The September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States absolutely could have been prevented. Between 3 US agencies we had enough information to arrest the men planning the attack. In fact we had the name apartment complex and apartment numbers of where they were staying inside of the United States.
The CIA, FBI, and the Secret Service all had masses of information on these known terrorists years before the attacks. These men used their real names when applying for their passports and visas, drivers licenses, and insurance information. A couple of months before the attacks two terrorists involved in planning and executing the attacks were staying in California and each of them took a 6 hour class for flying lessons. This happened in many other states around the US, known terrorists (using their real names) were able to receive flying lessons inside our own country.
We (US government agencies) watched these know terrorist and AL-Qaeda affiliates migrate across the United states closer and closer to the capital.
As the attacks approached we listened and watched as these terrorists planned this mass murder. Literally, we listened to their conversations and knew about their plans for months in advance. So why didn't we do something? Why didn't we stop them? Why didn't we evacuate major target buildings? Why didn't we arrest them?
To answer these questions you must know more about the internal affairs of the 3 major government agencies... However, this can be very difficult, as they protect their information and affairs from the public eye. We have very little information about what they did have, but from that we were able to conclude that these agencies were in no form of communication with one another. In other words, each of these agencies knew about the impending attacks and each had specific information pertaining to the terrorists but none of the agencies were interacting.
It is my opinion that if our government is going to do what it's suppose to, in this case protect it's citizens, it need to be integrated.
All of the internal affairs of our government should be connected. They should all share information with one another. If this had been the case... As soon as there was a threat to our national security action would be taken to secure safety.
It is my understanding that we easily could have prevented these attacks. If only our government agencies hadn't been so wrapped up in themselves. As a result of the attacks the president at the time made it so that these agencies could listen in on American citizen's personal conversations in order to
Ensure Safety to the people. From this I gather that not only are the agencies of security not communicating with one another but
NONE of the government agencies are communicating. If the president and his decision makers had known of the real reason we were unable to stop the attacks I think they would have had a massively different response. Something more along the lines of governmental agency internal communication reform.
It saddens me deeply to come to the understanding these government agencies are ignoring the importance of human life and our national security. Many lives were lost in this tragedy. Lives that could have been kept.