![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/338f9bec-268f-4f01-8424-3553393f2318.jpeg)
![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/gWmVEUZ94Z.png)
171·
9 days agoWhat’s more likely: a rather straight forward plot by a bunch of fanatical fundamentalist religious nut jobs bent on destroying the “godless American devils” supported by their equally fanatical fundamentalist nation state or an incredibly complicated plot by a third party? See, this is why Occam’s Razor exists.
It wasn’t really a failure of the intelligence community it was a failure of the Bush administration. Bush couldn’t believe his “friends” in Saudi Arabia would do anything to harm his administration, after all his family had had a long and profitable association with them for years.
Plus, at the time the Bush administration was up to its neck in scandals (anyone remember the Enron Scandal?). Bush’s popularity had cratered and it was looking increasingly like he would loose the midterms and Presidential elections.