If 9/11 Was An Inside Job, What Do the Forewarnings Mean?

It is kind of a circular argument, isn't it? The forewarnings for 9/11 showed that the government knew it was coming, but they wanted the attacks to succeeed in a limited way and so they had to fix the operation so this would happen (MIHOP). Yet, if 9/11 was an inside job (or a MIHOP job), do the forewarnings mean anything?

To put it another way, what came first-- the forewarnings or the "MIHOP"?

I suspect the forewarnings do mean something and I also supect the MIHOP came first.

Very early warnings of Al Qaeda trying to mount something in the US must have tipped off intelligence agencies to some sort of attack, and from then on, most likely US agents (and other foreign agents) helped set up the attacks.

The major warnings for 9/11 a few months preceding and up to the attacks were almost certainly from honest CIA and FBI agents (and foreign intelligence agents) picking up the signs of the attack from the covert operatives engaged in setting up the attacks.

The forewarnings were the signs of the government trying to do its job-- in the face of a nasty government-sanctioned covert operation.