Was 9/11 Preventable?

Outside they always said that [new safety measures] aren't necessary, that we haven't had a major domestic terrorist attack and, therefore, we don't need these levels of security. In the very last meeting I had as inspector general with the FAA on July 3, 1996, they said that the cost of Pan Am 103 was $3 billion and if we had to make airports completely safe at that time they guessed-and they probably absolutely guessed-that it would cost $10 billion. They figured we might have another Pan Am 103, but it still wasn't worth the cost of the heightened levels of security. In fact, they made a flippant comment. The security chief at that meeting said, "Look, if we made airports completely safe they'd just go bomb other targets like Amtrak." I was so stunned by that (www.newsweek.com).

The forgoing except is from an article for Newsweek by Suzanne Smalley on 9/27/01. This article was done around two weeks after September 11th, 2001, attacks, and was a bit difficult to find on the internet for some reason. It was an interview with former FAA inspector general, Mary Schiavo. The impression I got after reading was that the government, five years before the attacks, was more concerned about money than about lives. Read the full article at the link below and decide for yourself, it should be an eye-opening experience if anything, but don't forget to come back and finish reading this post.

"Scary Mary"

Of course, these are the same type of people, or at least the same personality types (SWAMP), who wanted us to believe they wanted to save lives during Covid 2019. I suppose the question about the government wanting to save lives is questionable sometimes.

We know about United Airlines Flight 93, and what some of the passengers on it did so bravely. When the government doesn't seem to take their job seriously, I suppose that people must do the job themselves. In the case of Flight 93, we know they ended up saving the government, instead of the other way around.

To simply conclude without taking more of everyone’s valuable time, was 9/11 preventable? YES!  But one can believe whatever one wants to believe.

 

 

Reference:

https://www.newsweek.com/scary-mary-tells-it-it-151877