FBI Official Calls 9/11 Views a 'Pile of Manure'

[Drift3r]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030929/us_nm/security_fbi_dc_2

FBI Official Calls 9/11 Views a 'Pile of Manure'
Mon Sep 29, 3:50 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top FBI official on Monday dismissed as a "pile of manure" the view that another huge attack like the one on Sept. 11, 2001, can be thwarted if only the FBI simply "reads the tea leaves" correctly.

"Anybody who thinks that ... some horrible event like that couldn't happen again if the FBI just reads the tea leaves right, that is a pile of manure to me," FBI Assistant Director Michael Mason said in a wide-ranging news briefing.

Mason, who was named recently to head the FBI's Washington field office, said key signs often did not become apparent until after an incident had been perpetrated and that the "dots are not self-evident" at the time.

Congressional investigators have sharply criticized the FBI for failing "to connect the dots" by missing a number of possible clues that might have prevented the hijacked plane attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

"The notion that had we just done the math right, we would have stopped 9/11, is absurd to me, it's absolutely absurd," Mason said. "I suppose when the 115th commission gets through with their work, perhaps we will all have arrived at that same conclusion."

Besides the congressional investigation, an independent commission is conducting its own inquiry into the Sept. 11 attacks against the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

Mason said the FBI should be subject to such scrutiny. "I think what happens from those crucibles is we are smarter than we were pre-9/11, without a doubt."

 

[Zebo]

So what do we need him for then? about half the governemnt employees should be fired anyway. Thier payroll alone is over 1/2 of the federal buget and thier are over 50 law enforcement agentcies. (2.5 million employees x 55K sal and benefit average = 1.5 trillion/2.5) I'm wth true conservatives here.. The governement is an ineffective laviathan with people feeding at the trough and compacentcy has set in. They are unresponsive to those people they are paid to serve and arrogant about it.

 

[Drift3r]

Originally posted by: Zebo
So what do we need him for then? about half the governemnt employees should be fired anyway. Thier payroll alone is over 1/2 of the federal buget and thier are over 50 law enforcement agentcies. (2.5 million employees x 55K sal and benefit average = 1.5 trillion/2.5) I'm wth true conservatives here.. The governement is an ineffective laviathan with people feeding at the trough and compacentcy has set in. They are unresponsive to those people they are paid to serve and arrogant about it.

Same reason they made up this freaking giant monster called the Department of Homeland Defense.

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: Drift3r

Originally posted by: Zebo
So what do we need him for then? about half the governemnt employees should be fired anyway. Thier payroll alone is over 1/2 of the federal buget and thier are over 50 law enforcement agentcies. (2.5 million employees x 55K sal and benefit average = 1.5 trillion/2.5) I'm wth true conservatives here.. The governement is an ineffective laviathan with people feeding at the trough and compacentcy has set in. They are unresponsive to those people they are paid to serve and arrogant about it.

Same reason they made up this freaking giant monster called the Department of Homeland Defense.

It's Homeland Security but does'nt that name strike you as odd? I'm sure Department of Motherland or Fatherland Sercurity was floated around the table. The totaliarian governemnt is out of control, a cancer, infecting and growing.