Another Story of What Might Have Been

AJStrata has the scoop on yet another story that illustrates how close we had been to preventing 9/11 if red tape could have been replaced with better cooperation. It is certainly borderline infuriating (hell, infuriating, period) how much information we knew about the hijackers prior to 9/11, including monitoring by government agencies that knew they were national security risks. I still think many people, including the main culprit of AJ's story, got off way too easy for what seem to be colossal, incredibly costly blunders...

UPDATE 08/09/05 10:02 a.m. central: The MinuteMan pours a bit of water on the flames, suggesting we may be seeing a 'publicity leak' for an upcoming book...

UPDATE 08/09/05 3:47 p.m. central: Slate's Eric Umansky is very skeptical; Captain Ed says, fine, just don't let the skepticism run one way...