9/11: No Conspiracy Theories Needed

 

9/11: No Conspiracy Theories Needed

Peter Schultz

 

                  Just some facts.

 

-              The CIA was not set-up to stop attacks. It was set-up to attack or to facilitate attacks. Hence, their intelligence wasn’t “operationalized” to stop the 9/11 attacks because operationalization meant attacking. Identifying potential terrorists was the agents’ job if no attack was to occur.  

 

-              The FBI was set-up to catch criminals and arrest them so they could be tried and perhaps convicted in courts of law. It had and has legal responsibilities so “operationalizing” means creating “cases” that may be tried in courts. It was not set-up to stop attacks.

 

-              Sharing implies a “community” exists, but there was no “intelligence community” because there were only “intelligence bureaucracies.” Bureaucracies are not and do not strive to be parts of communities. Bureaucrats do not strive to be communal. That is not how they think or behave.

 

Add these facts up and it is possible to explain why the 9/11 attacks were not thwarted. No conspiracy theories needed. Which doesn’t’ mean that conspiratorial behavior didn’t occur.