Could Wikileaks have prevented 9/11? LA Times

Could Wikileaks have prevented 9/11? LA Times

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There were a lot of us in the run-up to Sept. 11 who had seen warning signs that something devastating might be in the planning stages. But we worked for ossified bureaucracies incapable of acting quickly and decisively. Lately, the two of us have been wondering how things might have been different if there had been a quick, confidential way to get information out.

One of us, Coleen Rowley, was a special agent/legal counsel at the FBI's Minneapolis division and worked closely with those who arrested would-be terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui on an immigration violation less than a month before

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Tragic, but true - another quote from the article:

"Those same officials stonewalled Samit's supervisor, who pleaded with them in late August 2001 that he was "trying to keep someone from taking a plane and crashing into the World Trade Center."

The complicity in this terrible crime continues to pile up to inconceivable proportions.

I believe it is a real possibility that more than 3'000 lives could have been saved if Wikileaks had existed at the time.

I hope anyone who reads this article and who has info of a similar nature about crimes against humanity, will find the immense courage needed to leak the info and prevent further tragedy.



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reply to post by wcitizen


If we were ignoring our own trained professionals who were screaming at the top of their lungs that something was going on, I doubt that wikileaks would be taken any more seriously, sadly.

reply to post by Xcathdra


But there would have been clear proof of warnings that the administration ignored either out of arrogance or on purpose.
Either way, makes them accountable.

Interesting OP.
S and F.

Who is to know, one day a 9/11 whistle blower may use wiki!

good way of thinking.
Everyone now knows of wiki leaks, so all you need is 1 person, just 1 with some morals who happens to be involved unwillingly.

it could be as simple as a secretary delivering documents... hearing something...

reply to post by wcitizen


How do they know that the information they were recieving. Was'nt being fed to them by the Goverment anyways. Just so this would eventually come out and go towards proving they had nothing to do with it.

Just a thought.

Originally posted by atlasastro
reply to post by Xcathdra

 

But there would have been clear proof of warnings that the administration ignored either out of arrogance or on purpose.
Either way, makes them accountable.

Interesting OP.
S and F.

Who is to know, one day a 9/11 whistle blower may use wiki!

This has already been established by the field agent out of the Minneapolis division who was ignored. The Government had the information from its own and ignored it. Information coming from wikileaks, at least prior to 9/11 most likely would have been ignored as well.