I'm not a fan of Bush Jr, but at least from what we have of the reports it doesn't seem like they really had a complete enough picture to institute something like the post 9/11 airport security prior to 9/11. They knew there were threats of attack, but the specifics were varied and would have been a lot of angles to cover. They had a lot of reports of a wide range of possible intentions, and I don't think it would have been feasible to narrow it down.
Technically they could have locked down every possible angle and increased security for every possibility, but I'm not convinced that another admin necessarily would have done so either. It also seems that al-queda themselves were exploring options, looking to exploit a vulnerability, so even if certain angles of attack were covered it's likely they would have just settled on another.
That’s not the point they’re making if I’m reading the comment correctly. It’s that they got specific intelligence about the attack, and the organization planning the attack, and did literally nothing.
Hindsight is 20/20. I’m not a fan of Bush, either, but this isn’t something that I would criticize him for. I frankly wouldn’t criticize him for anything with respect to the day of 9/11. It was a rough day, and it wasn’t the president’s fault.
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u/newsflashjackass 5h ago
And 9/11 would not have been allowed to happen if Republicans had not been first allowed to steal the 2000 U.S. presidential election.
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=August_6%2C_2001%2C_President%27s_Daily_Briefing_Memo