From your link. "Hindsight bias, also known as the knew-it-all-along effect or creeping determinism, is the inclination, after an event has occurred, to see the event as having been predictable, despite there having been little or no objective basis for predicting it."
But in this case there was a massive objective basis for predicting it. The CIA knew full well the attacks on 9/11 were coming in the summer of 2001.
Let me repeat my prior post.
According to Bob Woodward’s book, “State of Denial”, Tenet, Black, and Blee went to the White House on July 10, 2001 to tell Rice, Hadley and Clarke that a huge al Qaeda terrorist attack as just about to take place likely inside of the US that would kill thousands of Americans. Then on July 13, 2001 and July 23, 2001, these very same mangers refused to give their spy inside of the FBI HQ, and former Deputy Chief of the Bin Laden CIA station, Tom Wilshire, permission to give the information that Mihdhar and Hazmi had taken part in the planning of the Cole bombing to the FBI criminal Cole bombing investigators, or to tell these investigators that the people at the Kuala Lumpur al Qaeda planning meeting who had taken part in the planning of the Cole bombing were also likely connected to the warnings of a huge al Qaeda terrorist attack about to take place inside of the US. When these CIA managers refused Wilshire’s request to pass this information to the FBI Cole bombing investigators, they knew full well that without this information the FBI criminal investigators on the Cole bombing would never have the “probable cause” they needed to start a criminal investigation for Mihdhar and Hazmi. Since the CIA already knew that these two al Qaeda terrorists were inside of the US on August 22, 2001, they also knew by hiding the fact that Mihdhar and Hazmi had taken part in the planning of the Cole bombing would allow this huge al Qaeda terrorist attack to take place killing thousands of Americans,
But it gets worse!
Defense Exhibit 939 describes FBI Agent Margaret Gillespie, working at the CIA bin Laden unit being told by the INS on August 21, 2001, that both Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi were inside of the US. She took this information to Deputy Chief of the FBI ITOS unit, Tom Wilshire, and FBI IOS Agent Dina Corsi on August 22, 2001, and then back to the CIA bin Laden unit after meeting with Wilshire and Corsi.
For six days Wilshire, Corsi, Rod Middleton, Corsi's boss, FBI HQ and the CIA keep this horrific information secret from the FBI Cole bombing investigators, but on August 28, 2001, an EC written by Corsi to start an intelligence investigation for Mihdhar and Hazmi, was sent to the FBI New York field office This EC was sent to FBI Agent Steve Bongardt, by FBI Intelligence supervisor John Liguori when Liguori thought the NSA information in this EC connected Mihdhar and Hazmi to the Cole bombing.
Bongardt immediately called Corsi to request the investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi be given to him and his team before these al Qaeda terrorists had time to carry out some horrific attack inside of the US. But Corsi told Bongardt that since the information in her EC that came from the NSA, it could not be legally given to FBI criminal investigators without permission from the NSA general counsel. But what was kept secret from Bongardt, was the fact that the NSA had already approved a request to allow Corsi to pass this information to him and the other criminal investigators in New York on August 27, 2001, the day before she tells Bongardt she does not have this permission. In fact since the NSA had connected both Mihdhar and Hazmi to the east African al Qaeda terrorists attacks, the FBI criminal investigators already had the legal authority to search for these two al Qaeda terrorists, all of this information is per the DOJ IG report.
Bongardt told Corsi, that he believed the NSA restrictions were only relevant if the information had been obtained using a FISA warrant, and since he did not see how the NSA information in her EC required a FISA warrant, he asked her to consult with the FBI attorneys in the NSLU to see if he could start an investigation for Mihdhar and Hazmi.
On August 29, 2001, Corsi called Bongardt and told him the attorney she contacted had ruled he could have no connection to any investigation for Mihdhar and Hazmi. But page 538, footnote 81 in the 9/11 Commission report states that Sherri S, aka Sheri Sabol told Dina C. aka Dina Corsi, that since the NSA information had no connection to any FISA warrant, Bongardt could take part in any investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi that he wanted.
Per DE 682, Corsi sent email to Steve Bongardt on August 29, 2001, stating that “if at such time as evidence is developed of a substantial Federal crime, (by Mihdhar and Hazmi) that information will be passed over the wall per the proper procedures for a follow up criminal investigation". But the horror story of all horror stories is that Corsi told DOJ IG investigators on August 22, 2001, 6 days before she shut down Bongardt’s investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi, she already had the photo of Walid bin Attash, mastermind of the Cole bombing, a photo she had obtained from the CIA, the very photo taken of him at Kuala Lumpur, and knew this was the proof that both Mihdhar and Hazmi, who she, Wishire, Rod Middleton, all knew in May 2001 had also been at that same meeting, had taken part in the planning the Cole bombing, clearly a “substantial Federal crime”, according to page 301 of the DOJ IG report.
Why FBI Agents at FBI HQ would criminally sabotaged the only criminal investigation at the FBI of Mihdhar and Hazmi when they all knew this allow a massive al Qaeda terrorist attack to take place inside of the US killing thousands of Americans has never been explained. Or why the CIA ordered their former Deputy Chief of the CIA bin Laden unit, Tom Wilshire, who had blocked Doug Millers cable on Khalid al-Mihdhar back to the FBI on January 5, 2001, to effectively sabotage any criminal investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi by the FBI Cole bombing investigators, orders which he successfully carried out, has also never been explained.
Why FBI Agents at FBI HQ would criminally sabotage the only criminal investigation at the FBI of Mihdhar and Hazmi when they all knew this allow a massive al Qaeda terrorist attack to take place inside of the US killing thousands of Americans has never been explained. Or why the CIA ordered their former Deputy Chief of the CIA bin Laden unit, Tom Wilshire, who had blocked Doug Millers cable on Khalid al-Mihdhar back to the FBI on January 5, 2001, to effectively sabotage any criminal investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi by the FBI Cole bombing investigators, orders which he successfully carried out, when they clearly knew thier orders would allow a huge al Qaeda terroroist attack to take place inside of the US, has also never been explained.
While all of this information is now in the public domain, why this information has been hidden by the main stream media from American public even to this day has also never been explained. Jeff Stein's article in Newsweek is the first time even a hint of this information has appeared in the main stream media.
