Describing and SynthesizingCould We Have Stopped It

On September 11 2001, a blow to the solidarity and security of our nation occurred the likes that it had not felt in over fifty years. There is not an American alive that will ever forget the tragedy that happened, all of us that can remember that day will always know exactly where and what we were doing when it happen. I was a Intelligence Analyst for the United States Marine Corps sitting at my desk watch the events unfold, all I could think of is how could this happen, and could we have prevented it. Being part of the Intelligence community it struck deep at the heart of what we do, if our job was done right we may have prevented it. Could we have? is the question that will be debated for years, was it the numerous agencies fault for overlooking signs and threats, or the bureaucratic layers and non-sense that tied the agencies down not allowing them to complete their mission.
The national as a whole missed a lot of the warning signs; the first bombing of the World Trade Cen...