Like the immigration debate, you can bring so many factors into the 9/11 Truth issue that it verges on jabberwocky after awhile.

I want to take up farhad's criminal negligence point. I disagree with it, but it is such a fascinating and still unsettled intra-governmental debate.

Do we want a government where the Intelligence and Criminal Enforcement agencies are freely sharing information? If you take it too far, you have the Stasi or any other 20th Century communist police state apparatus you can name.

There is no question that DOJ, FBI, and the CIA are unprepared to deal with the Arab world. I have so many funny (sad) stories about efforts to "thwart" terrorist money laundering alone. There is also no question that the US Government undervalued or failed to assess properly this threat. I don't know that it is negligence, though; it is more a refusal to adapt to realities of positioning in the post-Cold War period.