History Memes

I think Clinton et al. fumbled some balls in their own efforts to address the problem, probably made others worse. But it was the discarding of intelligence as if it wasn't worth at least monitoring that caused 9/11. Something may have eventually happened even with attention to the data, they were dead set on coming after the US, but in a sense we let them in when we didn't have to. I've always said, what if the gov't made the FAA mandate a closed cockpit to all airlines before then, how would that have changed things? A huge shift from just a rule change.