In 2002, FBI agent Coleen Rowley wrote to FBI director Robert Mueller describing her experience working with Minneapolis FBI agents tracking suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui prior to the attacks..^[33] She describes how FBI HQ personnel in Washington, D.C. had mishandled and failed to take action on information provided by the Minneapolis Field Office, and had failed to issue a warrant to search Moussaui's computer despite having probable cause.^[34] Rowley goes on to describe her superior, Agent Marion "Spike" Bowman, as having ?consistently, almost deliberately thwarted the Minneapolis FBI agents' efforts? to obtain the search warrant. Senator Chuck Grassley later wrote that ?If the application for the FISA warrant had gone forward, agents would have found information in Moussaoui's belongings that linked him ... to a major financier of the hijacking plot". Rowley was credited as a whistleblower and jointly awarded the TIME Magazine "Person of the Year" for 2002. Her testimony to the 9/11 Commission was omitted from their final report.

FBI agent and Al-Qaeda expert John P. O'Neill warned of an Al-Qaeda threat to the United States in 2000. He retired from his position in mid 2001, citing repeated blocking of his investigations of Al Qaeda by FBI officials. After his retirement from the FBI, the World Trade Center hired him as its chief of security. He started work on September 11, 2001; 9/11 rescue workers found his body in a staircase inside the south tower rubble.^[35]

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In 2002, FBI agent Coleen Rowley wrote to FBI director Robert Mueller describing her experience working with Minneapolis FBI agents tracking suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui prior to the attacks..^[33] She describes how FBI HQ personnel in Washington, D.C. had mishandled and failed to take action on information provided by the Minneapolis Field Office, and had failed to issue a warrant to search Moussaui's computer despite having probable cause.^[34] Rowley goes on to describe her superior, Agent Marion "Spike" Bowman, as having ?consistently, almost deliberately thwarted the Minneapolis FBI agents' efforts? to obtain the search warrant. Senator Chuck Grassley later wrote that ?If the application for the FISA warrant had gone forward, agents would have found information in Moussaoui's belo

I refuse to allow perception to blind me from reality. I understand how some people think they are supporting a worthwhile cause by indulging the opinions of people like Richard Clarke and the aforementioned whistleblower, however their opinons do not hold up to intense scrutiny.

1. Responsible leaders make phone calls to likeminded coworkers/colleagues and the appropriate tactical law enforcement contingents.

2. Responsible leaders do not put the burden of prevention and determent on the massive and systemic process of world class intelligence agencies (time consuming).

3. Responsible leaders do not use tragedies to promote their personal vanities (fame and wealth at the expense of their institution?s reputation).

*Additionally, it is clear that Richard Clarke and the aforementioned whistleblower have attempted no viable or successful means of deterrence concerning Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network. This is surprising given the celebrity and widespread influence that both of these experts have.