Elonka wrote:

] I'm curious as well. However, I don't read "abnormal purchase
] activity" and come to the conclusion, "Bush knew."

I think he knew because he was getting briefings about hijackings and spectacular terrorist attacks in the coming weeks. And that's just what you can find in a cursory search of news articles. I find it hard to believe he didn't know it was coming. I do look forward to Rice's testimony next week. If nobody asks her more detail about the August 6th briefing or if she cries "national security, can't answser" I think I'm going to puke.

] *Somebody* probably did though, and as carefully as the attack was
] planned, it wouldn't surprise me that Al Qaeda would have also
] used it as a moneymaking opportunity. Further, it gives the
] Patriot Act even more weight, to consider that tracking
] unusual purchase activity like that could help thwart another
] attack.

PROMIS would have picked this unusual activity up and raised the red flags. We never needed the Patriot act for this. The technology has been in place since the 80's for financial market event correlation.

] http://www.snopes.com/rumors/putcall.htm

Cool, thanks, that's a good link. I never thought to check Snopes. Althought it is kind of disheartening to me that this was even considered an urban legend. Is it that far out of the realm of possibility? Have these issues all been reduced to mere entertainment/curiosity vale? Nevertheless, maybe someone will chance across it there and say, "Hmm..."

Oh, I had the #'s mixed up, it was Merrill Lynch that had the 12000 put options not Morgan Stanley:

http://www.hereinreality.com/insidertrading.html

So, I've mentioned WTC7 in a couple of thread discussions with you but I haven't read you comment on it. What do you make of the WTC7 collapse?

RE: Bush Agrees to Let Rice Testify Publicly