That's where you get into truther territory because if you don't interpret the attacks as an attack on the US and instead as Saudis and Americans collaborating towards shared interest, the motives are explained by both sides becoming much wealthier in the aftermath of 9/11.
Collaboration, probably not, but there was definitely existing knowledge of the attackers and they were under surveillance for a long ass time.
Lots of people say that the CIA and FBI were just incompetent and/or underfunded (I'll give you incompetent), but that's a hugely convenient fuckup for a lot of people involved, like Cheney and Bush that were looking for a casus beli and they just happened to get the perfect one in the first year of their rule.
That's where you get into truther territory because if you don't interpret the attacks as an attack on the US and instead as Saudis and Americans collaborating towards shared interest, the motives are explained by both sides becoming much wealthier in the aftermath of 9/11.
Collaboration, probably not, but there was definitely existing knowledge of the attackers and they were under surveillance for a long ass time.
Lots of people say that the CIA and FBI were just incompetent and/or underfunded (I'll give you incompetent), but that's a hugely convenient fuckup for a lot of people involved, like Cheney and Bush that were looking for a casus beli and they just happened to get the perfect one in the first year of their rule.