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Let me start by saying that that I came into reading the August 6th, 2001 report expecting to find the evidence that I found and the proof that I needed to justify in my own opinion that our country should have been more prepared for the attacks.

Below is the paragraph that sums it all up for me:

“Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.”

This paragraph sums up a few things for me..

1) The president knew before hand that there were terrorist plots to hijack planes.
2) The president knew the terrorists were planning to use the plains as bombs in New York. Maybe they got the buildings wrong, but the location and use was the same.

With that being said, I can also say though that I completely understand why we weren’t prepared. Nobody thought something like this could have happened. Try to remember back before September 11th, 2001 and ask yourself if you honestly believed that hijackers would cause as much death and destruction as they did on September 11th. Even though the president and FBI and CIA knew of plans to use planes as firebombs, the American public did not. I would have figured worst case scenario, a plane or two gets hijacked and they force them to fly to Afghanistan and hold everyone hostage until their demands are met or the plane was blown out of the sky. The idea of a plane as a bomb wasn’t even an option at the time.

With that in mind, I can see why the report may have been overlooked, and may have been overlooked by many a president. Being that a threat was known to exist that would endanger American