"Are you saying, therefore, Strick, that the US led war was a bad decision?"

Foremost in my mind was another fairly long thread about the Aug 6th Presidential Daily Briefing that's been in the news lately. I don't consider it actionable nor does it give any legitimate warning of what was to come on 9/11 (unlike what's been represented in the media). In my mind it repeats some fairly obvious things: it says Ben Laden wants to attack the US - which after two attacks on the US have already taken place shouldn't have been news and it warns terrorists would like to hijack planes which hasn't been news since the 70s. The "warning" on the hijacking even couches it in the form of taking hostages to free imprisoned terrorists, no mention of using them as missles. Then it manages to give the impression that the FBI, with 70 ongoing investigations, where on top of things.

Seems like a good, or rather, bad example.