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...It’s the story of a clown who hates being a clown and wants to play Hamlet.” O’Keefe says. “He wants to be a real artist and he gets a new agent, who is of course a new agent of the devil…a sort of Dante’s Clown Inferno...
...will never be known whether the agents could have prevented the attacks if they had received the green light earlier, Rowley is quick to point out. "[But] it's at least possible we could have gotten lucky and uncovered one or two more of the terrorists in flight training prior to September 11th," Rowley wrote in her memo. And yet, three days after the attacks, Director Mueller expressed his shock that terrorists were training on U.S. soil: "The fact that there were a number of individuals that happened to have received training at flight schools here is news, quite obviously...
ROWLEY: [Stands up and bursts into applause] I don't care if you're an FBI agent or a priest or a government official. We are all human, and we are all susceptible to any number of vices and mistakes. All we can do is try to uncover and correct them...
...doubt that the lowest moment was 9/11. The towers hadn't fallen yet, and we were trying to finally get permission from headquarters to seek a search warrant [to get into the computer of Zacarias Moussaoui, who was indicted last December as a Sept. 11 co-conspirator]. This agent [said to me], "This is going to be just like the inquiry at Pearl Harbor. We are going to have to tell the truth...
...gone so soft she wakes up to Morning Edition, although she has to reset her clock radio every day because it refuses to stay tuned to npr. When she hits the treadmill in the exercise room, she watches tapes of her favorite TV show, 24, about a federal agent foiling a terrorist attack...