Talk:John P. O'Neill

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Just curious: Where does the material about O'Neill's involvement in capturing Ramzi Yousef come from? Are there people, articles, to refer to about this? I would like to know more. Is there additional material? -RK

Can this be put among the external links? --Striver 19:27, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't see any point, since it but partially duplicates the more comprehensive pre-existing link listed:

• Who Killed John O'Neill, free movie on 9/11 CIA background scenario from Ty Rauber and Ryan Thurston, length 1:40, mainly b/w

--KGF0 ( T | C ) 10:01, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

This article seems to me to have a negative bias towards John P. O'Neill. Sep,8,06

Its hard to explain why a man was good enough to get a head of an US intelligence service. Even only a few internals might really know why, but surely arent allowed to talk about it. Think about, bad news more often makes it to the masses. Good news rarely does. Pure data, like a CV, is most often dusty and boring information. Only if you are able to wake that "papers" up to live by some means you will be able to improve the balancing. Quotes from others, unveiled hidden links or the involvement in creation of true history would make a difference. Hard job - and i really dont know if thats a path that leads to somewhere or just vanishes somewhere whilst trying to go it. It's sort of a tragic story so far, but you cant change the facts, not even because you whished it for that long term official. The Wikipedia designed to collect informations and bring it into an adequate form, not to alter it on desire. --Alexander.stohr 21:35, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

"the Bush administration's head-in-sand 'approach'" strikes me as not quite NPOV.SuperToad64 16:48, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

"Militants"

Is there a reason why terrorists are called militants in this article? Mere "militancy" is not a crime. patsw 01:19, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Unlikely

Am I the only one who thinks the circumstances of this guy's death is one of the most unlikely events that have ever happened in modern memory? Seriously? What are the odds? Seriously. VolatileChemical 12:31, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

The odds are quite high actually Nil Einne (talk) 19:28, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Christopher Hitchens said of him "It's the nearest I've ever got in real life in a study to the Sherlock Holmes / Moriarty global mutual combat. Unfortunately only one of them falls into the Reichenbach, so far." 58.147.58.28 (talk) 03:16, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

the odds are that your government is an arm of a secret sect that has vied for power for centuries, using the main conflicts over the past 2000 years as a means and the name of god as a justification.

if you want Their (her) name it would be The Whore of Revelation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.91.33.241 (talk) 00:11, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

HOW CAN I BECOME AN FBI AT THE AGE OF 14 OR AT WHAT AGE IS IT REQUERT??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.122.51.115 (talk) 18:14, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

This entire entry on John Oneill is weak at best. While many people know of the FBI agents in Arizona and Minnesota who warned of pilots training, few americans are aware of a man who warned for years of weakness and failure in investigating El Qaeda by the FBI, Whitehouse, CIA, Pentagon and the Saudi. When it came to the Saudis he stopped asking to interview people in their hands since they more often than not cut off there heads before oneill could interview them. Renegade agent or not he tried to do his job while others looked away as the deadly events of 9-11 developed in front of their very closed eyes. Magilla gorilla. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.129.203.181 (talk) 04:38, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Why can't there be a debate, between the 9/11 truthers and the people who did the official 9/11 investigation. the word official is bullocks. makes it sound liek the authority has mandated the truth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.238.192.41 (talk) 06:24, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Frontline

The number of hits registered has increased from a few hundred to 9000 after the broacast of the Frontline show. Path to 9/11 miniseries essentially told the same story. Both stories portray dedicated people who were on the trail of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers and Al Queda but were thwarted by bureacracy with tragic results. The Frontline piece in particular drew a map showing connections uncovered by o'Neils work, but gives the impression that powerful forces wanted o'Neill forced out and emerging intelligence kept away from him before he could fully uncover the emerging plot. Redhanker (talk) 07:18, 1 September 2011 (UTC)