"We have no idea how this could have happened."
That is the reaction Israeli officials have been giving today when I ask them how, with all its vast resources, Israeli intelligence did not see this attack coming.
Dozens of armed Palestinian gunmen were able to cross the heavily fortified border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, while thousands of rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel.
With the combined efforts of Shin Bet, Israeli domestic intelligence, Mossad, its external spy agency and all the assets of the Israel Defense Forces, it is frankly astounding that nobody saw this coming.
Or if they did, they failed to act on it.
9/11 was more bureaucratic incompetence than anything.
No it wasn't.
Cheney set it up so intelligence agencies couldn't communicate directly, they had to report to him, and he had to decide if something should be shared.
All the pieces were there, and the dots would have been connected. But Cheney didn't let anyone else see all the dots.
It's literally all on a single person, the "bureaucratic incompetence" stuff was just Republicans blaming "big government" so they wouldn't blame the Bush administration
Actually the FBI and the CIA had the dots but didn't share their information. Why? I don't really know I leave it up to speculation, maybe it was the Bush Administration but to me its because the CIA doesn't want the other US intelligence agencies to know about their business. Had they shared none of that happened but I bet it's because they're a fucked up organization. Then again the USA is a fucked up country.
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