Lizard people? My, you'll grasp at any diversion to avoid the issue, won't you?

As I pointed out above, there are numerous indications in the public record that the dangers posed by hijacked airliners were well recognized, your denials notwithstanding, but the subject of my post, to remind you, is the deal reached with the white house for committee access to the president's daily intelligence briefing so that the committee may find out what was known outside the public record, ie, in classified intelligence.

But just for the record, here's a representative sampling of what a quick Google search turned up concerning suicide jetliners:

...during the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta. Black Hawk helicopters and US Customs Service jets were deployed to intercept suspicious aircraft in the skies over the Olympic venues. Agents monitored crop-duster flights within hundreds of miles of downtown Atlanta. Law enforcement agents also fanned out to regional airports throughout northern Georgia “to make sure nobody hijacked a small aircraft and tried to attack one of the venues,” said Woody Johnson, the FBI agent in charge of the Atlanta office at the time. From July 6 through the end of the Games on August 11, the FAA banned all aviation within a one-mile radius of the Olympic Village that housed the athletes. It also ordered aircraft to stay at least three miles away from other sites beginning three hours before each event until three hours after each event ended.

(Source: Los Angeles Times, November 17, 2001, “Suicide Flights and Crop Dusters Considered Threats at ’96 Olympics,” by Mark Fineman and Judy Pasternak)

In the run-up to the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, there was active consideration of the danger of “a fully loaded, fuelled airliner crashing into the opening ceremony before a worldwide television audience,” according to former Sydney police superintendent Paul McKinnon. Osama bin Laden was considered the number one threat, he said. IOC officials said plane-crash catastrophes have been incorporated into security planning for every Olympics since 1972. “That was our nightmare scenario,” one IOC official said. There were extensive IOC discussions with the FBI during 2001 in the course of the security planning for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

(Source: Sydney Morning Herald, September 20, 2001, “Jet crash on stadium was Olympics nightmare,” by Jacquelin Magnay

"Genoa's Bizarre Fortress Summit"
July 23, 2001

...And the CIA station chief in Italy warned the Italian secret services that al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden's terrorist group, might be planning a suicide attack on the summit. Italy took security precautions seriously and placed Spada surface-to-air missiles at strategic locations around Genoa in the event of a terrorist air attack....

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Kimmel sees the same patterns surrounding the Bush administration's handling of 9/11. Rather than accepting key officials' protests that the suicide jetliners caught everyone flatfooted, the 59-year-old, former counterintelligence expert offers copious evidence to the contrary. For example, this September 1999 CIA National Intelligence Council Study excerpt: "Suicide bomber(s) belonging to al-Qaida's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives (C-4 and Semtex) into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the CIA, or the White House."

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(All emphasis mine)

Deny, distract, and dissemble all you want, the record is clear - the threat from hijacked suicide jetliners was well-known, and the warnings were specific.

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