Re: U.S. warned in 1995 of plot to hijack planes, attack buildings

[Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris wrote:

<Well, make up your mind. In your last post you said all you were doing was 
relaying info.>

What the heck are you talking about ?

<How can you say it was a "MAJOR intelligence breakdown?" Is there some chain 
that they failed to
follow from one end to the other? Is this the same plot? I mean, it targeted 
different places than
those listed in the report you gave a URL for. Where do you feel they dropped 
the ball?>

Huh ? Ramzi Yousef at the time was KNOWN to be the original WTC bomber...  They 
also mention the
Pentagon as a target. Those are "different places" ?

<Don't be stupid, Chuck.>

Excuse me ? I think you are not understanding how the intelligence community 
works.

<They will uncover many plans as time goes on. Do you think that only one 
terrorist ever has any
one kind of plan? So if bin Laden didn't think of attacking the WTC it would 
have never happened?>

Again, you are missing the WHOLE picture here.

<The sort of inflamatory, finger pointing rhetoric that you attached to that 
story is pretty
mindless. There is nothing in the story to say that there was any chance that 
anyone could ever
have stopped what happened based on what was found six years ago.>

It was ANYTHING but "inflammatory, finger pointing rhetoric", brother...

<By "fly off the handle" I mean you jumped to a conclusion not led to by the 
article you referred
to and took that opportunity to insult people who are dedicated to saving 
lives. I didn't think
you were all that stirred up about it.>

That is not what was intended and I am sorry you took it that way.  I have many 
friends in this
group, DEA, SS, FBI, and the "others".

<My guess is that doing stuff like that is just SOP with you.>

Not at all.

<It sure is. So you are free to add editorial. You are also free to post follow 
ups lying and
saying, "I was just passing on the information." But when you lie and say such, 
I am also free to
point out that you aren't telling the truth.>

Again, you are way out of you league, I'm afraid...

Chuck