Flutterby™! : Eichenwald on September 11th warnings

Kurt Eichenwald in the New York Times runs down the warnings leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks:

Could the 9/11 attack have been stopped, had the Bush team reacted with urgency to the warnings contained in all of those daily briefs? We can’t ever know. And that may be the most agonizing reality of all.

But the real message was that the system, pre 9/11, was actually working, and all the security theater since then has just been funnelling public funds into private pockets, for no real gains in security.