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I'm a bit confused about what part of this is news? I was under the impression that the generally accepted story for why the US intelligence agencies failed to stop 9/11 was that they saw each other as adversaries and actively concealed information from each other. We now know some more details about how they fucked up, but none of it's very surprising?

>Canestraro’s affidavit outlines a sequence of events that, if true, suggest a botched and illegal domestic CIA operation was at the heart of the intelligence failure that enabled the attacks. More than that, it suggests there was a concerted cover-up of the grave blunder after the fact by both the CIA and the George W. Bush administration.

Looks like the news is evidence of lies to public and extent of collaboration to cover it up

edit: wow this story got insta-nuked from HN

The mainstream media also doesn't care that the WMDs were an intentional lie.

The list goes on and on...

If you're expecting revelations and journalism from the MSM then you're drinking too much Kool Aid.

There doesn't need to be a formal conspiracy when interests converge.

- Someone smarter than me