The Gopher State And the (Alleged) 20th Hijacker

The Rake finds the Minnesota angle in the 9/11 saga, with a profile of Clancy Prevost, the Pan Am flight instructor who tipped off the FBI about suspicious student Zacarias Moussaoui. Writer Dean Staley keeps throwing in boilerplate about how we have to put ourselves back in that pre-9/11 mindset to understand why people overlooked so many clues, but the impression I got was how quickly, and on what scant evidence, Prevost started to form his suspicions. A guy with no law enforcement connection, working for a private company that was under some financial pressure just to take Massaoui's money and not ask questions, still ended up being instrumental in the only domestic 9/11-related indictment to date. There's some kind of lesson there, but I'm not sure what it is.