How can anyone not have doubts when Pres. Bush froze in his chair when informed that "America is under attack," lied about how he first learned of the WTC attacks, has done all in his power to stymie 911 investigatiors, and planted the false impression that Iraq/Saddam was somehow involved.

And that's just a beginning. Hardly anyone in this country, it seems, is the least bit curious about how the indestructable black boxes didn't survive the WTC implosion, but Mohammed Atta's passport did. Or, where were the inteceptors on 911? Or, how did the alleged hijackers get past INS when their applications were riddled with errors?

Many Americans may not care, but Mindy Kleinberg does.

With regard to the 9/11 attacks, it has been said that the intelligence agencies have to be right 100% of the time and the terrorists only have to get lucky once. This explanation for the devastating attacks of September 11th, simple on its face, is wrong in its value. Because the 9/11 terrorists were not just lucky once: they were lucky over and over again...

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Why these aberrant trades were not discovered prior to 9/11? Who were the individuals who placed these trades? Have they been investigated? Who was responsible for monitoring these activities? Have those individuals been held responsible for their inaction?

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Had the INS or State Department followed the law, at least 15 of the hijackers would have been denied visas and would not have been in the United States on September 11th, 2001.

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On the morning of September 11th, the terrorists' luck commenced with airline and airport security. When the 19 hijackers went to purchase their tickets (with cash and/or credit cards) and to receive their boarding passes, nine were singled out and questioned through a screening process. Luckily for those nine terrorists, they passed the screening process and were allowed to continue on with their mission.

But, the terrorist's luck didn't end at the ticket counter; it also accompanied them through airport security, as well. Because how else would the hijackers get specifically contraband items such as box-cutters, pepper spray or, according to one FAA executive summary, a gun on those planes?

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Why was there a delay in the FAA notifying NORAD? Why was there a delay in NORAD scrambling fighter jets? How is this possible when NEADS was fully staffed with planes at the ready and monitoring our Northeast airspace?

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Is it luck that aberrant stock trades were not monitored? Is it luck when 15 visas are awarded based on incomplete forms? Is it luck when Airline Security screenings allow hijackers to board planes with box cutters and pepper spray? Is it luck when Emergency FAA and NORAD protocols are not followed? Is it luck when a national emergency is not reported to top government officials on a timely basis?

To me luck is something that happens once. When you have this repeated pattern of broken protocols, broken laws, broken communication, one cannot still call it luck.

Statement of Mindy Kleinberg to 9/11 Commission. Mindy's husband Alan was among the victims of Black Tuesday.

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Lost minds? I'd say we need to look closer to home to find them.

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