Alternate History.

Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader is sure that many of you already were aware of this blog by Gregg Easterbrook. Your Maximum Leader didn't read it until today, and later found that the great Glenn Reynolds had already linked to it.

Easterbrook writes an interesting peice. Your Maximum Leader was giving lots of thought to the very question of "what if we had known enough about the 9/11 attacks to stop them?" over the weekend. Your Maximum Leader, contra Bob Kerrey and Richard Ben-Veniste, doesn't believe that there were clear actionable indications of the 9/11 attacks available to decision-makers before the attacks occured. A rather plausible case can be made that had intelligence gathering/analysis been under a different organizational structure, we may have known more. But even that is doubtful.

Carry on.