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Check it and do the math on your own: Inside the failed Air Force scramble to prevent the Sept. 11 attacks “Just why did the U.S. fail to prevent and predict the 9/11 attacks? And why did the CIA claim that Iraq, under Saddam Hussein, had weapons of mass destruction? In a new book, “A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies,” investigative journalist James Bamford takes the Bush administration to task for allegedly weakening American defenses and for trying to justify the invasion of Iraq by making connections between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. He also criticizes the CIA for its role in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Bamford was invited on the “Today” show to discuss his book. Here’s an excerpt, in which Bamford describes the doomed attempt to intercept the two planes that plowed into the World Trade Center:

Read the stupid questions to missing history here. All you gotta do is read the archives and use your mind. It is of the opinion of one Classified Humanity editor that much of what we think about the world has largely been contrived.

July 8th, 1980

August 10th, 1971

July 28th, 1967

November 18th, 1958

January 5th, 1950

July 5th, 1948

“The only puzzle not yet solved in connection with the gyrocopter is that of safe landing.” D’oh.

Also see: wiki page for Berliner’s helicopters

May 22nd, 1920

There are almost too many stories about the arrival of Charles Lindbergh in Seattle to keep track of for this week of early September 1927. This ad kind of encapsulates the historical differences between travel now and travel then, be it by air or rail.

September 12th, 1927