Mangling the 9/11 Commission's Report By Thomas Patrick Carroll FrontPageMagazine.com | June 21, 2004 The contrast is stark. On the one hand we have the 9/11 Commission’s latest report, Overview of the Enemy, a detailed history of al Qaeda. Like the Commission’s other public statements, it’s informative and worth reading. On the other, there is the response to the report from the mass media. Here we find a truly astounding conceptual mess, even when measured against the Fourth Estate’s own generously self-forgiving standards. Dan Froomkin of The Washington Post nicely sums up this intellectual bus plunge. “Yesterday,” Froomkin wrote on...