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12.08.2005

Can We Have A Blue-Ribbon Panel On The Idiocy of the 9/11 Commission?

Not likely, but I propose Andrew McCarthy chair it:

How fitting that in its last not-so-official act of self-promotion, the commission has seen fit to grade out a report card on everybody else in government — even as it continues to tap dance around its own inexplicable derelictions of duty. These are most recently, but by no means exclusively, illustrated by the scandal over "Able Danger," the Defense Department's circa 1999-2001 data-mining intelligence project.

Though consciously ignored by the commission, whose key conclusions it contradicts, Able Danger appears to have identified Mohamed Atta and perhaps three other hijackers long before 9/11. Rep. Curt Weldon (R., Pa.) continues to press urgently for answers about what Able Danger found, why that intelligence was purged rather than acted on, and why the commission's purportedly comprehensive investigation omitted even a single mention of it. But while the commission has a lot to say about the performance of the Bush administration, Congress, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and other federal agencies, introspection is not, shall we say, its strong suit.


The 9/11 Commission stands as a stark example of exactly how unserious the Washington Establishment and their media lapdogs are when it comes to the greatest challenge of our time, the War on Terror.

After Pearl Harbor, there was a sober and serious review of how exactly the Japanese managed to pull off the destruction of our Pacific fleet. People were singled out and punished. They were not invited to sit on the panel, as Democratic hack and first-rate idiot Jamie Gorelick was.

Did it ever make lick of sense to insist that American intelligence agencies NOT share information?

Only if you're rooting for the bad guys.

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