Ifwecouldjust.......
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I am currently reading a book by Simon reeve the investigative journalist and now does programmes for the BBC. he wrote a book after the first World Trade bombing alerting everyone to the problems of Al Queda and the fact that the World trade would be attacked again. No one listened and the book bombed...…. until of course it happened.
How did the worlds so called finest intelligence mob miss it but he didn't ?
Slightly off topic but relevant i suppose..... Its been mooted that it's the same reason that we couldn't crack the enigma machine in WW2 until the right team was established by Denniston. The CIA and intelligence services are predominantly white / male / well educated . (all tending to see things through the same filters).... The brits originally tried to crack the Enigma machine using mathematicians (code breakers) but didn't get anywhere. Only by opening up the group to other different ways of thinking was the solution found (Deniston even placed a crossword in the newspapers and ran a competition to identify those that could crack it)