Heads should have rolled... 3,000 innocents paid the price.... the same target was attacked before... reports of airliners to be used as bombs since 1995... an informant in the PI's spills the beans ...and still nothing is done? This was the bigggest intelligence failure since Pearl Harbor... You sure as hell shouldn't trust the same folks again.
It's not an issue of trusting anyone for me. It was an issue of failed leadership and focus from the top down combined with a system that both by structure and laws was bound to fail, particularly from a non-state based threat.
Now if Weldon is going to show that someone deliberately stuffed and destroyed intelligence about training camps, illegal funding, plots, networks and otherwise prevented this threat from becoming part of the national dialog and focus of leadership, then that's a story. But right now all I have heard is that data mining uncovered Atta's name. Zaid said at the hearing that there was no information that would have led anyone to believe that criminal activity was taking place or that specific terrorist activities were being planned. How is that anything but a failure from the top to set priorities, failure of imagination of the possibilities and more evidence of the problem with the so called wall?
Finally, while I put enormous blame on Clinton, I think Weldon talking about his discovery of Able Danger in 1999 and how they had information that the CIA didn't is more damning evidence than what he's now chasing. How many in Congress detected and worked to overcome the wall and the disjointed intelligence operations they both funded and oversaw? How many articulated the threat we were up against?