But it is like everything else, I suppose.
It will be forgotten that there was even a suggestion of it as the road to November splits into ever more little dirt tracks.

What the FBI and CIA independently knew, however, may not be the point, at all. What the President knew and understood to be the case in the lead up to 9/11, could be.

I think that for a long time, we have been encouraged to look at the problem from the angle that before George W. entered the White House, he was totally unaware of anything. Period! And that it took him up to 9/11 to get up to date on everything. That the man had grown up in a family which had its' ear closer to the ground than your 'average American's', seems to have passed some people by, in no more than an anecdotal sense.

If he knew, or could imagine the concept, irrespective of where he would pick up that kind of info, that planes could be used as weapons (although even hindsight didn't prevent the recent attacks on the oil platforms off Basra), then he is at fault, if he didn't upp the priority on looking into it. The $80bn he got from Congress to finance a war, would have gone a long way in increasing the Internal Security of The United States, in my opinion, had it been spent at the air and sea ports, and had he made an equally heart-felt plea for it.

I am starting to believe that the Bush White House knew quite well the danger Al Qaeda posed. They just thought they would never attempt it, that's all.

Jim