response 1 of 67:

May 30 06:03 UTC 2002

There is credible evidence that the request for search warrants
for the '20th hijacker' was modified by FBIHQ for political reasons
such that FBIHQs own 'PC' squad then rejected it prior to submission
to a judge.  In retrospect it was obviously an error.  It is also
probable that the results of the search had the warrant been
approved would not have prevented the events of 9/11. (Otherwise
we would already have heard that as it would have been leaked.)

Profiling has its place, but there is something to be said for
the practice of personal responsability where in order to get
a warrant an 'agent' must swear an oath (under penalty of falsehood)
that s/he has knowlege justifying the warrant.

response 3 of 67:

May 30 14:24 UTC 2002

The Register has an item today basically saying that these disclosures ane
probably a ploy to give more power to the FBI.  

response 5 of 67:

May 30 17:47 UTC 2002

I'm concerned about this, since I keep reading articles like the one in
today's San Francisco Chronicle, including quotes from these FBI memos that
don't sound like justifiable suspicions to me.  The Oklahoma City memo
apparrently said that an agent  had "observed large numbers of Middle Eastern
males receiving flight training at Oklahoma airports in recent months."  What
the articles don't say is whether that was the extent of the cited evidence,
or if there was more to it than that.  In hindsight, we know something was
coming, but if that's the evidence they had at the time, I'm glad to hear FBI
management quashed it.  Middle Eastern men who aren't terrorists should
be able to get flight training without harrassment.

response 7 of 67:

May 30 20:19 UTC 2002

Don't worry, we're safe from terrorism as long as we don't give 'aid and
comfort' to our enemies by criticizing Bush.

response 9 of 67:

May 30 20:41 UTC 2002

#5, last paragraph> Don't let Ann Coulter hear you say that.

response 11 of 67:

May 31 05:10 UTC 2002

One of the 'smoking gun' memos, the one from phoenix I believe, that
proved "Bush Knew" speculated that arab terrorist might train
pilots to use small planes to spray bio/rad.  No mention of
flying large commercial aircraft into buildings.

response 13 of 67:

May 31 06:01 UTC 2002

I dunno - I think it's a bit of a stretch.  Sounds to me like an idea
that one could patent.

response 15 of 67:

May 31 07:32 UTC 2002

Re #4:  It's not conspiratorial at all to note that the FBI always
wants more power (name an agency that doesn't), and 9/11 was the perfect
pretext to get it.  The big security act (USA PATRIOT act?) passed
last year contained a laundry-list of old requests that couldn't be
moved until the attacks provided the ideological cover.

response 17 of 67:

May 31 22:01 UTC 2002

That last line was great.  :)  

response 19 of 67:

Jun 2 08:17 UTC 2002

Are you really on the radical right, or are you just trying to piss 
people off?

response 21 of 67:

Jun 2 12:27 UTC 2002

The Taliban's agenda is to have our culture more closely comform to their
culture.  And the way they've set about doing that is incredibly clever in
it's simplicity.  They'll blow up a few buildings full of people then sit
back and watch as our fear (and Ashcroft) does the rest. 

It's working like a trained pig.

response 23 of 67:

Jun 2 16:29 UTC 2002

Re #21:  I appreciate the sentiments, but would appreciate a cite to any
         reliable source that claims that's the Taliban's agenda.  Everything
         I've seen suggests that their agenda is either (1) get the US out
          of the Moslem world so they can make it conform to their perverted
         version of Islam, or (2) start an all-out war with the Evil West so
         Bin Laden could become the new Saladin, unify the Moslem world, and
         see (1) above.

         Actually, what I'm saying refers to Al Qaeda.  As far as I know,
          the Taliban's only agenda was to govern Afghanistan according to
         their twisted version of Islamic law.