David Talbot in Salon:
To be fair, it does seem like some steps were taken by the Bush
administration after it learned of the bin Laden threat. For instance,
as CBS News reported last summer, in the weeks before 9/11
Attorney General John Ashcroft was suddenly advised to fly
exclusively on private jets instead of commercial airliners after
receiving a "threat assessment" from his FBI security detail.
Unfortunately for the passengers of United Airlines Flights 93 and
175 and American Airlines Flights 11 and 77, they were not given
the same option.
