From my reading of the ThinThread program we're not talking about a post-hoc analysis.
Thinthread ... was one of the first things
Michael Hayden's NSA got rid of
...
Was your programme, Thinthread, ready for 9/11?
"Yes, actually it was ready in November 2000
So if you look at that, then ThinThread, was available to the NSA before 9/11 but canceled for (ostensibly) political, ideological, and possibly corrupt reasons. Maybe incompetence?
(Corrupt may be too strong, if there is a softer term like "crony-ist" or selfish / self-interest it might be more appropriate. But then, seeing the number of lives lost due to the failure to prevent 9/11, maybe corrupt isn't too strong at all)
You have declared that after 9/11 you heard the
high echelons of the NSA saying: we can milk this
cow for the next 15 years. What did they mean?
"They meant: we can keep the money flowing for
the next 15 years to keep programs running.
Though - if they are really willfully incompetent in order to keep funding their operation that certainly looks bad.
(Corrupt may be too strong, if there is a softer term like "crony-ist" or selfish / self-interest it might be more appropriate. But then, seeing the number of lives lost due to the failure to prevent 9/11, maybe corrupt isn't too strong at all)
Though - if they are really willfully incompetent in order to keep funding their operation that certainly looks bad.