Want to know how little our police/intelligence agencies seem to have learned from their failures prior to 9/11?
I'm afraid we don't need Black Hat/Defcon to tell us this. Just yesterday we had major terrorism alerts about specific targets and today we find out the information was all years old. Does that mean the buildings weren't targets still? Well seeing as some of the info went back prior to 9/11 it would make it seem a fairly safe bet that the seriousness of the threat was vastly overstated.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Tuesday August 03, 2004 @02:32PM (#9870472)
Yes, and the attacks were planned for these next upcoming months before the November 2 election, too. So, yet again, Bush is in the damned-if-ya-do-damned-if-ya-dont dilemma. If he didn't raise the alert, and there was an incident, and word got out that "he knew, but didn't do anything about it", well, then, there ya go. There'd be plenty for the Democrats to yell about: he covered it up to shore up votes, he's in bed with the bin Ladens, yada yada yada.
From what I've read about it, they don't have any guarantee that the plans have actually been thwarted. What would you do, Mr. Armchair Quarterback?
There's no such timing information. While they do expect some attack before the elections, that's unrelated to the current information. Which has been determined to have been largely generated pre-9/11 in any event. Read: this was an over-reaction to worthless intel; they were all excited about it because of it's specificity, but it's stale stale. The reconnaissance info that they acquired had no timing information included.
In fact, it made me think of the "intel" that Princess Leia gave to Darth ri
What police/intelligence agencies have learned. (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm afraid we don't need Black Hat/Defcon to tell us this. Just yesterday we had major terrorism alerts about specific targets and today we find out the information was all years old. Does that mean the buildings weren't targets still? Well seeing as some of the info went back prior to 9/11 it would make it seem a fairly safe bet that the seriousness of the threat was vastly overstated.
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Re:What police/intelligence agencies have learned. (Score:0)
From what I've read about it, they don't have any guarantee that the plans have actually been thwarted. What would you do, Mr. Armchair Quarterback?
Re:What police/intelligence agencies have learned. (Score:2)
There's no such timing information. While they do expect some attack before the elections, that's unrelated to the current information. Which has been determined to have been largely generated pre-9/11 in any event. Read: this was an over-reaction to worthless intel; they were all excited about it because of it's specificity, but it's stale stale. The reconnaissance info that they acquired had no timing information included.
In fact, it made me think of the "intel" that Princess Leia gave to Darth ri