[aculeus]

The public has listened to years of stinging revelations detailing how the government tied its own hands in stopping the devastating attacks of September 11. It is an irresponsible violation of the public trust for members of Congress to weaken the Patriot Act or jeopardize the NSA terrorist surveillance program because of the same illusory theories that cost us so dearly before, or worse, for rank partisan advantage. If they do, and our country sustains yet another catastrophic attack that these antiterrorism tools could have prevented, the phrase "connect the dots" will resonate again--but this time it will refer to the trail of innocent American blood which leads directly to the Senate floor.

Ms. Burlingame, a former attorney, is the sister of Charles F. "Chic" Burlingame III, the pilot of American Airlines flight 77, which was crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.

[ballplayer]

This is a great column,I would like a Journalist to track the actual time line of the inception of this "Wall",I think you may find the Clinton Administration implemented this to prevent the FBI from communicating with the CIA so as to gum up the investigations of the Clintons getting Communist Chinese money into their campaign coffers.
This then led to the 9-11 tragedy,I think it is called the law of unintended consequences as if the Clintons really cared,but who wants to look at the Clintons corruption that caused all this anyway?