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I have spent the last four days in a special workshop to teach educators how to teach Advanced Placement students for courses which can potentially gain the student actual college credit upon passing a national test with a certain set of scores. The class is extremely difficult to teach and even tougher on the kids. Part of the class (taught be uber liberals but fair and balanced which I admired) entailed watching a FRONT LINE episode (available from WGBH in Boston for about $25) titled The Man Who Knew.

This was the true story of JOHN O'NEIL the FBI senior agent who had hunted Osama bin Laden way before he became a household name. This video is absolutely horrifying in it's implications, many of which proved well founded in the 911 Commission report. The cops in the Bureau were resistant to terrorist hunting pre-911. They were so resistant, they set up O'Neil and forced him to retire in August of 2001. His new job paid upwards of $365,000 and he started right away. He became the Chief of Security for the World Trade Center and he once mused that he always felt OBL wanted to finish the job and if they tried he wanted to be there. He died in a stairwell in Tower Two.