Warbloggin'

Some thoughts occurred to me while I was watching the cable news outlets this evening.

First of all, why isn't anyone questioning the NSA about intelligence failures on 9/11? It was always my impression that the NSA's mission was to coordinate the intelligence assets of the US government. It turns out this is not correct, that the mission of the NSA is to secure the information infrastructure of the USA. Even so, shouldn't there be some NSA role in identifying terrorist threats to the USA?

The other thing, that seems apparent to dumb ol' me, is that Al Qaeda has shown dogged persistence in pursuing the WTC as a target. It took more than 8 years after the February 26, 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center for the second, successful attack. From what I recall of reports after 9/11, it seems that the White House and Capitol Building may have been the original targets of American Flight 77 (Pentagon crash) and United Flight 93 (PA crash). If this is a possibility, don't we need to take a very long view of potential threats to the White House and Capitol? Why isn't this being reported in the media? Is it in the blogs?
posted by Ed at 11:58 PM