“We now know that plenty of red flags..."

“We now know that plenty of red flags that should have alerted officials to the hijackers’ plot were ignored.  That was a matter of government ineptness, not a lack of surveillance power.  Our officials had the evidence.  They simply failed to act on it.  And they then turned around and exploited their own failure as an excuse to crack down on the American people, demanding new powers that would have done nothing to prevent 9/11.  Only government could get away with such a transparent sham.” -Page 115 of The Revolution, A Manifesto