Timeline for Did the Bush administration or their successors ever comment on the alleged Taliban warning about 9/11?
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| Nov 7, 2017 at 5:55 | vote | accept | NSNoob | ||
| Oct 31, 2017 at 2:32 | answer | added | user27618 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 27, 2017 at 15:33 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackHistory/status/923935628022214656 | ||
| Oct 27, 2017 at 14:26 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | @Ghotir - Quite. I have a copy of the 911 report, and it goes into a lot of these. One of the takeaways was that they had enough intel, but the stovepiping of the various intel agencies hampered reporting, and hampered the ability of any one analyst to have the capacity to put all the pieces together. This is why the Dept. of Homeland Security was created. | |
| Oct 27, 2017 at 9:49 | comment | added | NSNoob | @corsiKa I'd also like to clarify that by "he", I mean Mr. Muttawakil, not his aide. Mr. Muttawakil was in US custody, not the aide. You know, just clarifying because the wording was kinda ambiguous and your comments make me think it mislead you into thinking that the aide was in custody. | |
| Oct 26, 2017 at 15:48 | comment | added | corsiKa | I'd like to clarify my previous statement to make it clear there is nothing funny about torture. | |
| Oct 26, 2017 at 15:36 | comment | added | corsiKa | @NSNoob Actually, funny thing about torture, it makes people say anything just to make the torture stop. | |
| Oct 26, 2017 at 14:56 | comment | added | NSNoob | @corsiKa That is of course assuming there was a warning in the first place. Americans haven't officially confirmed it AFAIK (Which is what I am looking for, the confirmation or lack thereof in form of some official comment or statement). It is entirely possible that the aide of Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil cooked the entire thing up so that he could get an easier time in US captivity (But idk why they would be lying, Since the man was already in US custody, if he did convey a warning, US could easily verify it internally, which makes the lie illogical) | |
| Oct 26, 2017 at 14:32 | comment | added | corsiKa | My understanding is they receive thousands of threats every day and it's hard to tell the signal from the noise. Or at least, that's my understanding of what I believe they would prefer my understanding be ... puts on tin foil hat | |
| Oct 26, 2017 at 14:27 | comment | added | NSNoob | @Ghotir Oh I completely agree, this is something which all intelligence agencies have in common. I am just curious if some notable figure commented on that "Okay yeah there was this tip off from the Taliban but we didn't take the seriously". Primarily it is because I am skeptical about the whole "Warning". That's what the question is about, not whether or not CIA did the right thing. | |
| Oct 26, 2017 at 14:08 | comment | added | Ghotir | "... a lot of such reports being received by intel sources." My understanding is that there are a staggering number of "tells" on any given day; the trick as an intelligence agency is to figure out which ones are important, and what they really mean. There's an old joke: when the CIA does it's job right, nobody knows; when they do their job wrong, everybody knows. I wonder how much weight the intelligence agencies gave the warning - and whether, without the benefit of hindsight - there was any other realistic option. | |
| Oct 26, 2017 at 13:11 | history | edited | NSNoob | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 26, 2017 at 13:06 | history | asked | NSNoob | CC BY-SA 3.0 |