Quote: whomod said: I'll place the blame 1st on the terrorists and secondly at the doorstep of the fucking Federal Beauru of *koff* Investigation and their ineffective beauracracy. After all they had alll the clues and didn't act on them nor inform the chain of command.
and if blame has to be placed, and someone has to be held responsible, than i guess it'd have to be them.
still, tho, i have trouble placing blame with stuff like this.
"the fbi not figuring it out" and "the fbi failing to figure it out" have two intensely different connotations.
not that i wanna make excuses for anyone to do their job, but... do you realize how many people there are in the world to keep tabs on? if all of our time was concentrated on al qaeda, timmothy mcveigh could have blown up the pentagon.
there are just so many things to look for. so many clues that don't make sense until after the crime is solved.
then there's the factors that made it even harder to "expect"
these weren't terrorists, they were american citizens. these weren't soldiers, they were accountants. these weren't strips of dynomite, they were airliners. these weren't strategic targets, they were civilian.
thats why i hate stuff, like with clarke, where people just come forward now and say "well, of course this happened!"
thats like leaving the theater with someone and they say 'i knew he was the killer"
and you're thinking "no you didn't! that was one of 70 of your guesses"
