[playball0]

No leadership. No reponsibility for the consequences of their policies. No review that orders were implemented properly. La-dee-da. La-dee-da. Move on. Nothing to see here.

Counter-terrorism was not the goal of the Clinton Justice Department as they interpreted it. Their primary job, it seems, was convicting terrorists even though counter-terrorism was mandated by Congress to be their responsibility.

It just slipped through the cracks. It's just institutional sloppiness. Tell it to the 3000 families, who had loved ones killed, because of their gross malfeasance.

[jla]

fyi

[playball0]

That's no responsibility.

[AFPhys]

I've managed to read about a quarter of the 911 Report thus far.

I'm amazed that this unbelievably partisan group was able to write something as strong as this is.

Far from whitewashing things, it was very clear in stating the difficulties everywhere in the pre-911 world. Their recommendations appear well thought out, and will likely be easily implemented despite the cries of some of the ACLU crowd.

Nobody can interpret it as being anti-Bush, or as saying that President Bush has been acting improperly with respect to terrorism. They as much as state that we must have a preemptive posture against all of them, and specifically against radical Islamists, in every way, and wherever they reside.

It is possible to interpret it as quite critical of Clinton. One wonders what they might have said had Berger not lifted several copies of the early draft report of the Millennium incident. I suspect he succeeded in his intent by his theft, though.

UNANIMOUS CONSENT by this panel without even a dissenting footnote by one of them. Clearly what they heard behind closed doors was very powerful indeed, and completely squashed those who might have been Bush's critics.

[buffyt]

Including the loss of our own beloved Freeper BKO... Barbara Olson. Such a sweet, warm, nice woman. She put everyone else at ease with her gentle, friendly way.

[secretagent]

Thanks for posting this, but I don't see the whitewashing.

The report confines itself here to detailing what happened, and makes a complicated process understandable.

The blame for "the wall' can happen later. First I want to know what happened.