Hey, I was there from Wednesday until Saturday!
Dang! We should have gotten together - we could have hit Clinton's office, Boxer's office and finished off whacking Kerry and Schumer on the nose. What fun that would have been.
Former IL gov and 9/11 Commissioner Big Jim Thompson was two rows up on my flight from DC to Chicago. I started to go up and tell him how much I appreciated his slapping Richard Ben Veniste's ears during the 9/11 Commission hearings and his kindness to Condoleeza Rice. But then all I could think of was how the Commission refused to dump Gorelick and that they were wrong to suggest another level of bureacracy in an end all-be all single security chief. I figured I'd lay off him since I couldn't say a whole lot that was nice!