"Strick, I would have thought WTC in New York because it was tried before and the terrorists are out to cause as much death and destruction as well as hitting our "monuments" to ourselves and a center of agreat deal of world wide monitary action.

Because they tried using a truck bomb before I would have thought that they would most likely try something else (while also making sure the precautions in place to prevent that from happening again were still functioning."

Fair enough, Chief. After the August 6th PDB, I might have been thinking something completely different since it has people apparently scoping out the Federal buildings in Manhattan. I would have thought of OKC and wondered if they were looking for softer targets with tried and true methods.

Even if I decided they could use airplanes, I wouldn't have put all my eggs in one basket and focused all my attention on the Twin Towers. A likely target, yes, but so are thousands of others (we thought the building I was in on 9/11 was a natural target, too) including the Pentagon and the White House. Damned hard to protect all the possible targets for more than a week with the methods Dick Clarke proposed, much less the 6-7 weeks we had from the first alert to the actual even. In some other universe, they got it and protected the Twin Towers, only they gave up just be for the actual attack and lost them anyway.

No offense, but from my read of what little has come out of the Commission hearings so far, there wasn't much to throw out from the last administration.