Administration new 9/11 was coming 3 years before hand

[tangent4ronpaul]

OK, so it's sort of old news but the documents just got released...

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB381/

Highlights of the CIA September 11 Document Collection Include:

The 1998 Raw Intelligence Report on UBL's Plans to Hijack an Airplane that Became an Item in the December 4, 1998 President's Daily Brief [1998-12-03].
The report details how bin Laden was planning "new operations against the United States (U.S.) targets in the near future. Plans to hijack a U.S. aircraft were proceeding well. Two individuals from the relevant operational team in the U.S. had successfully evaded security checks during a trial run at "New York airport [excised]."


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[Lucille]

According to a January 2000 Top Secret briefing to the Director of Central Intelligence, disruption operations against the Millennium plot "bought time… weeks… months… but no more than one year" before al-Qaeda would strike. [2000-01-07] "A UBL attack against U.S. interests could occur at any time or any place. It is unlikely that the CIA will have prior warning about the time or place."

MA: "The first time when they threw me in the hole with the damn terrorists..."
Guest: "What terrorists were they?"
MA: "Oh all of them. There had about forty of them then. The first WTC, the Millennium Terrorists, I mean they were all collectively... They were, you know, praying five times a day. The guys actually drew the World Trade Center on the wall of their cell with planes going into it one year before."
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?378968-Martin-Armstrong-quot-guys-drew-the-WTC-on-the-wall...w-planes-going-into-it-1-yr-before-quot


Despite mounting warnings about al-Qaeda, the documents released today illustrate how prior to September 11, CIA counterterrorism units were lacking the funds to aggressively pursue bin Laden. "Budget concerns… CT [counterterrorism] supplemental still at NSC-OMB [National Security Council – Office of Management and Budget] level. Need forward movement on supplemental soonest due to expected early recess due to conventions, campaigning and elections. Due to budgetary constraints… CTC/UBL [Counterterrorism Center/Osama bin Laden Unit] will move from offensive to defensive posture." [2000-04-05]

No time for that, since the ruling class had elections to worry about.

Too much money to spend on the glorious Welfare State and the numerous bureaucratic boots on our throats than to attend to one of the fedgov's few Constitutionally mandated duties.