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They buried the lead, as usual:

" But in December 2000, the FBI and FAA issued a classified threat assessment that played down the possibility of a threat to domestic aviation from terror operatives known to be in the United States.

"Terrorist activity within the U.S. has focused primarily on fund-raising, recruiting new members and disseminating propaganda," that report says. "While international terrorists have conducted attacks on U.S. soil, these acts represent anomalies in their traditional targeting which focuses on U.S. interests overseas."

The congressional intelligence inquiry's report suggests that this mind-set, less than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, may have contributed to an overall U.S. view that there was a low probability of attacks on American soil, particularly using aircraft as weapons. "

The FBI is going to get the blame, after all these theatrics.

What worries me, after watching Ben Venista (whom I remember well from Watergate), is that they plan to attempt an impeachment of GWB in the 2nd term. They must have polls that show they will lose and they need to marginalize the Republicans (again) for another 30 years. It won't work, but they will put the country thru it in their quest for a return to power.

Hopefully, it will backfire so badly that we will not hear them for decades.