Geesh, unclear sentence writers baffle me...

Joining the dots of ineptitude
Few Americans believe they have been told the truth about 9/11, but a new book suggests the conspiracy only began after the event.
Rory O'Connor November 16, 2006

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The media and the government's national security apparatus may have failed to "connect the dots" but Peter Lance certainly has in Triple Cross.

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/rory_oconnor/2006/11/the_911_conspiracy_of_incompet.html


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The 9/11 Conspiracy of Incompetence

The media and the government’s national security apparatus may have failed to “connect the dots,” but Peter Lance certainly has in Triple Cross.

Does that mean Peter Lance has failed to connect the dots, no may have about it?

Or does that mean Peter Lance has connected the dots in Triple Cross?

In the context of the entire piece, I'm baffled still.

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Numerous polls indicate that few Americans now believe they have been told the truth about 9/11. According to one conducted recently for the New York Times and CBS News, more than eighty percent think the Administration is either ?mostly lying? or at least “hiding something.” Before it becomes too late, and the case too cold, is it still possible to determine what happened on 9/11—and why? Did some version of the MIHOP or LIHOP conspiracy theories actually take place? Or were our leaders and their minions in the intelligence community simply so incompetent that they missed dozens if not hundreds of pre-attack “threat assessments,” warnings, signs and indications that, as the notorious PDB of August 6, 2001 bluntly informed the president, Osama Bin Laden was “Determined to Strike in US?” If so, did they then conspire to cover up their “criminally negligent” incompetence?

Count author Peter Lance, an Emmy-winning former reporter and producer for ABC News, among those who believe in the “9/11 Incompetence Conspiracy Theory.” Lance’s new book, Triple Cross, tells the amazing story of an al-Qaeda superspy named Ali Mohamed. As Lance writes, “In the annals of espionage, few men have moved in and out of the deep black world between the hunters and the hunted with as much audacity as Ali Mohamed.”

http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2006/11/04/the-911-conspiracy-of-incompetence/

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Given the many mistakes and apparent government deception obvious from even a cursory examination of the Ali Mohamed case, along with related miscues involving the Central Intelligence Agency (see The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright, and State of Denial by Bob Woodward,) the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and high officials at Special Operations Command, Central Command, and yes, the White House. It’s no wonder that conspiracists see evidence—if not outright proof—for their “loose change” theories of what happened on 9/11. But in writing his brilliantly researched, highly detailed, exhaustive (and at nearly 500 pages, exhausting!) account of how Osama bin Laden’s master spy “triple crossed” the CIA, the Green Berets and the FBI, Lance has actually done the 9/11 truth movement a distinct service. The media and the government’s national security apparatus may have failed to “connect the dots,” but Peter Lance certainly has in Triple Cross.

Was there a government conspiracy behind the attacks of 9/11? Or did the true conspiracy begin only after the attacks, in a desperate but thus far successful attempt to avoid scandal and obscure the truth that our intelligence agencies had suppressed critical intelligence and bungled their jobs? Whatever your faith and belief, the Ali Mohamed story seems key to understanding the full truth of 9/11. “Could the attacks have been prevented?” Lance asks. “If so, who in our government should be blamed for the failure?” And finally, and most importantly, “have our intelligence agencies undergone sufficient reform to prevent future assaults on America?”

http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2006/11/04/the-911-conspiracy-of-incompetence/

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/rory_oconnor/2006/11/the_911_conspiracy_of_incompet.html