text: No, EP, that's just typical scapegoating.
  
  ...And ample intelligence was not supplied to him beforehand.  Ample information was in multiple places, but there was no one collection of this information, nor the capacity to integrate it in a timely way to develop a real threat assessment.
  
  TLDR: it's easy for us to see in retrospect, since we know an attack happened.  That's backcasting.