[Infowarrior] - 9/11: The Tapping Point

[Richard Forno]

September 2011

9/11: The Tapping Point

What if, two years before the 9/11 attacks—with the installation of a cell-phone-and-Internet system in Afghanistan—the U.S. had been handed complete access to al-Qaeda and Taliban calls and e-mails? A secret deal was in place in 1999, the author reveals, but Washington dropped the ball.

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http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/09/preventing-9-11-201109.print