well, okay. lets say the government knew that the attacks were going to happen. according to p4b's post 87,000 flights would be in the air on that particular day. pick 4 and try and get lucky. take it a step further and say that they knew the exat flight number airline and destination of the planes. were they just goind to shoot them down over civilian populations? even one step further and say they planned it. we have all had to deal with someone who couldn't keep their mouth shut about what we did at parties and such, if we can't keep a relitivley small group of people from leaking information how is the government supposed to? if, and if is a very big word to be 2 letters long, they planned it then i think that it would be a very difficult task, probably impossible to keep everyone quite about it. someone would either wanna be the hero or just want their face on the tv. i don't know. people are by nature very self serving, and politicians even more so. if somone on capitol hill thought they could get ahead by screwing evryone else what make you think they would sit idly by and let that oppertunity pass? hell maybe the government did plan it. but if they did, that means we have to give the Bush administration credit for pulling off the biggest farce in history, and that would mean that they were smart and we all know thats not true. right? lol