"Thats's because those GED brains over at the NYPD think they're an extension of the military and walk around dressing up and playing war. "

I don't know anything about what is currently going on between NYPD and the FBI beyond what was in this article. This description sounds quite believable and consistent with that. However, in the past (again documented by people like Lance and Wright) one of the main problems that made cooperation difficult is that the FBI tends to act like total A-holes who take control of cases and refuse to share information or credit for arrests and prosecutions. That is a clear pattern for the FBI that goes all the way back to J Edgar and how his G-men would hog credit for high profile arrests. In my experience when there is a broken relationship between two overlapping organizations like this both sides usually share some blame.

"And the reality is that there was nothing no matter how much information or power they had on 9/11 that the NYPD could have done to stop the terrorist attacks. They were just as helpless and died like many of the brave civilians that day."

First of all let me make it clear I never meant to impugn the bravery of the NYPD before or after 9/11 or in any way diminish their sacrifice. However, I think your statement is too strong. First of all it certainly is logically possible that the cells hatching the plot could have been discovered. This was a major undertaking and in the past we have seen much smaller plots that were discovered and disrupted before they came to fruition. My opinion is that since we haven't yet had an honest accounting of what happened and why on 9/11 we don't know enough to say if it might have been preventable. For example, the FBI has a "wanted" web page for Osama Bin Laden but they do not have sponsoring 9/11 as one of the crimes they would try him for. http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm This isn't just an oversight. in a speech at the Commonwealth Club on April 19, 2002, FBI Director Robert Mueller said:" In our investigation, we have not uncovered a single piece of paper - either here in the United States, or in the treasure trove of information that has turned up in Afghanistan and elsewhere - that mentioned any aspect of the September 11 plot."

After Pearl Harbor FDR had an immediate investigation and sacked the army general responsible for the USAF at the port and the Admiral responsible for the port defenses. We need a similar kind of investigation that determines what happened, who sponsored it, and why so many leads were never followed up in order to make sure the same thing doesn't happen again.