I know for a fact that our intelligence agencies are far more competent than they pretend to be. There is a Schism within our government. One side beholden to the Constitution and the people, the other, to the uber elites, and the military industrial complex.
Unfortunately those who are beholden to goodness, the people, and our Constitution are being factored out. The new paradigm is a country that is a mega corporation, with absolute control over everything we see, hear, taste, touch, eat, drink and breathe.
For people to think for one moment, that our agencies are deficient in any way, is idiotic.
Here's why.
I moved from my old apartment, to my new place in 2005. We had a 3 week wait between moves due to the fact it was summer, and getting a truck was nearly impossible. Two days after I signed the lease, I was sent a letter from the Department Of The Army, telling me that my information was on the hard drive that went missing on that laptop that we read about and saw on the news.
The letter didn't come to the apartment that I was living in, it went to my NEW place, I wasn't even living in yet, and I hadn't notified anyone, nor had I filed a forwarding address slip with my post office.
If the Army can find me, a common citizen, then I'm pretty fucking sure they can find 20 terrorists, their sponsors and handlers. For ANYONE to tell me that our agencies were inept that day is utter horseshit.