked them together yet. But knowledge of a few pieces doesn't make one aware of what is being planned.
I was playing hold'em last night. I had an Ace high Flush. There was a possible straight showing as well as a low pair showing. I had part of the picture. So did the guy who HAD the straight. Neither of use saw the Full House that took us both down. There was a low pair showing A(we were thinking the other guy had a three of a kind), we shoulda, coulda etc.. only in hindsight did it all come together. It was pretty easy for the guy with the boat to tell us we should have seen it coming etc... and he rubbed it in. But if you always think the other guy has more, then you loose because there is only one hand that can't loose. Every other hand has the possibility of being beat. As a FREE society we play the odds and occasionally we get beat. But in return we have a pretty decent place to live with a pretty decent standard of living. We could keep ourselves from being bombed, robbed, hijacked etc... But how much freedom are you willing to give up to add what percentage to your safety factor? Prison is a pretty controlled environment. People are stabbed, beaten, killed etc... all the time. If someone is determined (suicide bomber), you are not going to stop them. They will find new tactics to circumvent your precautions. They only have to be successful once. #2. As was stated earlier, I think the last couple of administrations have been caught in what at least appears to be less than truthful situations more than previous administrations. Or that the focus of current news addresses these issues more than historically. I wonder how Kennedy would have held up under todays media's watchful eye? Then there is the Internet, blogs, websites etc... attacking every little thing anyone in public life does. So I'm not sure if Bush and his administration are less honest than previous administrations. But he sure seems to get caught more often. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:234073 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
