If we could please take a break from arguing about lack of style for a second...


This stands out to me:

Quote:

1998-99

-- Clinton sponsors legislation to freeze the financial assets of international organizations suspected of funneling money to bin Laden's Al Qaeda network, but it is killed, on behalf of big banks, by Republican Senator Phil Gramm of Texas. George Bush will later call for identical legislation

-- but only after September 11, 2001.




Now, had this gone through, I don't know that it would have prevented 9/11. But it might have. Maybe I'm reaching here, but perhaps by freezing assets, and money, red flags might have gone up. Those flags, added to the suspicious flight school students might have actually caught the eye of one of the clearly incompetent top dogs of the FBI, or CIA. Obviously, lack of communication between agencies, or was it between just the one agency, may have been directly responsible for 9/11, but still, it had to be funded.

<sub>Will Eisner's last work - The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
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