CIA: "Pilots from Saudi Arabia with ties to Iran and Pakistan working with an islamic extremist group planning attack on US via planes."

Bush: "Yeah, ok, pal."

CIA: "The hydroelectric tubes in Iraq look vaguely like missile fuselage sort of if you squint"

Bush: "Get Tillerson and Cheney in here! WERE GOING TO MESS UP MESOPATAMIA!"

Really hate how much of history has been written, deliberately and otherwise, by the CIA.

Remember when Clinton was ordering strikes against Al Qaeda and the Republicans were like "stop distracting the public from your blowjob" and then he warned Bush about the impending threat during the transition and Bush ignored it?

We know. It’s been known for a while that the government had a threat about 9/11. It’s why then-President Bush was in Florida rather than Washington DC that morning. It was just suspected, but the threat was credible enough to move the president.

If they put all their resources into addressing every threat, they wouldn’t drop any of them. Steps were taken. They just didn’t take enough. But if they took enough steps with every threat, well, they don’t have the resources for that.

Most of us realise they did what they could with how credible the threat seemed at the time.