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John O'Neil could 911 have been prevented? The commission doesn't seem to have addressed Mr. O'Neil in their questioning.
I'm not sure who Mr. O'Neil is, but there were enough people in the FBI (and CIA) with enough information that if it had been combined, it could have prevented 911. Part of what makes 911 such a trajedy is that failure.amp said:John O'Neil could 911 have been prevented? The commission doesn't seem to have addressed Mr. O'Neil in their questioning.
Thanks - I'll read it. The most prominent person I have heard of (again, I don't remember the name) is that woman who was head of a field office and after 911 wrote (and walked up) a letter to her chain of command - all the way up to Cogress - about the bureucratic failures of the FBI. She and two other women were Time's "people" of the year a couple of years ago - "the whistleblowers".amp said:Russ, you will find an interview and program on and about Mr. O'Neil here:http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/ titiled 'The Man Who Knew'
amp said:John O'Neil could 911 have been prevented? The commission doesn't seem to have addressed Mr. O'Neil in their questioning.
Tsunami said:I'm not sure what you mean by 'addressing Mr. O'Neil in their questioning'. Do you mean calling him before the commission and questioning him? I think that might be a problem... I believe his last position was Ass't Special Agent in Charge of Counterterrorism and National Security with the FBI at their New York Office, but it would be difficult to question him directly. He died on 9/11 in the Twin Towers. He had left the FBI in Aug 2001 (largely, it seems, because no one would listen to him about what he had found out about Al-Queda, etc.) and took a job as head of security of the WTC.
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