{"id":2686,"date":"2002-05-16T16:58:56","date_gmt":"2002-05-16T21:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2686"},"modified":"2002-05-16T16:58:56","modified_gmt":"2002-05-16T21:58:56","slug":"damned_if_you_d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/05\/16\/damned_if_you_d.html","title":{"rendered":"Damned if you do …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is anyone else amused that the Bush Administration, which has been criticized for issuing overly-vague security warnings to the public since 9-11, is now being criticized (in many cases by the same people) for not <\/i>sending out an overly-vague public security warning<\/a> pre-9-11?<\/p>\n

I’m no friend of the Bushies, but I’ve yet to hear anything like a smoking gun to indicate that the Administration knew everything it needed to in order to connect the dots on the plane hijackings. While some “dots” have come to light, it’s worth remembering that they were hidden amongst hundreds, if not thousands, of other dots of intelligence info as to possible threats and opportunities. Let’s remember that Osama bin Laden and al Qa’eda were not (and are not) the only folks out there that needed watching.<\/p>\n

(I’ll also note that a lot of folks who, twenty or thirty years ago, were horrified at the prospect of the CIA and the FBI collaborating as some sort of Orwellian super-agency are now horrified that they weren’t working hand-in-glove to thwart this one specific conspiracy.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is anyone else amused that the Bush Administration, which has been criticized for issuing overly-vague security warnings to the public since 9-11, is now being criticized (in many cases by…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-estate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5319,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/07\/what_we_dont_kn.html","url_meta":{"origin":2686,"position":0},"title":"What we don’t know can hurt us","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Apr-04 3:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a long and fascinating article about something I touched on briefly yesterday, the tension between security and privacy. 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