First, you assume *they* would be capable of attacking again even if we were just as clueless the 2nd time around. Second, it's safe to say that nobody is making that sort of mistake again, hence the uncovering of other plots.
For the same reason we don't have to worry about planes being taken over again (and not because of the TSA), I don't think we have to worry about large scale plots. We got our hands slapped and are paying better attention. Maybe too much considering the attacks on our liberty that have followed 9/11.
Chris
I
assume nothing. George Armstrong Custer would appreciate your thinking.
Why assume they won't try
both large and small scale attacks?
The one thing they have going for them is they think differently in terms of time. We wait five years and....nothing.
They're perfectly happy seeing things happen on a much longer time scale.
I'm sure that there has been some infiltration of FBI and other agencies....I am saying I think that IMHO this article is blowing it all out of proportion.
Keep in mind one thing; when an agency finds a "mole," it doesn't necessarily terminate them, arrest them, or otherwise remove them. In some cases they are kept in place and used to feed information to the enemy which we
WANT them to have ~~
disinformation, actually. It's a great way to mislead an enemy.
This is what could be happening in some cases (though I'm sure probably not all), and thus trying to evaluate what is really happening from the outside can be ... problematic.