For goodness sake, don't ever think the 9-ll Commission will die a natural death. Not as long as there's a camera rolling, not as long as the members keep fame, glory, and CYA "I told you so", as their top priorities.
Just for the record, the following CBS News report helped me understand this "what they knew and when they knew it" crap shoot, a little better:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/09/terror/main769440_page2.shtml
excerpt: "...Despite the conflict over who knew about Atta and when, (CBS News Correspondent Wyatt) ) Andrews reports that most experts say that this kind of information would be shared today. Under the 9/11 intelligence reforms, Pentagon agents are now allowed to tip off the FBI to suspected terrorists.
The Justice Department inspector general said in a report released in June that the FBI missed at least five opportunities before the Sept. 11 attacks to piece together vital intelligence information about the terrorists. Inspector General Glenn Fine called it “a significant failure” that hindered the FBI's chances of preventing the attacks."
Now they will spin it as some clumsy mistake and the media will not question Gorelick's role in forbidding agencys from sharing information about terrorists. If there was a rumor that Bolton got a parking ticket 10 years ago the media would be very inquisitive and the NYT would run a 10-part investigative article about it. The Clinton administration made policies that protected terrorists and contributed to 9/11 and the mainstream media will show no curiosity about this or about the 911 Commission covering it up.