It is interesting reading and thanks for the ping.
I am wondering how Ashcroft would respond to this author. Ashcroft blamed Gorelick's wall of separation memo as a primary reason that intelligence agencies didn't share information.
Whether over zealous attorneys mis-read that memo or not remains to be seen, but since Congress seems reluctant to investigate this matter, we probably won't ever know.
I was thinking the VERY same thing.
Do you remember which law was cited by Erik Kleinsmith, the guy who claimed that he was the one who deleted the info? I think it was a statute that limited the retention of info on civilians to 90 days. This seems to be totally in opposition to the EO 12333.