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Doubtful

S — 1/29/2004 3:44:14 AM (archived)

You wrote:

The USA gets warned every day by dozens of agents from around the world about many threats. 99.9% of these never materialize. It is impossible to know which to believe in advance.

Just wondering; do you have any authoritative source for this estimation?

I would think that our intelligence agencies would not long retain these "dozens of agents from around the world" if they were delivering daily warnings, 99.9% of which never materialize.

Would you believe... Maxwell Smart?

S

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A Big "Woops!".........we WERE warned about 9/11 - Lindy - 1/27/2004 9:00:37 PM
- Pre-911 warnings were numerous, specific and credible - S - 1/30/2004 4:38:20 AM
  - They Tried to Warn Us -- missing link, more - S - 1/30/2004 4:54:46 AM
- Don't forget they tried to blow up the world trade center in NY twice before (n/t) - Nick - 1/28/2004 1:06:02 AM
- Lindy... - Tom Brosz - 1/27/2004 9:58:19 PM
  - Do you have a good link on Salman Pak? (n/t) - RobVG - 1/28/2004 12:50:23 AM
    - re: links on Salman Pak - Tom Brosz - 1/28/2004 1:30:39 AM
      - Thank you. - RobVG - 1/28/2004 3:13:17 AM
        
        I would say what I have already said - Davin L. - 1/28/2004 6:19:19 PM
        
        Just checking. - RobVG - 1/29/2004 3:02:08 AM
        
        re: Just checking. - Davin L. - 1/29/2004 5:12:56 AM
        
        Davin....... - Lindy - 1/31/2004 2:00:18 AM
        
        re: Davin....... - Davin L. - 1/31/2004 7:07:00 AM
        
        Went over this territory with Davin a long time ago. This info has been around for months. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 1/28/2004 4:24:02 AM
- Yes! Just in Time for Howard Dean to come on strong in New Hampshire. - Ima Liberal - 1/27/2004 9:19:58 PM
- Lindy asked: "Could it be they knew about it, but were waiting for it to happen anyway so they would have a good reason to invade Afganistan and Iraq and roll out the Patriot Act and start Homeland D… - David F Mayer - 1/27/2004 9:10:50 PM
  - Doubtful - S - 1/29/2004 3:44:14 AM
  - "Who to believe?" - Lindy - 1/28/2004 2:51:46 AM

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