A few relevant examples of hundreds of unanswered questions and smoking guns, none of which individually proves anything beyond perhaps "incompetence" or systemic "failures".  In other words, government needs more money and power. But collectively, does this prove anything?

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Examples of Prior Knowledge

• The cancellations of travel plans by Pentagon officials
• The meeting with billionaire Warren Buffett on September 11th at Offutt Air Force Base that took World Trade Center CEOs out of harm's way
• The warning received by San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown the night before the attack
• Scotland Yard's grounding of Salman Rushdie on September 11th
• Ariel Sharon's cancellation of his plans to address to Israeli support groups in New York City on September 11th
• The warning recieved by employees of Odigo early on the morning of the attack
• The arrest -- and resease within days -- of a group of Israelis filming the attack from Jersey City and celebrating
• First, the information that this author has come by would suggest that our intelligence community DID, in fact, do their job.
• Second, the information collected by this author would also suggest that someone would rather that YOU believe otherwise!     Al Colombo is a trade journalist and book author in electronic security industry.
  

FBI's Radical Fundamentalist Unit in Washington D.C. - by Globalresearch

...  Dave Frasca "threw up roadblocks and undermined Minneapolis' ...  It is of course impossible to believe that Dave Frasca on his own, is just sitting on this information and not doing anything with it, unless ordered to do so.  ...unnamed higher ups .. actually chastised the Minneapolis agents ... for attempting an end-run around Frasca ... Frasca "undercut" the search warrant application  ... made damaging changes to the text ...
Even after the World Trade Center was hit, Agent Rowley was warned to "do nothing" .  ...why would he deliberately sabotage the case ... jokes were made that FBI Headquarters personnel were "spies" or "moles" who were actually "working for Osama Bin Laden."

Apparently no one mentioned that it could be the other way around i.e., Bin Laden working for the CIA/FBI.

The notion that Bush cabinet members were urging the CIA/FBI chiefs to keep a lit on local FBI investigative actions to arrest or curtail terrorist plots was, at the time, an unthinkable thought. That after all, would not be a joke. It would be one of the most murderous, diabolical cover up committed against American citizens by an American President and cabinet.

BUT NOT WITHOUT PRECEDENT: See Operation Northwoods

Sibel Edmunds, who has more Justice Dept. gag orders on her than anyone in US history

Robert Wright and other military officials have briefly gone public about obstruction, but were censored and punished.

Permanent War: The Stakes For Working People  by Ralph Schoenman

Before Sept 11, 2001: Congressman Says US Intelligence Not Interested in Informant Who Could Pinpoint bin Laden's Location
Rohrabacher concludes, “that our intelligence services knew about the location of bin Laden several times but were not permitted to attack him ... because of decisions made by people higher up.” [Speech to the House of Representatives, 9/17/01]

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher in Afghanistan in 1988.
"Dana Rohrabacher says the Taliban are devout traditionalists—not terrorists or revolutionaries. He believes a Taliban takeover [of Afghanistan] would be a positive development."

With no shame, Dana publicly blamed Clinton for being "too soft" on the Taliban. (Slick Willy wasn't "too soft", he was a collaborator, just like Bush.)

Rohrabacher’s post-Sept. 11 finger-pointing was a fraud designed to distract attention from his own ongoing meddling in the foreign-policy nightmare. Federal documents reviewed by the Weekly show that Rohrabacher maintained a cordial, behind-the-scenes relationship with Osama bin Laden’s associates in the Middle East—even while he mouthed his most severe anti-Taliban comments at public forums across the U.S.

Not to defend Clinton, the Al-Qaeda collaborator.  THE FACT OF ROHRABACHER blaming Clinton for working with the Taliban while he himself was negotiating clandestine oil pipeline deals with the Taliban, coupled with the point that one Taliban official actually warned the US in July, and of the CIA and Pentagon working with actually Al-Qaida elements under both parties  I doubt Clinton was really much upset about being "smeared".  But the next note just adds to the intrigue. 

Plenty of other people knew in advance about 9-11 brewing. What was Dana's point about his "omen", besides self-aggrandizement?

September 9, 2001: Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R), who has long experience in Afghanistan and even fought with the mujaheddin there, later claims he immediately saw the (CIA hit) assassination of Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud (September 9, 2001) as a sign that "something terrible was about to happen." He is only able to make an appointment to meet with top White House and National Security Council officials for 2:30 PM on 9/11, when it's too late.

September 10, 2001 (B): An Army School of Advanced Military Studies issues a report written by elite US army officers, which is made public just prior to 9/11. The report gives the following description for the Mossad: "Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has capability to target US forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act." [Washington Times, 9/10/01] After 9/11 and revelations of a large Mossad spy ring operating mysteriously in the US, some suggest that the Mossad did in fact do just that on 9/11.

September 10, 2001 (C): In a speech to the Department of Defense, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld announces that the Department of Defense "cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions." CBS later calculates that 25% of the yearly defense budget is unaccounted for, and quotes a long-time defense budget analyst: "[Their] numbers are pie in the sky. The books are cooked routinely year after year." Coverage of this rather shocking story is nearly nonexistent given the events of the next day. [Department of Defense speech, 9/10/01, CBS, 1/29/02]

September 10, 2001 (E): Attorney General Ashcroft rejects a proposed $58 million increase in financing for the bureau's counter-terrorism programs. On the same day, he sends a request for budget increases to the White House. It covers 68 programs, but none of them relate to counter-terrorism. He also sends a memorandum to his heads of departments, stating his seven priorities - none of them relating to counter-terrorism. This is more than a little strange, since Ashcroft stopped flying public airplanes in July due to terrorist threats (see July 26, 2001) and he told a Senate committee in May that counter-terrorism was his "highest priority." [New York Times, 6/1/02, Guardian, 5/21/02] Was he starving current departments for funds, with an eye to creating a new Homeland Security Department?

September 10, 2001 (G): A sixth-grade student of Middle Eastern descent in Jersey City, New Jersey, says something that alarms his teacher at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School. "Essentially, he warned her to stay away from lower Manhattan because something bad was going to happen," says Sgt. Edgar Martinez, deputy director of police services for the Jersey City Police Department. [Insight, 9/10/02] Note that others with possible 9/11 foreknowledge also lived in Jersey City (see June 12, 2001).

September 10, 2001 (L): At least two messages in Arabic are intercepted by the NSA. One states "The match is about to begin" (bin Laden apparently uses football metaphors in many messages) and the other states "Tomorrow is zero hour." Later reports [Reuters, 9/9/02] translate the first message as "The match begins tomorrow." They were sent between someone in Saudi Arabia and someone in Afghanistan.

September 10, 2001 (O): There is a possibility that FEMA's National Urban Search and Rescue Team arrived in New York the night before the attacks. FEMA member Tom Kennedy says in a CBS interview on September 13: "We're currently one of the first teams that was deployed to support the City of New York in this disaster. We arrived on late Monday night [September 10] and went right into action on Tuesday morning [September 11]." FEMA officials said Kennedy misstated his team's arrival date. [CBS, 9/13/01, link is to an audio file] The Boston Herald later says Kennedy's name is actually Tom Kenney, and his wife claims he merely confused the dates. [Boston Herald, 9/5/02] Even if true, perhaps they had other reasons to be in New York that day? When did FEMA in fact go into action?

September 10, 2001 (P): In a bar in Daytona Beach, Florida the night before the 9/11 attacks, three men make anti-American sentiments and talk of impending bloodshed. One says, "Wait 'til tomorrow. America is going to see bloodshed." These were not any of the hijackers, since they had all left Florida by this time. [MSNBC, 9/23/01, AP, 9/14/01] FBI Director Mueller later claims "To this day we have found no one in the United States except the actual hijackers who knew of the plot" (see June 18, 2002), but what of these three?

Before September 11, 2001 (B): A number of the hijackers appeared to drink alcohol heavily in bars and watch strip shows - strange behavior for Muslim radicals. On September 10, three terrorists spend $200 to $300 apiece on lap dances and drinks in the Pink Pony, a Daytona Beach, Florida strip club. While the hijackers had left Florida by this time, Atta is reported to have visited the same strip club, and these men appear to have had foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks.
"Nobody ever saw them at mosques, but they liked the go-go clubs."

September 11, 2001: Warren Buffett, possibly the second richest man on Earth [Salon, 8/31/99], schedules a morning charity event inside Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. A number of CEOs who would otherwise have been in the WTC attend. Attendees had just arrived when the first WTC attack occurs. This base is the center of the nation's military defenses, and the same base that Bush will fly to later in the day. The timing, probable attendance, and location of the meeting is curious, to say the least, as is the total lack of any mention of the meeting anywhere, except for one aside by a business leader (Anne Tatlock, CEO and President of Fiduciary and Franklin) explaining why she survived the WTC attack.