Yes, of course, our "friends" from the Mossad dance team could have informed us. Almost leaves a person to wonder Osama, or Sharone did not place a call to warn us, or at least send an urgent memo thru their colleague Chertoff. Spook work is probably hectic work. Maybe Michael got the message but just forgot to tell us? Note to Michael: next time, could you perhaps tie a string around your finger to remind? This kind of stuff can be important. The dance ensemble was detained by some local NYPD officers. Guess what? They took them in, and once word spread up the command chain (most likely through Rudi to Chertoff) these "friends" -operatives, were released within 48 hours. Meanwhile, Ashcroft was quick to arrange a natinoal media event to gravely trumpet how gangs of our alphabet swat teams were swarming the streets of this nation, and had in fact already rounded up and incarcerated thousands of "suspects detained for further questioning". I can imagine the check list: if they have brown skin, cuff 'em, bring 'em in, lock 'em up. Bet you didn't know most of those thousands were released, sans media fanfare, within the subsequent month or two, did you? FYI, that tends to be a significant byproduct of a silent media; you don't know.
What about the apparent failures of some other friends theoretically closer to home in the domestic stew of NRO / ONI / NSA / CIA / FBI. Why didn't they inform us and spare the same lives? Then there is the matter to consider - ample reports that many abroad DID attempt to be our friends, from all over Europe. France, London, Germany, Australia all claim to have urgent notifications through the various channels DAYS prior to 09/11/01. Apparently these too were studiously ignorred on the receiving end here, likely by some of our same friends in NRO/NSA/CIA/FBI. And while we're at it, it took NORAD over 100 minutes to get airborn. These guys are supposed to be like professional super firefighters. They spend their lives having trained to wait around for "the call" and be in the air in under 4 minutes no matter what.
Then there's the widespread reports of the few individual FBI grunt workers across the country who did make great efforts to raise the alarm up the chain in their own offices and departments, only to be rebuffed, ignorred, and in some cases, eventually be reprimanded, smeared and fired for thier efforts as "those annoying whistle blowers". This may leave a lot of us to wonder, lebenty billions of dollars spent each year to build up all this massive, disgusting, far flung police state "security force", and in the end, only a hand full of them managed to do their actual job...? Up the command chain, these few instances may have left some higher ups really miffed at wondering - all of our tedious plans, how did we ever miss eliminating opportunity for even those few to leak word out to the public?; mental note for future plans - we must eliminate these annoying few leaks of Americans succeeding in doing their jobs and really screwing up our plans in the process!.
Ya know, this all tends to fit together and make sense if we consider - perhaps a lot of these alphabet guys - domestic & foreign, really are not our friends after all.